The Fed’s Last Stand: When Politics Hijack Monetary Policy
For the better part of the past few decades, the spectre of “fiscal dominance” has remained largely confined to the ivory towers of academia—at least...
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America’s Debt Time Bomb
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has once again sounded the alarm, warning that the federal government might run out of money to pay all its...
The New Face of U.S. Imperialism: Trump’s ‘Secondary Tariffs’ on Venezuela
President Donald Trump appears to have invented a brand-new economic weapon this Monday, threatening to impose what he has christened “secondary tariffs” on countries that...
Where does the US economy stand?
US economic data is currently doing a rather impressive job of contradicting itself, sparking fierce debate over whether President Donald Trump’s delightful mix of trade...
Trump’s Foreign Policy: The Art of Alienating Friends and Making Enemies
Before President Donald Trump took office for the second time, European officials believed they had figured him out. He was a businessman at heart, they...
From Growth Euphoria to Recession Fears in Record Time
Only weeks ago, market analysts debated whether the U.S. economy would accelerate under Trump’s tax-slashing, protectionist agenda. Now, suddenly, the dreaded R-word (recession, not ‘Republican...
Trump’s Economic Gamble: Tariffs, Debt, and a Dose of Wishful Thinking
President Donald Trump has finally set his grand economic experiment in motion, imposing sweeping tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China while reassuring the American public...
The New US Budget Playbook: Tax Cuts, Debt, and Denial
As Congress wrestles with another monumental budget resolution, the Republican Party—historically the self-proclaimed guardians of fiscal responsibility—finds itself in a somewhat awkward silence. The latest...
Trump’s Trade War Escalation: A Policy for Disaster
President Donald Trump has made good on his threat to hammer Canada and Mexico with hefty import tariffs while doubling down on China, effectively dragging...