What Mr. Trump is doing with tariffs is a result of a lost consensus about how the United States should interact with other ...

Tariff advocates perpetuate the myth that the state can solve economic problems by imposing artificial barriers.

Here’s how current events are mirroring a key point in U.S. history that led to a trade war and exacerbated the Great ...

“Protective tariffs distort domestic production by inducing domestic producers to commit labor and capital to produce goods and services that could have been acquired more cheaply on the ...

President Trump recently instituted new tariffs on two allies and one adversary: 25% on goods from Mexico and Canada and 10% ...

Tariff disputes are causing volatility under the new administration, but investors should have two bigger worries right now.

We have an income tax as opposed to a tariff in part to deal with the mind of the South in 1913—yet the income tax revenue enabled revenue-destructive tariffs.

Abraham Lincoln, the nation’s 16th president, said, "Give us a protective tariff and we will have the greatest nation on earth." Lincoln believed strongly, if tariffs could provide a domestic ...