After two days of panic selling of stocks, recession and stagflation have become part of the conversation. Joshua Zietz wrote for Politico, “Stagflation — “the ...

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Before we discuss how this might be done, it is important to examine Mercantilism's history, from its origins to its modern applications. Governments adhering to mercantilist principles sought to ...

Financial markets often overreact, but this Trump slump is perfectly rational and explicable. Tariffs are taxes on goods, and ...

the single highest peacetime tax hike as a percentage of GDP in the nation’s history. Rather, as outside observers dug into the details of Trump’s country-specific “reciprocal” tariffs ...

When Taiwan came under KMT rule after communist rule started in China, there were severe balance of payments troubles, and ...

In U.S. financial history, there are weeks that live in infamy—like the ... the U.S. government has forsaken free markets in ...

An elegy of barriers between history and art. A concise journey through the history of tariffs, from their archaic origins to ...

Not yet three months into a second term, President Donald Trump has taken difficult, but necessary, actions to rein in the scope of a federal government on a fiscally unsustainable path. He is also wo ...

From Mercantilism to Managed Prosperity: The long arc of global economic history has often pivoted on the fulcrum of trade—its expansion or constraint and the ideologies that underpin it.

President Trump is building his new administration. Trump is attempting to build a "new" economy, one that can take America into a Golden Age. But, Trump is a mercantilist who must change the ...