Michael Hicks: History, data tells us tariffs would cause a recession

'What are you doing?' Conservative fears recession unless Congress stops 'lunatic' Trump

As tariff threats continued to pummel market numbers Wednesday, political commentator and Atlantic Senior Editor David Frum offered a dire prediction on what the endgame will eventually look like.“It ends probably with a recession,” Frum told MSNBC “Deadline White House” anchor Nicolle Wallace. “It ends with probably the next Congress trying to remove some of the tariff authority from Donald Trump's hands, and they may or may not be successful. …

Michael Hicks: History, data tells us tariffs would cause a recession

Editor’s note: Opinion content expressed by columnists is solely the opinion of that person and not the Daily Journal. The GOP is vacillating between contradictory claims that President Trump’s tariffs are either negotiating tactics designed to end tariffs everywhere or a long-term strategy to onshore U.S. manufacturing. We have no evidence that either approach has worked anytime, anywhere in the past 250 years. Assuming this time isn’t differen…

Some Clarification About Tariffs - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

As I write this, I have no idea what the final structure of President Trump’s tariff policy will be. So far, it has been on-again, off-again. But some of the

Michael Hudson - Trump’s Inverted View of America’s Tariff History - Brave New Europe

A completely different take on Trump’s tariffs Michael Hudson is an American economist, a professor of economics at the University of Missouri–Kansas City, and a researcher at the Levy Economics Institute at Bard College. He is a former Wall Street analyst, political consultant, commentator, and journalist. You can read more of Hudson’s economic history on the Observatory Cross-posted from Michael’s website Image by Lux Enigma from Pixabay Donal…