As the post-COVID economy continues to struggle and inflation remains at some of the highest levels recorded in decades, Donald Trump has tried to place the blame for recent bad economic news squarely on the shoulders of Joe Biden and…
As inflation remains at some of the highest levels recorded in decades, Republicans have tried to place the blame for the bad economic news squarely on Joe Biden’s shoulders while conveniently leaving out the fact that Donald Trump is primarily…
In June 2018, his trade war wasn’t going very well so Trump and then–Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin gave us the Foxconn Hustle, a $10 billion scheme that was supposed to result in a 20 million-square-foot factory on outskirts of…
Donald Trump made many promises in 2016 about how he would fix the economy, including a promise to shrink the trade deficit. But according to a new Department of Commerce report, Trump’s ill-advised economic policies and trade wars have caused…
Coronavirus hysteria has brought the U.S. economy to the brink of another Great Recession, but Trump’s economic policies and trade wars had already put it on that path well before the so-called pandemic showed up. One of the topics discussed…
Earlier this year, Trump celebrated the two-year anniversary of imposing steel and aluminum tariffs on Canada. In March of 2018, Trump imposed tariffs of 25 percent on imports of steel and 10 percent on aluminum, a move he claimed was necessary…
Though the stock market is only one of the indicators used to measure the health of the U.S. economy, Donald Trump likes to use it as Exhibit A to prove that he’s created “the greatest economy in the history of…
