This article was originally published by the Council on Foreign Relations on Aug. 1, 2025. One of the hardest jobs of a policymaker is to weigh trade-offs. Few policies are clean, absolute, and ...

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In 2005, the economist Pietra Rivoli followed the production of a T-shirt from a cotton farm to a Walgreens to understand global trade. Today, she sees a new system arising. “Tariffs can be evaluated ...

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The White House announced a new trade policy and tariff plan Thursday night, just hours before the Aug. 1 trade deadline. President Donald Trump signed an executive order imposing new tariffs on ...

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Stephen Miran, President Trump’s newly confirmed pick to the Federal Reserve board, said on Friday that uncertainty around U.S. trade policies was partly responsible for slow economic growth this year ...

President Donald Trump wrote in a Truth Social post on Sunday that the country would be "completely destroyed" without the "trillions of dollars" of tariff revenue entering the U.S. economy. The ...

President Trump chooses Heritage Foundation economist E.J. Antoni to lead the BLS, the federal agency that collects data on inflation and the nation's jobs numbers. What is Antoni's public record?

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