January’s above-estimates jobs report tells two very different stories. One is about the Trump month. The other is about the Biden inheritance. Start with the month. The U.S. economy added 130,000 nonfarm jobs in January, nearly double…
In your editorial “Are Trump’s Tariffs Winning?” (Review & Outlook, Feb. 5), you claim that President Trump’s tariffs “raise relative prices” and that prices on many goods “would be lower” without them. These assertions rest…
As the Trump economy begins to boom even as inflation moderates, Democrats and the anti-Trump media are desperate for a spin that might discredit Trumponomics.Their latest Hail Mary: pushing a counterfactual narrative that President Trump’s…
On April 7 of last year, with tariff panic gripping the markets and the Dow plunging toward 38,000, I went on CNBC’s Squawk Box with a simple message: relax. The Dow was on a clear…
President Trump dislikes an overly strong dollar because it hurts U.S. exporters and manufacturers, and he wants lower interest rates. His Fed nominee, Kevin Warsh, is associated with a strong dollar and is a reputed…
One of President Trump’s first acts as our 47th president was to shut down what is known as the “de minimis loophole” — a relic of an earlier trade era that had metastasized into a full-blown scam…
Domestic drought of strategic metal is over thanks to levies. For nearly half a century, the United States failed to build a single new primary aluminum smelter. Not one. That drought is ending now in…
The United States has over half a million cattle ranches. But almost all of their cattle must pass through a tiny number of meatpacking plants before reaching your plate. Just four companies control about 85% of U.S. beef…
At first glance, it looks like a contradiction — and the left is quick to call it a moral failure.America is swimming in oil, yet President Donald Trump has moved to bring Venezuelan crude into U.S. refineries.…
When U.S. farmers depend heavily on a single foreign buyer, U.S. trade policy stops being sovereign—and starts being hostage. No country has exploited that vulnerability more than China, and no crop has been weaponized more…