A Q&A with Biden industrial-policy official Alex Jacquez on the right way to boost domestic production in critical sectors
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Sorry, but It’s Not Over
Today on TAP: Trump blinks for now, but he remains a bundle of contradictory impulses and grievances. So the wholly invented economic crisis will continue.
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The Great Trump Crash?
Emergency warnings are lighting up all over financial markets, solely because of Donald Trump.
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Trump Undone (Well, Partially Put on Hold)
Today on TAP: The president is compelled to delay his tariffs. The Republican Congress failed to do it, so the markets did.
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The Economic Consequences of the Tariff War
The economy was already stalling out before Liberation Day. A trade war on the entire world will only make everything worse.
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Trump’s Tariffs: Borne Back Ceaselessly Into a Past That Never Was
Today on TAP: Rebuilding manufacturing? It’s more about humiliating every other world leader, and keeping his own taxes low.
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Bloodlust and Boozing During Trump’s Wall Street Beatdown
A day in Manhattan as markets whipsaw amid the Trump tariff debacle
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We Never Had Free Trade
The U.S. trading system since the 1970s has screwed American workers. But the main culprits are the American capitalists who devised the system, not foreigners.
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Can Congress Take Back Tariff Authority From Trump?
Absolutely. Whether they will is a matter of whether Republicans will continue to put loyalty to Donald Trump above the economy and the country.
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I Hope MAGA Investors Enjoy the Crisis They Caused
Right-wing financiers thought Trump would unleash prosperity. Instead, his tariffs are nuking the markets.