Powell said he agreed that countries that pursue free-trade policies enjoy faster economic growth and higher consumer incomes ...

This arrangement changed with the introduction of the Income Tax in 1913. Now, there was an alternative to using tariffs to ...

The study finds that Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) boost economic activity, particularly in urban and industrialized areas, ...

President Trump has proposed a sweeping set of tariffs. Does this mark the end of the post-war free trade world?

The "China Shock" is revisited, and it raises questions about why economists failed to see the costs of free trade.

Allison Schrager, Senior Fellow at Manhattan Institute and Columnist at Bloomberg Opinion discusses the implications of the ...

Recent discussions about international trade have centered on the United States’ economic relationships with Canada and ...

A reckoning is in order, not just with Trumpism but with the assumptions that made it possible in the first place ...

Countries with democratic governments and mostly free economies should come together and create a new trade regime, based on ...

President Trump’s tariffs on Canada, China and Mexico could upend U.S. trade. These nine charts show what’s at stake, what ...

After Trump slapped tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China, economists of Left and Right called him a lunatic: protectionism ...

While some view these deficits as economic losses, economists generally consider them natural outcomes of free market operations. The current trade situation reflects complex economic ...