The Salem Witch Tariffs: How Economic Witch Hunts Undermine Liberty

The Salem Witch Tariffs: How Economic Witch Hunts Undermine Liberty

As the progressive left and the anti-trade right merge their arguments, the current political atmosphere is quickly turning into a witch hunt. Unfortunately, we

The West Uses Agreements to Deceive Its Opponents

Peter Koenig tells us that “Most everything we see is not what it appears to be” President Trump’s tariff war is like a huge TV screen to deviate people’s attention from what happens behind the screen. For example, did you know that the much propagated dissolution of USAID – for so called reasons of corruption and hundreds of billions spent for clandestine regime change preparations around the world, – was actually not dissolved, but discretely …

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The Geneva Connection: How the Trump Tariffs penalize U.S.-China Ties and Global Economic Prospects

Despite de-escalation in Geneva, trillions of dollars may have been lost in the unwarranted trade wars.

(Beijing): The US tariff policy introduced by President Donald Trump's administration has posed serious risks to the multilateral trading system and the global economic order. It not only puts the US, once a champion of free trade, in a historical reversal, but also has implications for bilateral relations between the US and major trading partners such as China. The threat of US retaliatory tariffs of up to 145% on Chinese imports has prompted t…

President Donald Trump’s decision to impose, and then withdraw, three-digit tariffs on Chinese products last month demonstrated the power and global reach of U.S. trade policy. But it also exposed the limitations of Trump’s aggressive approach. Tariffs on Chinese products, which the U.S. increased to a minimum of 145 percent at the beginning of April, paralyzed much of the trade between the two countries. They caused companies to redirect their …