Five things you need to know, and a last echo of a tech legacy

Five things you need to know, and a last echo of a tech legacy

Good morning, Boston. Here are the five things you need to know in local business news to start your Friday. The roller-coaster ride of Trump tariffs continued yesterday as the president hiked tariffs on China once again, sending stocks for many Massachusetts companies down the chute after a brief recovery the day prior.  Eli Lilly and Co. continues to expand its reach in the local life sciences industry, this time with a $41 million investment …

Washington's barriers will push exporting countries with much lower production costs than their European competitors to redirect their production to the Community market Read

Morning ‘Jackass’ Scarborough Forced to Walk Back ‘I Told You So’ on Stock Market Panic

MSNBC host Joe Scarborough is having a rough day. The same media schlub who waved around the “I told you so” foam finger when stocks whipsawed on April 7 over President Donald Trump’s tariffs is doing the backstroke now after the markets surged just a day later. “I spent three months after the election warning Republicans they needed to be careful. Three months. I've got -- we've got about ten minutes of clips we could play you,” boasted a snoot…

SIU instructor, former importer-exporter talks supply chain, tariffs, and impacts on consumer

Amid talks of tariffs and international trade wars, one Southern Illinois University professor is working to clarify how consumers may find their shopping habits and retirement funds impacted — and what they can do to prepare.

What Trump just cost America

Instead of making it the whole industrial world against China, the president made it America against the whole industrial world and China.

Ruben Navarrette: 15 truths about tariffs

As you have likely figured out, President Donald Trump loves tariffs. It’s just too bad the businessman doesn’t understand them — and the destruction they cause.