Trump Blames Biden For Strong Dollar—As US Currency Reaches New High Against Japanese Yen

Former President Trump called the U.S. dollar’s new 34-year high against the yen a “disaster” on Tuesday, claiming it would harm U.S. manufacturers and force them to relocate plants overseas—echoing ... Read More

US-China Trade War

Background and explainers on the trade war between China, led by President Xi Jinping, and the United States, and its President Donald Trump ... US is trying to restrict its rise as a global ... Read More

Texas' Booming Economy Is Far Outpacing the US as a Whole

The Texas economy recorded its 36th successive month of growth in March and is performing substantially better than the U.S. economy as a whole, according to figures from the Texas Workforce ... Read More

The different ways Biden and Trump will shape US trade policy with China, according to a foreign-policy analyst

And with a presidential election approaching in November in the US, who ultimately takes office will go a long way towards shaping the trade ... Trump prevails in the 2024 election, America's ... Read More

The Biden-Trump Economy of Nostalgia

America’s elderly presidential candidates want to return the country to a fantasy mid-20th-century past. Their mantra is to restore manufacturing. But neither understands modern manufacturing or ... Read More

It’s the Biden vs. Trump Economy—and Hell No, It’s Not Even Close

It’s all true. Being sensitive to how people hear things doesn’t mean letting Trump tell lies about ... Biden inherited a horrible economy, got us out of that crisis, suffered through a ... Read More

Chinese ex-trade negotiator who backed Trump slams US for ‘dismantling the system’ of global trade

Long, who turns 81 this month, made headlines in 2019 for his fervent support of Donald Trump’s ... economic and trade systems that are at stake, they were built by the US and the West after ... Read More

It's The Economy, Stupid

Souring US and European trade relations cast another dark cloud over the US and world economies in the run up to the US presidential election. Click to read. Read More

Why is there nostalgia for the Trump economy in the battleground states?

Voters and economists seem to have wildly different views of the US economy ... Trump’s – Bush’s favorability rating had completely rebounded. With the Iraq War and the Great Recession ... Read More

Consumers Turning Sour on Economy’s Future, Worried About Political Outlook

Consumer views of the current economy were little changed in March, though their outlook regarding the future worsened amid heightened concerns over the U.S. political environment. The March ... Read More