By: Karl Rove – wsj.com – April 9, 2025 This chaos has been bad for everyone. Can the master negotiator now turn it around? Common sense prevailed Wednesday when President Trump announced he’d pause tariffs on most countries for 90 days. It’s good for America and his own political standing that he’s decided to become a dealmaker. He’s certainly got...

The old order of globalisation and industrial decline has failed working-class Americans.

Let me say, up front, that I do not know if Trump’s tariffs will accomplish his purposes or not.  Tariffs are common in human history.  Some tariffs, in some places, and at certain times, have had some benefits to a country’s economy.

By: Gerard Baker – wsj.com – April 7, 2025 In the days after Japan surrendered at the end of World War II, he was a young boy living in a small town. As American troops moved to occupy the country, the mood was one of panicked terror. The Japanese had been told by their leaders that the victorious Americans would...

The world’s business leaders are worried. Donald Trump’s return to power and the growing hostility of China and Russia are upending 80 years of international rules-based order. In its place is emerging a more chaotic and volatile world, where conflict is commonplace and state actor aggression online continues to escalate.

The whole thing was hastily assembled, sloppy, and riddled with errors. Source: Donald Trump’s Tariffs: No Genius Plan | National Review

Trump unveiled the new tariffs in a ceremony at the White House’s Rose Garden on Wednesday for a “Make America Wealthy Again” event.

  Bringing back American manufacturing won’t be easy, Erin McLaughlin writes in a guest commentary. Source: Trump Wants to Reshore U.S. Manufacturing. It Could Take Years. – Barron’s

FNC’s Jesse Watters commented on Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs:

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – April 3, 2025 Blowing up the world trading system has consequences that the President isn’t advertising. All details aren’t clear as we write this, but Mr. Trump’s tariffs look “reciprocal” in name only. First he’s hitting every nation in the world with a 10% “baseline” tariff to sell in the U.S. market. For...