By: Craig Timberg, Tony Romm, & Elizabeth Dwoskin – washingtonpost.com – April 10 at 8:19 PM Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg endured an hours-long grilling by dozens of U.S. senators Tuesday during which he repeatedly apologized and promised privacy reforms but also pointedly defended his company against the threat of new legislation. Zuckerberg invoked Facebook’s unlikely journey — from a...

By: Trevor Hunnicutt & Kate Duguid – reuters.com – April 4, 2018 Graphic: Top U.S. trade partners & foreign holders of Treasuries – reut.rs/2CUqQB0 It took China just 11 hours to retaliate against the United States for proposing tariffs on some 1,300 Chinese products, but Chinese officials are holding back on taking aim at their largest American import: government debt....

By: Michael Stumo & Dan DiMicco — thehill.com – March 29, 2018 President Trump’s renegotiated Korea trade deal shows that the era of America’s unilateral trade disarmament is over. During the last 30 years, various academics and free traders have urged the United States to pre-emptively remove all of its trade barriers. The idea was to encourage other countries to...

By: Michael Stumo & Dan DiMicco — thehill.com – March 29, 2018 President Trump’s renegotiated Korea trade deal shows that the era of America’s unilateral trade disarmament is over. During the last 30 years, various academics and free traders have urged the United States to pre-emptively remove all of its trade barriers. The idea was to encourage other countries to...

By: Stephen Moore – townhall.com – April 03, 2018 Is it possible that Donald Trump is winning on trade? Last week, Trump apparently delivered two underappreciated victories as a result of his threat of stiff tariffs and renegotiated trade deals. First, Seoul has agreed to reduce long-standing non-tariff trade barriers that have reduced American exports to Korea. Though the details...

Adults weaponized the Parkland kids, who will ‘lead’ only so long as they’re useful. By: David French – nationalreview.com – April 2, 2018 Let’s begin by stating the obvious. There is not a single American corporation, media entity, or adult activist who actually takes direction from David Hogg or any other Parkland victim. Every single thing they do in response...

By: George Will – nationalreview.com – April 1, 2018 Another fiscally ruinous entitlement is the last thing America needs. The recent bipartisan budget agreement, which indicates that ten-digit deficits are acceptable to both parties even when the economy is robust, indicates government’s future. So does government’s pregnancy, which was announced nine months ago by this tweet from Senator Marco Rubio...

By: Merrill Matthews – ipi.org – March 13, 2018 If President Donald Trump understood the balance of trade issue better, he’d be bragging about the rising trade deficit, because it’s correlated with a strong and growing economy. But he doesn’t, which creates the Trump Conundrum. The U.S. usually has a trade deficit in goods but a trade surplus in services....

By: Merrill Matthews – ipi.org – March 21, 2018 President Donald Trump has raised tariffs on steel and aluminum by 25 percent and 10 percent, respectively, and he appears to be itching to raise or impose even more tariffs. Since the disastrous passage of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930, in which Congress imposed high tariffs on goods across the...

By: Staff – newsmax.com – March 14, 2018 President Donald Trump has chosen Larry Kudlow to be his top economic aide, elevating the influence of a long-time fixture on the CNBC business news network who previously served in the Reagan administration and has emerged as a leading evangelist for tax cuts and a smaller government. Kudlow told The Associated Press...