When Donald Trump undercut ranchers with foreign beef and costly tariffs, he treated rural loyalty as a bottomless well and broke the quiet trust of the people who feed this country.
By Ruth Behrens ·
As British drivers buy cheap imports discussed on TBPN, Washington tariffs will only delay domestic automakers from facing inevitable progress.
By Daniel Okafor ·
An AP-NORC poll shows 82% of Americans disapprove of Donald Trump on inflation, proving his regressive policies have betrayed the working class he claimed to protect.
By Maya Ellison ·
The hallmarks of a functioning international order are predictability and the rule of law.
By Klaus Berger ·
At the Republican National Convention in Dallas on September 9, President Donald Trump offered the American electorate a transaction.
By Tom Beckwith ·
By Klaus Berger ·
I’ve spent my life reading ledgers, and I know a bad deal when I see one.
By Grant Colby ·
They told Chrystia Freeland that because the U.S. is ten times larger than Canada, it should get its way ten times more. That wasn't a negotiation; it was a threat disguised as a math problem.
By Imani Sutton ·
There is a particular brand of corporate cynicism that emerges when a company discovers it can charge the customer for a crisis and then pocket the government’s apology for that same crisis.
By Aoife Gallagher ·
The two days of talks in Asheville, North Carolina, were less an economic consensus and more a carefully choreographed piece of theater designed to justify unilateral action.
By Ray Dombrowski ·
When a trade dispute reaches the point where national sovereignty is subject to social media mockery, it ceases to be an economic negotiation and becomes, quite simply, theatre.
By Aoife Gallagher ·
The notion that a federally mandated tax credit can magically restore Hollywood to its former glory is pure political fantasy.
By Klaus Berger ·
You read the headlines about G20 finance chiefs gathering in Asheville, North Carolina, and you hear words like "global imbalances" and "sovereign debt restructuring." The…
By Ruth Behrens ·
The G20 meeting in Asheville, North Carolina, was not a forum for stability; it was a highly choreographed performance of control.
By Maya Ellison ·
You learn early in life that nothing is ever free. You can’t just walk into the co-op and ask for a bushel of corn without paying for it—and if you don't have the cash, you don't get the grain.
By Ruth Behrens ·
By Sophie Naimi ·