During the 2016 campaign, candidate Trump made an important Big Promise with two facets: to bring back American jobs from other countries (especially China) and to eliminate the American trade deficit. But, as pointed out by Barack Obama in his farewell address, many of the American jobs ...
Less than a month into his second term, US President Donald Trump launched a new round of trade wars, using tariffs as a weapon to advance the United States' interests. On Feb 1, Trump signed an executive order, imposing 10 percent tariffs on Chinese goods and 25 percent tariffs on Canadi...
which is an intuitively appealing outcome for supporters of economic liberty. But that Index also shows the United States ranking #50 out of 55 nations. Since I regularly criticizethe statist elements of the American health system, I don’t object to the U.S. getting...
United States Military Trump: Military recruitment is up due to him The U.S. is seeing an upswing in military recruitment. President Trump has repeatedly taken credit for the recent rise, even remarking that no one wanted to join the service before his reelection. CBS News Confirmed team ...
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Dozens of Mendocino County employees plan to resign this summer as part of a voluntary separation program the county is implementing as it faces a multi-million-dollar budget deficit, the Board of Supervisors said at its meeting Tuesday.
US president said EU has been ‘very bad to us’ but trade deficit will ‘disappear fast’ Mon Apr 07 2025 - 22:17 Trump says Iran would be in ‘great danger’ if direct talks fail US president says Middle East country ‘cannot have a nuclear weapon’ Mon Apr 07 2025 - 21:30 Trump...
Biden notes "remarkable sweep of history" in his final U.N. speech as president "I know many look at the world today and see difficulties and react with despair," President Biden said before the United Nations General Assemby. "But I do not." ...
Several agencies, such as the United States Agency for International Development and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, have been severely downsized. As of this writing, the president is expected to issue an executive order that eliminates all functions that are not statutorily mandated by Con...
The United States balance of payments deficit declined sharply. Nevertheless, by any other test, the deficit remained very large, and there was actually a substantial deterioration in our trade account to a sizable deficit, almost two thirds of which was with Japan. While the overall trade ...