With the presidential election weeks away and still looking like a true toss-up, we face the very real prospect of a second Trump administration. With that in mind, it makes sense to ask how Trump's ...

Many analysts have interpreted Trump’s protectionist stance, and the United States’ imposition of tariffs, as economically irrational. If the liberal motto was once that “under free trade everybody ...

President Donald Trump issued his executive order on regulating imports via "reciprocal tariffs" on April 2, which has been paused, substantially amended, or walked back in the two weeks since, ...

If we look closely at the history of trade, we see that it is far from beautiful. Today, free trade is as commonplace as the air we breathe, but most of modern history was dominated by protectionist ...

Instead of antagonizing world leaders, perhaps President Donald Trump should consider emulating some of them. There are few better role models today than Javier Milei, Argentina’s colorful president.

The U.S. Supreme Court has struck down protectionist state wine and liquor laws on the grounds that they illegally discriminated against out-of-state wineries and out-of-state alcohol retailers. Yet ...

Herbert Hoover signed the retaliatory Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930, and it only made the Great Depression worse. Mark Benedict Barry Library of Congress Protectionism doesn’t work, and history ...

"The Reagan Administration's trade policy became clear: Espouse free trade but find an excuse on every occasion to embrace the opposite," wrote David Stockman, budget director for the Reagan ...

Ford CEO Jim Farley has a question about President Donald Trump’s threatened tariffs on imports from Mexico, Canada, and China: Why stop there? Farley said in a conference call Wednesday that Trump’s ...

TOPSHOT - An employee operates on a forging with protective gear at the Framatome Creusot forge, in Le Creusot, central France on March 3, 2023. - As she visited the Framtome site, the French Minister ...