Tariffs and Revenues

Jessica Riedl at WP: [E]conomists generally agree that trade wars harm long-term economic growth by limiting consumer options, raising costs, reducing investment capital and killing jobs in industries that suffer from foreign retaliation. This slowdown in the growth...

Economic Policy 2028

Robert Zoellick at WSJ: After the Trump-Biden era fades into history, which party will offer an alternative to costly, backward-looking industrial policies? While Vice President JD Vance lectures Europeans on democracy and philosophizes about state-led capitalism,...

Tariff Impact Takes Time

Tariffs aren’t instant inflation. Goods take a month at sea, another in customs, and more time in storage. Then you work through the storerooms that businesses filled ahead of time. Only then do new costs hit shelves. So yes, tariffs raise prices—just not right away....

Tariffs and Construction

Alex Ford and Jiachuan Wu at NBC: An NBC News analysis of building materials and import data found that the total cost of building a mid-range single-family home could rise by more than $4,000 — an estimate that industry experts who reviewed the analysis called...

Steel and Aluminum

Phil Gramm and Donald Boudreaux at WSJ: Because steel and aluminum are crucial in manufacturing, anything close to a 50% tariff will drive up the cost of U.S. manufactured products dramatically. That will harm consumers, make U.S. manufactured products far less...

Powell on Tariffs

Fed Chair Jerome Powell: Policy changes continue to evolve, and their effects on the economy remain uncertain. The effects of tariffs will depend, among other things, on their ultimate level. Expectations of that level, and thus of the related economic effects,...