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President Donald Trump has been hyping up “Liberation Day” this week – the start of new tariffs on U.S. trading partners – but is the math really mathing?
Here's a puzzle that's been bothering me: how can we be seeing substantial tariff revenues, and flattish inflation, and a ...
The White House’s new tariffs were pegged to amounts it said other countries impose on the U.S. In many cases, those amounts appear to match a basic formula: the size of a country's goods-trade ...
The following math was based on the 104 percent tariff that went into effect on April 9, but the White House has now bumped that to 145 percent. (Technically, ...
For countries that don't face a flat 10% tariff, the Trump administration's recent levies follow a basic formula—and one that doesn’t include what countries charge the U.S. It compares the ...