…anger and outrage from trade partners around the world. “America’s major trade partners responded to those aggressive tariffs with their own targeted tariffs, quotas, and boycotts on American goods. “▪…

Herr Trump, “If you are going to do it, then do it.” Quit threatening us with tariffs on the supply base that supplies us with goods. You are not going…

…manufacturers produce the materials, components, and equipment that fuel nearly every other manufacturing sector in the US — from semiconductors and automobiles to medical devices and consumer goods. We don’t…

Look, tariffs are just consumption taxes. American consumers pay for tariffs on Chinese goods, not the Chinese government, businesses or people. Trump pretends that exporting countries pay our tariffs. If…

…Minh Chinh last month instructed officials to strengthen the fight against trade fraud, “especially regarding the origin of goods, counterfeit goods.” The measures are meant to please Washington but some…

…about, “A well-constructed economic model that produces and equitably distributes the requisite goods and services; does so in a sustainable manner with minimal damage to the environment.” The Magna Carta…

…how Southern lawmakers blocked shared prosperity by neglecting basic worker protections and disinvesting in social safety net programs while offering hefty subsidies to corporations, privatizing public goods, and giving the…

…meantime, watch to see if the remaining short leading indicators to fall into place, most notably new jobless claims, consumer retail spending, employment in the goods-producing sectors, at very least…

…other measures that are not signaling a recession in the immediate near term (e.g, employment in the goods producing sector). As I noted several weeks ago, in the past 50+…