The numbers that are coming out tell a similar story. UNCTAD expects global growth to slow down to around 2.6%, falling below ...

This article was originally published by the Council on Foreign Relations on Aug. 1, 2025. One of the hardest jobs of a policymaker is to weigh trade-offs. Few policies are clean, absolute, and ...

President Donald Trump just set new tariffs for every country around the world, solidifying his extreme break with America’s long-standing trade policy. Tariffs on the vast majority of goods America ...

Find all episodes of Planet Money Summer School here. Tariffs are the favorite tool of our current president, but there are lots of other ways that governments insert themselves into the free exchange ...

Since returning to the White House in January, President Donald Trump has overturned decades of U.S. trade policy — building ...

This paper introduces the Trade Policy Activity (TPA) Index, a novel indicator measuring evolving global trade policy dynamics since the Global Financial Crisis. Using a Dynamic Factor Model on ...

The August 1 tariff announcements have clarified the United States’ trade policy, but important details remain unclear. Key questions persist around the definition of transshipment, how countries ...

The World Trade Organization said trade growth had proved more resilient in 2025 than expected, but would slow next year as result of President Trump’s tariffs. By Ana Swanson Ana Swanson covers ...

The Trump administration’s new National Security Strategy, released last Thursday, makes one thing unmistakably clear: The United States no longer sees trade policy as a tool of economic betterment ...

Several weeks ago, Ed Gresser of the Progressive Policy Institute devoted his weekly column to examining whether the Trump administration’s tariffs are achieving their goals. He concluded they were ...

President Trump chooses Heritage Foundation economist E.J. Antoni to lead the BLS, the federal agency that collects data on inflation and the nation's jobs numbers. What is Antoni's public record?

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