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Mar 11 2020
Opinion
Coronavirus shows Donald Trump was right all this time about China
Donald Trump has been insisting for years that our country has been too economically dependent on China, so it is sad that it took a global public health crisis to prove he was right all this time. When he began imposing strategic tariffs on China in response to its long history of abusive trade practices, the liberals all of a sudden became free trade fundamentalists, predicting that this new
Guest Writer - RightJun 29 2019
News
Trump to allow U.S. firms to sell technology to Huawei and promises farmers they would win from new talks, in wide-ranging news conference
President Trump on Saturday agreed to scale back restrictions on Chinese technology giant Huawei and delay new tariffs from going into effect against Chinese goods as part of an effort to restart trade talks with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. The major concessions, which came on the sidelines of the Group of 20 summit, came after more than a month of acrimonious fighting between two of the world’
Washington PostAug 23 2019
News
US stocks fall sharply as US-China trade war escalates
Stocks tumbled on Wall Street after President Donald Trump said he “hereby ordered” U.S. companies to consider alternatives to doing business in China. He also said he would respond to Beijing’s latest tariff increase later Friday.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average sank nearly 500 points after the president made the announcements on Twitter.
Trump also said he was “ordering” UPS,
Associated PressJun 01 2019
News
China talks remain in limbo as Trump turns attention to Mexico
Months of intense trade negotiations between the United States and China may, once again, come down to a meeting between the leaders of the world's two economic superpowers later this month, and no one is quite sure what will happen after that. Deadlock with the Asian giant comes as President Donald Trump is expanding his trade fights on multiple fronts. On Thursday, he threatened to hit
CNN (Online News)Jul 31 2019
News
Is Trump the Reason the Fed Is Cutting Rates?
President Donald Trump's repeated calls for easier monetary policy may not be what's driving the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates on Wednesday.
But Trump's policies have set the table for it.
His aggressive tactics on trade, including 25% tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese goods that prompted retaliatory duties on U.S. exports, have made companies uncertain about the future
Newsmax (News)Apr 06 2018
Opinion
OPINION: Koch network growing frustrated with the GOP’s 2018 agenda
Leaders of the conservative Koch political network are mad about President Trump’s tariffs, the failure to protect “dreamers” and runaway government spending. They’re frustrated congressional leaders do not feel a greater sense of urgency to pass more ambitious legislation during what could be the final six months of unified Republican control for a long time. And they’re worried that
James HohmannJun 07 2019
News
Job Growth Slows Sharply as Payrolls Add 75K, Wage Gains Moderate
U.S. job growth slowed sharply in May and wages rose less than expected, suggesting the loss of momentum in economic activity was spreading to the labor market, which could increase calls for the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates this year.
The cool-off in hiring reported by the Labor Department on Friday was even before a recent escalation in trade tensions between the United
Newsmax (News)Dec 10 2020
Analysis
Assessing Trump's Experiment With Protectionist Trade Policies
With President Donald Trump soon departing Washington, now is a great time to assess his protectionist trade policies. From tariffs to his hectic bullying of other governments to renegotiate trade agreements to his support for American export subsidies, the Trump years were more than infuriating on trade matters; they were destructive.
This harsh conclusion is no surprise to those of us
ReasonMay 31 2019
News
Mexico’s president says he wants to avoid a clash with Trump
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Friday that he would defend the interests of Mexicans but wanted to avoid a clash with Washington, after the Trump administration announced it would slap punitive tariffs on its southern neighbor unless it did more to stop irregular migration.
“There is no need for confrontation,” the leftist president said at his daily morning news conference
Washington PostMar 04 2017
News
Why Trade Can Still Thrive Under a Protectionist Like Donald Trump
Hostility to free trade is now a bipartisan feature of American politics. Donald Trump won last year's election in part by promising to pull out of trade agreements, impose trade tariffs, and preserve jobs in dying industries at all costs. On the left, Bernie Sanders campaigned on protectionism and portrayed the sometimes trade-friendly Hillary Clinton as a tool of big business who had no real
Reason