It has been hard this past week, of tariffs applied worldwide on April 2 to tariffs suspended except for China on April 9, to avoid reflecting on how much trouble could have been avoided if economists, instead of talking about countries’ trade surpluses and trade deficits, had devised different words — say, “buyer-dominant” countries and “seller-dominant” countries. Perhaps […]
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) expressed uncertainty about President Trump’s trade policy to CNN’s Manu Raju on Wednesday. “I still don’t know exactly what his total strategy is,” Johnson said on Capitol Hill in a clip that aired on CNN’s “The Arena,” in a clip highlighted by Mediaite. “We know what his goal was … he...
The Senate confirmed Paul Atkins as the next Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) leader. Atkins, a former Republican SEC commissioner, was greenlighted by the Senate in a 52-44 vote on Wednesday evening. President Trump nominated Atkins, a Wall Street consultant, to the head the independent financial regulator, describing him as a “proven leader for common...
Tech billionaire Elon Musk’s attorney John Bash is running to succeed Ken Paxton (R) as Texas’s attorney general, becoming the first candidate to throw his hat in the statewide race. Bash, who is a partner at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, said he is running because the Texas attorney general’s office is at the...
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz criticized Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Wednesday while talking to supporters at an Ohio town hall gathering, according to video footage.
Congress – and members of the press, like yours truly – demanded answers from Trade Rep. Jamieson Greer this week, as both the stock market and trade policy remained volatile.
“Just who was the ‘decider’ in the Biden White House as the president of the United States slipped into senility remains an unanswered question,” concedes The Washington...