Economy

With the Trump Administration making repeated moves in its trade agenda, China has appeared as one of the key targets in Washington’s attempts to regain ……Read More

An interesting analysis by Brad Setser, a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations looks at the recent trade kerfuffle between Canada and the United States and helps ……Read More

One of the preferred ways that governments have to impact bilateral trade is to impose tariffs, those nasty taxes that generally result in higher prices ……Read More

These two recent tweets from Donald Trump regarding Canada’s farmers… Based on Justin’s false statements at his news conference, and the fact that Canada is ……Read More

With very little fanfare or attention from voters, the House has now passed S.2155, the misleadingly named “Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief and Consumer Protection Act” ……Read More

In its most recent pronouncement on March 21, 2018, the Federal Reserve stated that it was increasing the federal funds rate to its new target of ……Read More

As a person that would be classified as a “gold bug”, albeit, not one that wears a tinfoil hat, I am always interested to see ……Read More

In a fascinating look back in time, recently released documents on the National Security Archives website show what plans the United States and its key ……Read More

With the level of consumer debt in the United States doing this: …and this: …and with house affordability in some markets declining like this: …and this: …I ……Read More

With the Federal Reserve continuing its tightening, it is interesting to look back at the relationship between job creation and the federal funds rate, the ……Read More

With a trade war between China and the United States looking increasingly likely, I wanted to use this posting to briefly survey what some economists ……Read More

While the world was shaken by the announcement of the proposed U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum, it should have come as no surprise to ……Read More

Given that the current economic expansion is one of the longest on record, one has to wonder when the next recession will occur and what ……Read More

With some experts predicting as many as four interest rate increases by the Federal Reserve during 2018, one aspect of the economy should be concerning ……Read More

While news about the U.S. housing market has been relegated to the back pages of the business section of American online and print news services, ……Read More