Trade War

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Sarah and Marty Krocak look over their year end financial records before learning they were nearly ... fifty thousand in the hole for the year on December 9, 2019 in Montgomery, MN. Dairy and crop farmers across the Midwest are going out of business due the trade war. Washington promises…

A Honda fuel cell car for California, photographed being inspected by journalists in 1996. Progress is slow in the car world.Photo: Getty ImagesThe Morning ShiftAll your daily car news in one convenient place. Isn't your time more important?The Trump administration is dropping its antitrust probe against Ford, Honda, Volkswagen, and…

Yahoo Finance’s Rick Newman joins Zack Guzman, Brian Cheung and Clearnomics Founder & CEO James Liu on YFi PM to discuss how the trade war is impacting swing states during the 2020 presidential race.Read More

February 10, 2020 6:30am by Barry Ritholtz My back to work morning train reads: • These Are the 100 Most Sustainable Companies in America — and They’re Beating the Market (Barron’s) • Nobody Told Me: Thoughts on money (Humble Dollar) • Look Out, Here Come the Grey Swans:  Big changes…

The Israeli military has blocked Palestinian agricultural exports through Jordan in the latest escalation of a months-long trade war that comes amid fears of renewed violence in the region over a controversial Middle East plan backed by the United States. Following Defense Minister Naftali Bennett's instruction, the Israeli military said…

An entrance to the Wuhan City Central Hospital in Wuhan.WUHAN: President Xi Jinping strode onstage before an adoring audience in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing less than three weeks ago, trumpeting his successes in steering China through a tumultuous year and promising "landmark" progress in 2020. "Every…

President Trump touted the strength of the US economy during his State of the Union.But despite the stock-market records that Trump touted, the American economy is not working for many middle-class families.And if Trump believes that the economy is enough to get him elected, he is mistaken.Rep. Eric Swalwell is…

I’m interviewed on Wisconsin Public Radio today, in the wake of declining Wisconsin exports. Figure 1: Wisconsin goods exports to world (blue, left scale), to China (red, right scale), in bn 2012$. Nominal values deflated using national goods exports deflator. Section 232 and 301 actions shaded gray. Source: ITA TradeStats,…

President Donald Trump's trade war is projected to reduce the average family's real income by $1,277, according to a new report from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). The CBO, a nonpartisan congressional research arm, projected that the tariffs imposed by the Trump administration and retaliatory tariffs imposed by countries like China…