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Trump’s $60 billion in China tariffs will create more problems than...

William Hauk, University of South Carolina After spending seven months investigating whether China is engaged in unfair trade practices, the Trump administration announced March 22...

Recent stock market sell-off foreshadows a new Great Recession

Steven Pressman, Colorado State University and Robert H. Scott III, Monmouth University In early February, concerns about inflation and rising interest rates sent global financial...

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...

‘Hot potato’ shows why workers won’t benefit from Trump’s corporate tax...

Steven Pressman, Colorado State University Many children have played hot potato, a game in which they pass a spud to other children quickly so they...

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....

Why Puerto Rico ‘doesn’t count’ to the US government

Jay L. Zagorsky, The Ohio State University Hurricanes Irma and Maria devastated Puerto Rico in September, destroying homes, crops and communications. Many weeks later, power...

Do tax cuts stimulate the economy more than spending?

Dale O. Cloninger, University of Houston-Clear Lake During the presidential campaign, Donald Trump promised to boost the economy both by cutting taxes and investing more...

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