Ben Shapiro slams Trump’s “probably unconstitutional” tariffs as “one of the biggest tax increases on American consumers in the history of America.”

The Financial Times, not mincing words on.ft.com/4j9VB9y

Tariffs are a tax paid by the American consumer. See my Op Ed in Fox this morning. foxnews.com/opinion/sen-ra…

Mitt Romney warned us

While I support open markets and oppose protectionism, that is not my problem with the Donald J. Trump Administration policies. The problem is an utterly confused and incoherent doctrine that says bilateral deficits are a sign a country is exploiting us. Trump’s economic theory

The Chinese Embassy in the US posting a speech by Ronald Reagan. These are remarkable times we live in.

And the absolute dumbest fucking part of this entire ordeal. The effective tariff rate we paid the rest of the world was 2% in January 2025. It will be 6% by tomorrow. We took a completely imaginary problem (that countries were unfairly tariffing us), and turned it into an

“The level of tariff increases announced so far is significantly larger than anticipated, and the same is likely to be true of the economic effects which will include higher inflation and slower growth.” - Jerome Powell

The front cover of tomorrow’s Wall Street Journal:

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This has probably been the least successful first hundred days of a presidency Donald J. Trump on the economy in the last century. We have seen the stock market go down, the dollar go down, forecasts of unemployment go up, forecasts of inflation go up, forecasts on the odds of a

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In all of its actions, Canada’s new government will be guided by a new fiscal discipline: Spend less so Canadians can invest more.

En arbetstidsförkortning till 35 timmar per vecka skulle minska BNP med 509 miljarder kronor per år på lång sikt eller 8,1 procent av BNP, visar beräkningar. (S)-kongressens beslut om att arbetstiden behöver kortas försämrar svensk konkurrenskraft.

Tariffs are taxes. Tariffs are regressive taxes. Tariffs are distortionary, regressive taxes. Tariffs are distortionary, regressive taxes that raise prices for US businesses and consumers.

Sweden will host continued trade negotiations between the United States and the People’s Republic of China early next week. The two countries’ willingness to meet here to try to reach an agreement is a positive development. The discussions primarily concern relations between

Europeans don’t buy American food for the same reason Americans don’t buy European smartphones. People don’t like garbage products.

This is the one question conservatives should be asking ourselves about the tariffs: Is $2 TRILLION in taxes on top of all of the other taxes that we have a good deal?

American Companies and American Consumers Pay the Cost of American Tariffs. Time to Get Back to Less Taxes, Less Tariffs and Free Trade with Free Nations🇺🇸

John Deere is laying off 238 workers at three factories in Iowa. The company said Tariffs and lower commodity prices are to blame. “Tariff costs in the quarter were approximately $200 million, which brings us to roughly $300 million in tariff expense year to date,” said director