Tag: trade
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...
Trump’s ‘America first’ trade policy ignores key lesson from Great Depression
Charles Hankla, Georgia State University
President Donald Trump declared his nearly two-week trip through Asia “tremendously successful,” but economic history should make us more skeptical....
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...
How China could use trade to force North Korea to play...
Greg Wright, University of California, Merced
North Korea got the world’s attention – and President Donald Trump’s – when it said on July 4 that...
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...
EXPLORING NATURE
Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the...
Jonathan Levy, Boston University; Howard Frumkin, University of Washington; Jonathan Patz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Vijay Limaye, University of Wisconsin-Madison
