Trade structured to support production raises productivity, and rising productivity raises the incomes that fund consumption durably, out of earnings instead of borrowing. That is the only durable answer to the cost-of-living crisis: paychecks that can carry the price of housing, healthcare, and childcare.
One year after Liberation Day, the most aggressive tariff escalation since 2018, the United States collected just half of what its own policy prescribes.
The AI data center buildout has exposed three distinct failures in U.S. trade and industrial policy.
Without secure upstream API and 6-APA production, the United States does not have true antibiotic supply security. With the right policy framework and close coordination with European partners, we can rebuild domestic capacity, strengthen allied production, and secure essential medicines for the long term.
The report finds that the CPA Domestic Market Share Index (DMSI) – which measures the share of U.S. demand served by domestic producers – rebounded in 2025 as Section 232 tariffs and other industrial policies began to reshape the competitive landscape for American industry.
The CPA Domestic Market Share Index (DMSI) has rebounded sharply in 2025, signaling that U.S. tariffs are beginning to restore domestic production’s share of the American market.
Founded in Benton Harbor, Michigan, in 1911, Whirlpool has spent more than a century building appliances on American soil while its competitors either left for cheaper production overseas or were sold outright to foreign buyers.
One year after Liberation Day, the U.S. manufacturing sector is showing some significant early signs of resurgence. The industrial base is not yet fully rebuilt, and the recovery remains uneven across sectors, but the early signs are encouraging.
The race to commercialize nuclear fusion will define the next era of geopolitical power. By one estimate, a single glass of fusion fuel carries the energy equivalent of one million gallons of oil, enough to power a home for more than 800 years.
A recent 60 Minutes segment gave the Cato Institute a platform to argue that America’s shipbuilding crisis proves protectionist industrial policy has failed. The opposite is true: the crisis is the product of four decades without an industrial policy.
