Editors note: Trade intervention policy is now shifting to include currency. The Trump administration is proposing tariffs on goods from countries found to have undervalued

Editor’s note: Providing immediate relief to family farms and ranches is a good move because the rural economy is in very, very bad shape. Trade

Editors note: Further evidence that offshoring our industry to China is bad for the environment. Rogue emissions of a gas that harms the ozone layer

Editor’s note. This is a problem. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) blocked a bipartisan attempt to limit Chinese companies from contracting with U.S. transit

Editor’s note: Curtis Ellis clearly lays out why the China trade issue is not a mere commercial dispute.  Why exactly did progress toward a U.S.-China

Editor’s note: This is another example economists falsely equating global trade growth, regardless of imbalances or cheating, with the prosperity of real people. The world

Excerpt:[Rob Scott (EPI)] argued that the “single best tool” the U.S. has for reducing its deficit is to lower the value of the U.S. dollar.“The dollar

Editor’s note: The administration’s Huawei tech restriction starts to bite. Bigly.  Chinese tech giant begins to feel impact of U.S. curbs on its access to

Editors note: An interesting article on Adam Smith’s criteria for applying tariffs. Exclusive: Curtis Ellis quotes ‘father of free markets’ in defending move on China

Excerpt: “We (myself included) sold ourselves an optimistic, American-centric, fantasy version of China that has never existed – and will likely never exist.” Trade tensions