Category Archives: Economics
Trump’s tariff wars: self-defeating
Many business leaders won’t say it out loud, but I have yet to meet a Wisconsin business person who likes President Trump’s tariff vendetta. I use the word “vendetta” because, in my view, his wide-ranging tariffs are more about punishing … Read the rest
Trump, Vance on manufacturing: wrong again
Donald Trump and his mini-me, JD Vance, are making a very bad economic bet when they push for higher tariffs to enable in Vance’s words “a great manufacturing comeback.” Fareed Zakaria, the brilliant New York Times columnist on global affairs, … Read the rest
