by jpitney | Jan 24, 2026 | Economic Policy, Trade
Katherine Li at Business Insider: The CEO of Amazon, Andy Jassy, told CNBC in an interview with reporter Becky Quick at the World Economic Forum in Davos that vendors are running out of stockpiled goods imported ahead of Trump’s tariffs, and that consumers will...
by jpitney | Jan 20, 2026 | Economic Policy, Trade
Tom Fairless at WSJ Americans, not foreigners, are bearing almost the entire cost of U.S. tariffs, according to new research that contradicts a key claim by President Trump and suggests he might have a weaker hand in a reemerging trade war with Europe. Trump has...
by jpitney | Jan 19, 2026 | Economic Policy, Europe, Trade
Ana Swanson at NYT: [There] is little evidence in the data to support the idea that tariffs are conveying broad economic benefits. U.S. growth has been strong in recent months, but economists say that has been driven primarily by the boom in artificial intelligence....
by jpitney | Jan 12, 2026 | Economic Policy, Trade
After cogitating a bit on the December jobs data, I’m increasingly convinced that the job market is struggling, and the broader economy is fragile, in big part due to U.S. tariffs. There has been no job growth (and likely job declines after all the revisions are in),...
by jpitney | Dec 19, 2025 | Economic Policy, Taxes, Trade
Don Wolfensberger: It was one thing to think that tariffs on foreign imports was a foreign policy issue, not directly affecting average Americans. It was quite another to realize it was really a tax on goods purchased by U.S. businesses and consumers. While both...
by jpitney | Oct 24, 2025 | Canada, Reagan, Trade
Ronald Reagan, Radio Address to the Nation on the Canadian Elections and Free Trade Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/253108 This week, as we prepared for Thanksgiving, Canada held an...
