Gene Healy For four months, President Trump has treated the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) as his personal, Oval Office “tariff button”—allowing...
Dominik Lett The White House has sent a special spending cut package to Congress requesting $9.4 billion in rescissions to foreign aid and federally funded media...
Joe Bishop-Henchmen President Donald Trump joins Presidents John Quincy Adams (1828), John Tyler (1842), Benjamin Harrison (1890), and Herbert Hoover (1930) in enacting a...
Michael Chapman Frédéric Bastiat (1801–1850) (Image: LefontQ on Wikimedia Commons.) To understand the folly of protectionism, including the use of tariffs, there is perhaps...
Alan Reynolds (Photo: historyonthenet.com) Benjamin M. Anderson was a legendary Austrian economist at Chase National Bank from 1929 to 1939, then a UCLA economist...
Chris Edwards President Trump’s anti-market impulses are taking center stage this week with his damaging tariff policies. But the president is occasionally supportive of...
Kyle Handley Recent critiques of international economics may surprise many actual economists. The latest rap against my profession is that we economists were too...
Adam N. Michel After five rounds of voting, the pass-through tax deduction was chosen as the worst tax expenditure. The 20 percent business deduction...
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