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How the Supreme Court Is Likely to Rule on Trump’s Tariffs | Dr. John Yoo
The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments last November about whether President Trump exceeded his executive authority by imposing what some are calling “sweeping, worldwide tariffs” in Learning Resources Inc. v. Trump. While we wait for the high court to render a decision, John Yoo, a University of California, Berkeley, law professor and visiting scholar… Continue reading How the Supreme Court Is Likely to Rule on Trump’s Tariffs | Dr. John Yoo
Not Quite Yet, China
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness China has tentatively agreed to curtail sales of fentanyl to Mexico and other Latin American nations. For three decades, Beijing sent the raw product to Latin American and Mexican cartels. The gangs then processed and disguised the toxic brew as less lethal narcotics and prescription drugs for export. The cartels laundered the… Continue reading Not Quite Yet, China
The Decline and Fall of Our So-Called Degreed Experts
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness The first six months of the Trump administration have not been kind to the experts and the degree-holding classes. Almost daily during the tariff hysterias of March, we were told by university economists and most of the PhDs employed in investment and finance that the U.S. was headed toward a… Continue reading The Decline and Fall of Our So-Called Degreed Experts
Trump, Tariffs, Trade—and a Taboo?
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness After only a hundred days, the Trump counterrevolution has made quite miraculous progress on the border, illegal immigration, cost-cutting, curbing the DEI/woke revolution, and a historic Ukrainian War settlement. The pushback to this multifront effort from the left has been formidable, if not hysterical. The greatest fury mostly centers around… Continue reading Trump, Tariffs, Trade—and a Taboo?
China Would Lose a ‘Trade War’ With the US—’Gradually, then Suddenly’
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness No one wants a “trade war” with China, or for that matter with any nation. Nonetheless, China has been waging one for years and is now locked in a tariff recalibration with the Trump administration. In this American effort to find trade parity and equity, China can do some short-term… Continue reading China Would Lose a ‘Trade War’ With the US—’Gradually, then Suddenly’
Ten Tariff Questions Never Asked
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Trump’s So-Called “Trade War.” Many call the American effort to obtain either tariff parity or a reduction in the roughly $1 trillion trade deficit and fifty years of consecutive trade deficits “a trade war.” But then what do they call the policies of the past half-century by Europe, Asia, China, and others… Continue reading Ten Tariff Questions Never Asked
Five Ukrainian Fables
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Fable One: Donald Trump Is Appeasing Russia? Who wiped out the Wagner group in Syria? Who sold offensive weapons to Ukraine first? Who warned Germany not to become dependent on the Russian Nord Stream II deal? Who withdrew from an unfair missile deal with the Russians? Who cajoled and berated… Continue reading Five Ukrainian Fables
Are Trump’s Tariffs Really Tariffs?
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Hysteria has erupted here and abroad over President Trump’s threats to level trade tariffs against particular countries. Both American and foreign critics blasted them variously as either counterproductive and suicidal or unfair, imperialistic, and xenophobic. Certainly, tariffs are widely hated by doctrinaire economists. They complain that tariffs burden consumers with… Continue reading Are Trump’s Tariffs Really Tariffs?