This is insanely bad economic policy.
Daily Analysis
The Biggest Threat to Trump’s Growth Agenda…Is Trump’s Self-Sabotaging Trade Taxes
Does he not understand or not care?
Trump’s Costly De Minimis Trade Gambit
Sometimes the damage of protectionism is very obvious.
Trump Proposes to Destroy Manufacturing Jobs
There are far more jobs in the metal-using sectors than there are in the metal-making sectors.
Trade 101 for Trumpies
Why protectionism is a net job destroyer.
More Self-Sabotaging Trade Taxes from Trump
Trump’s knee-jerk protectionism is misguide
It Is Good that Trump Will Increase the Trade Deficit
This is a non-controversial accounting identity.
Part II: Jobs, Taxes, Trade, and Trump
Unfortunately, Donald Trump is clueless on trade.
Part I: Jobs, Taxes, Trade, and Trump
Creative destruction is a dynamic and beneficial force
A Second Edition of Trump: Will He Be the Second Edition of Herbert Hoover?
Could Trump be far worse on trade than his first term?