Tag: Free trade
3 key quotes from Trump’s first State of the Union, explained
Steven Pressman, Colorado State University; Greg Wright, University of California, Merced, and Stephanie L. Canizales, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters,...
For richer or poorer: 4 economists ponder what 2018 has in...
Greg Wright, University of California, Merced; Christos Makridis, Stanford University; Patricia Smith, University of Michigan, and William Hauk, University of South Carolina
Editor’s note: We...
Apple and 7-Eleven show why Trump’s threat to sever China trade...
Greg Wright, University of California, Merced
President Donald Trump tweeted on September 3 that the U.S. “is considering, in addition to other options, stopping all...
Trump’s threat to withdraw from NAFTA may hit a hurdle: The...
Tim Meyer, Vanderbilt University
On Aug. 16, representatives of the U.S., Canada and Mexico formally begin renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), an...
Why the US shouldn’t start a trade war with China
Greg Wright, University of California, Merced
The U.S. and China seem to be on the verge of a costly trade war.
Most recently, the Trump administration...
Why Trump’s threat to slap tariffs on foreign steel is a...
William Hauk, University of South Carolina
During the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump attracted a lot of support by promising to restore jobs to the...
What’s at stake as President Trump sits down with China’s Xi
Greg Wright, University of California, Merced
The U.S. and China together account for one-third of global economic output, so there is a lot...
Trump’s trade policy is more predictable and less isolationist than critics...
Peter K. Yu, Texas A&M University
In his first full week in office, President Donald Trump unleashed a whirlwind of actions that have deep...
EXPLORING NATURE
Oldest known cremation in Africa poses 9,500-year-old mystery about Stone Age...
Jessica C. Thompson, Yale University; Elizabeth Sawchuk, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York), and Jessica Cerezo-Román, University of Oklahoma
