Setting the stage for a major ruling on presidential power, the Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to decide whether a 1977 federal law giving the president certain emergency powers allowed President Donald Trump to levy tariffs on nearly all goods imported into the United States through a series of executive orders.

The Department of Labor is initiating an investigation into how the Bureau of Labor Statistics collects and reports “closely watched economic data,” according to a letter the department’s Assistant Inspector General for Audit, Laura Nicolosi, sent to Acting BLS Commissioner William Wiatrowski on Wednesday.

The Department of Labor is initiating an investigation into how the Bureau of Labor Statistics collects and reports “closely watched economic data,” according to a letter the department’s Assistant Inspector General for Audit, Laura Nicolosi, sent to Acting BLS Commissioner William Wiatrowski on Wednesday. Source: Dept. of Labor launches investigation into data collection process at BLS | CNN Business

President Trump’s newly applied tariffs on low-value imports will cost U.S. consumers money, potentially costing him votes as inflation rises and public approval of his handling of the econom…

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – August 1, 2025 The President has his new world tariff order in place, but jobs and growth don’t look so good. The details in the report provide little solace. The jobless rate ticked up only to 4.25% from 4.1%, but that was in part because the labor force continued to shrink. The labor...

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – July 20, 2025 Power shortages are coming thanks to wind and solar subsidies. Here’s how they distort energy investment. As we’ve been writing for years, the reliability of the U.S. electrical grid is in trouble. The Energy report projects potential power shortfalls in 2030, as 104 gigawatts of baseload power retire in the...

By: Jason L. Riley – wsj.com – July 8, 2025 He beat the Democrats with common sense on cultural issues. He has to deliver on the economy Similarly, Mr. Trump doesn’t buy the specious argument that police officers are a bigger threat than criminals to public safety, and he rejects the notion that immigration enforcement is rooted in xenophobia that endangers...

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The shift away from the Obama-Biden system of the federal government picking winners and losers is a welcome change in our economy.

China’s economy is built on a system that distorts free trade. Determined to grow at any cost, China has been overproducing everything. It started with roads and rail lines, then moved to apartments and mansions, and now it’s cars, refrigerators and semiconductors. These goods are dumped on foreign markets, including in America. Trump’s tariffs may be disruptive, but they can...