Few expected him to go so far. In a stunning shift in American economic policy, Donald Trump has yanked up tariffs across the board. On April 2nd, speaking from the Rose Garden of the White House ...

Consumer sentiment fell 11% this month to a reading of 57.9, a preliminary reading showed, down from last month’s reading of 64.7 and reaching its lowest level since November 2022. That’s a ...

The indefatigable American consumer has managed to regularly surprise economic doomsayers in recent years. Real personal consumption expenditure has remained strong and steady during much of the ...

The unspoken answer was that an American “empire” had foisted ... against Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Economic warfare is the new normal, and Fishman sees no signs ...

In his Inaugural Address he spoke admiringly of President William McKinley, who pushed for huge tariffs in the 1890s, and he argued that the period was a high point for American economic policy.