All your Trump tariff questions, answered.

Making Sense of Trump's Tariffs ⋆ Brownstone Institute

Making Sense of Trump’s Tariffs by Ramesh Thakur at Brownstone Institute Donald Trump’s entire political history is a cautionary tale against confusing elite and media fury for heartland sentiment. A certain strategic coherence and a common tactic unite Trump’s domestic and foreign policies in pursuit of the overarching goal of making America great again.  The bigger concern is not that there’s no method to his apparent madness, but that the imp…

President Donald Trump and Chairman Mao - LewRockwell

I’ve never met Donald Trump nor had any dealings with him, and since I don’t watch television, I’d barely paid attention to his antics until his unexpectedly strong run for the White House began attracting heavy media coverage in 2015. But some time ago I was privately meeting on other matters with one of Trump’s powerful and influential backers when Trump’s name happened to come up. Since I tend to be forthright and speak candidly about most th…

MSNBC hosts burst into laughter at Trump official's inability to answer tariff questions

Donald Trump's treasury secretary's inability to answer questions about the president's sweeping tariffs announcement on Tuesday drew gales of laughter from the hosts on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Friday morning.The segment began with a Comedy Central "The Daily Show" montage of clips of billionaire-t...

All your Trump tariff questions, answered.

Good morning! It’s Thursday, April 3, 2025. Election Day 2026 is 579 days away. Thanks for waking up to politics.President Trump holding up his tariff executive order. (Photo by the White House)President Donald Trump imposed sweeping new tariffs on Wednesday, throwing the global financial system into uncertainty and establishing higher trade barriers than the U.S. has erected in more than a century. Trump dubbed the announcement “Liberation Day.…

As Global Economy Imploded, Trump’s Cash Register Was Going Ka-Ching

Investigative reporters at the New York Times–Eric Lipton, Theodore Schleifer, and Zoltan-Youngs, with assistance from Maggie Haberman– were watching the busy scene at Mar-a-Lago during the brief period when Trump announced draconian tariffs on other economies (but not Russia, North Korea, Belarus or Cuba), but before his decision to postpone the tariffs for 90 days. Trump demonstrated that he could rattle the global economy with a statement, th…

How Trump is misusing emergency powers in his tariffs policy

10th April 2025 A good way to commentate is to start with a puzzle: something that does not make sense – or at least does not make sense at first glance. And one puzzle about the tariff policy of Donald Trump is why he as president is devising general United States trade policy himself, by a sequence of what can only be called decrees. This is a puzzle because the constitution of the United States expressly provides that trade policy is for Con…