Bidenomics created a manufacturing boom. Trump is tearing that up by the roots.
Economic Policy
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Mad King Trump’s Tariff Disaster
The president’s trade war on Canada is heating up in the dumbest conceivable manner.
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The Unusual Biden-Trump Continuity in One Area
On antitrust, Trump’s enforcers are challenging mergers and seeking breakups. What’s going on here?
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The Trump Depression
Donald Trump is on track to be the first president to deliberately engineer a severe depression.
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CFPB to Employees: When We Said Stop Work, We Didn’t Mean Stop Work!
The illegal plan to dismantle the consumer agency is failing. So Russ Vought and his charges are engaging in some CYA.
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The Plot to Destroy the CFPB
Declarations in a court case involving the union of the consumer protection agency detail a desire to whittle it down to ‘five men in a room.’
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Amnesty Day at CFPB
The agency dropped five cases of alleged financial predation while the nominee to run the agency was in a Senate confirmation hearing.
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Governors Nervous About Tariff Endgame
As state leaders gathered for their annual meeting in Washington, few understood the real reasons for ramping up a North American trade war.
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The New Antitrust Consensus
The Trump administration is maintaining the merger guidelines that Lina Khan co-authored, and big business is angry.
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The Intellectual Dishonesty of Jason Furman
What’s behind his broadside against Joe Biden’s economics?
