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Could Jay Powell Restrain Trump?

2 months 3 weeks ago
Today on TAP: Trump’s destructive tariff policies could well require emergency Fed intervention that Powell doesn’t want. Will the Fed chair have the nerve to challenge Trump?
Robert Kuttner

Sorry, but It’s Not Over

2 months 3 weeks ago
Today on TAP: Trump blinks for now, but he remains a bundle of contradictory impulses and grievances. So the wholly invented economic crisis will continue.
Robert Kuttner

The Great Trump Crash?

2 months 3 weeks ago
Emergency warnings are lighting up all over financial markets, solely because of Donald Trump.
Ryan Cooper

We Never Had Free Trade

2 months 3 weeks ago
The U.S. trading system since the 1970s has screwed American workers. But the main culprits are the American capitalists who devised the system, not foreigners.
Robert Kuttner