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How Tariffs are Hurting Free Markets and Helping the Wrong Leaders
Donald Trump’s 25% tariffs and aggressive trade policies are backfiring.
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Alan Joel
Reciprocal Tariff Ignorance
President Trump continues to pursue his misguided tariff crusade believing that he is somehow protecting American industries and employment.
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Alan Joel
Can You Trust a President Who Dismisses His Own Laws Without a Thought?
The "best agreement we've ever made" suddenly isn't
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Alan Joel
Ignoring the Lessons of Economic History Have Punishing Costs
Why Trump’s Tariffs Will Backfire Again
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Alan Joel
Tariffs are Not Pro-Growth
How can protectionists like Trump and his allies not understand that tariffs are destructive?
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Alan Joel
Who Cares About Economists Anyway?
Multiple news outlets in tandem have declared that roughly ⅔ of economists think Trump’s policies will worsen inflation more than Kamala’s will, with…
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Alan Joel
Here's Why We're Struggling
America's Economic Crisis Unveiled
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Alan Joel
The Gender Pay Gap Myth is Still a Fallacy
Phil Gramm and John Early did a great job recently refuting the persistent concept of a gender pay gap in the Wall Street Journal.
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Alan Joel
How Did 17 Prize-winning Economists Get It So Wrong?
They had one job
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Alan Joel
Inflation is Still Inflation
President Biden and his cohorts in the White House have been making the point recently that things are good now that inflation has come way down from…
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Alan Joel
Calculating the True Cost of Raising Revenue
It’s kind of disgusting that when Congress talks about raising tax revenue, all the CBO thinks about and includes in their analyses is gross revenue…
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Alan Joel
Trade is a Technology
Don Boudreaux is one of the authors of Cafe Hayek, a fantastic, long-running newsletter on economics.
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Alan Joel
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