Puerto Rico Pays More For American Energy Than Its Neighbor
Crowley Maritime, an American shipping company, recently announced that it raised the U.S. flag on a 31-year-old French-built ...
Trump Is Giving Everyone What They Want In the Dumbest Way Possible
Dynamists, protectionists, hawks, and doves are seeing their policy goals realized in the most bungling and incompetent ...
Trump's Longtime Obsession With Trade Deficits Suggests His Tariffs Won't End Soon
The "reciprocal" tariffs that President Donald Trump announced this week are based on a flagrant fallacy: the idea that there ...
What To Do If Border Police Ask To Search Your Phone
After all, ordinary police can't just stop you on the street and search your phone without a warrant. But courts have ...
Nintendo Delays Switch 2 Preorders Over Trump Tariffs
Within hours of President Donald Trump's announcement that he would impose double-digit tariffs on all imports from nearly ...
Regulations Are Hurting Red Bull's F1 Performance
Japanese Formula 1 (F1) driver Yuki Tsunoda will make his Red Bull Racing debut at the Japanese Grand Prix on Sunday. The ...
Trump's Tariff Blueprint Called for 'Careful Planning' and 'Precise Execution'
If you want to understand what President Donald Trump is trying to accomplish with his massive tariff hikes, the best place ...
Why Trump's "Liberation Day" Tariffs are Illegal
President Donald Trump announced his gargantuan "Liberation Day" tariffs. They impose 10% tariffs on imports from almost ...
Dylan Landon
Dylan Landon is an M.S. in Applied Economics student at Johns Hopkins University and writes The Economist Attorney, a blog on ...
The New Prohibitionists Are Hijacking Federal Dietary Guidelines
This article originally appeared in print under the headline "The New Prohibitionists." ...
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Trump Is Making Affordable Goods Expensive
Cheap Chinese goods are about to get pricier. On Wednesday, President Donald Trump announced the elimination of the de minimis exemption for low-value ...