Donald Trump acknowledged that his tariffs will likely make things worse, not better.

Donald Trump has moved on from the plane crash in Washington, it seems.

Scott Bessent tried to polish the president’s big economic policy turd at his confirmation hearing. It’s still a turd.

Donald Trump has his first targets in mind as he bypasses Congress.

Make government efficient again.

The oligarchs’ bet that the president-elect would retreat on promises that might mess with their wealth is paying off.

Tariffs and deregulation may seem like they’re designed to please U.S. automakers. But doubling down on massive gas-guzzlers will make it even harder for American companies to compete abroad.

Reducing foreign governments’ revenue means reducing the money they have to implement climate adaptation and mitigation policies.

And if they are—should someone do something about that?

Collaboration with Chinese firms may sound counterintuitive. But U.S. automakers are already doing it.

Biden is accusing China of doing exactly what the U.S. oil industry did.

First, Trump slapped tariffs on China. Now Biden has increased them. Is this wise economic policy or just political one-upmanship?

President Joe Biden pledged to stop financing such projects overseas, and yet the U.S. Export-Import Bank continues to do so.

While Biden’s industrial policy law has sparked no small amount of panic overseas, the end result could be the best kind of international competition.

Demanding E.V. parts be made domestically could slow down the energy transition—or, alternatively, fall afoul of free trade policies the United States has worked hard to enact.

China is trying to shut U.S. companies out of Southeast Asia. We can’t let that happen.

Chuck Schumer’s U.S. Innovation and Competition Act shows the perils of trying to pass climate policy to make America more “competitive.”

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has created a global nickel shortage. Here’s what happened when the Führer tried to buy extra nickel right before the last time a major war broke out in Europe.

The most important politician to ever hail from Nevada, the late senator never forgot his hardscrabble beginnings and the promises he made to the American people.

The so-called carbon border adjustment mechanism proposed by Democratic Senator Chris Coons this week is going to be pretty hard to implement.