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Economy

Farmers and services industry the winners under the revised Trans-Pacific Partnership...

Staff Writer - January 28, 2018

Giovanni Di Lieto, Monash University The revived trade agreement, now known as the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), has finally made it...

Economy

For richer or poorer: 4 economists ponder what 2018 has in...

Staff Writer - January 4, 2018

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...

Business

Trump’s ‘America first’ trade policy ignores key lesson from Great Depression

Staff Writer - November 16, 2017

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....

Business

Apple and 7-Eleven show why Trump’s threat to sever China trade...

Staff Writer - September 5, 2017

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...

Business

Trump’s threat to withdraw from NAFTA may hit a hurdle: The...

Staff Writer - August 19, 2017

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...

Business

Why the US shouldn’t start a trade war with China

Staff Writer - August 15, 2017

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...

Business

Why Trump’s threat to slap tariffs on foreign steel is a...

Staff Writer - July 18, 2017

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...