Harvard Professor and former IMF First Deputy Managing Director Gita Gopinath has strongly rebuked the enduring economic narrative that the U.S. dollar’s status as a global reserve currency is to ...

The Trump administration’s recently released 2026 Trade Policy Agenda declares that “America is back.” It argues that tariffs, “reciprocal” trade deals and sector-specific interventions are rebuilding ...

Through President Donald Trump’s first full 10 months in office, the cumulative U.S. trade deficit in goods and services was down 3.9% from the same period in 2024. His claim that he has “slashed our ...

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Donald J. Boudreaux is an economics professor at George Mason University and a senior fellow at the Mercatus Center. Mark J. Perry is a former professor of economics at the University of Michigan at ...