…lay “the foundation for a new global trading order.” In the administration’s theory of the case, tariffs will ignite domestic reindustrialization, create jobs, turn trade deficits into surpluses, and reduce…

…country’s overall trade deficit tell us about our trading relations and the health of the U.S. economy? The Facts: Over the past 50 years, international trade has become an increasingly…

…energy markets. Brent crude was trading above $88 per barrel in early trading, up more than 4% on the day, while U.S. benchmark West Texas Intermediate climbed to roughly $85.90 per…

…a federal trade court to strike down the 10 percent tariffs Trump imposed on most U.S. trading partners in February. Trump promised to hike those tariffs to 15 percent, but has not yet…

…situations in a bit… Insider trading So far the only “winners” of Trump’s folly are (a) anyone who can supply GOFD while their competition is kneecapped and (b) Trump friends…

…for Labor, In the first place the amount of Labor in manufacturing has been declining for years due to manual machining going to multi-functional NC equipment and then to programmed…

…London stepped into the vacuum of Dutch collapse and had surpassed Amsterdam as a trading center by 1780. England had a robust financial system by the 18th century. During the…

…for the past 4 years since the Fed started to increase interest rates: The 10 year bond closed yesterday at 4.42%, and as I write this is trading at 4.48%….

…computer generated program trading that capturess tiny fractional percentage gains millions of times per day, to skim money away from those who use exchanges for valid purposes. And maybe we…

…pushed through legislation (signed by Billy-Bob Clinton at tail end of his battered second term) that exempted some speculative trading from certain regulations dating back to the Commodities Exchange Act…