As stocks gyrate in response to President Trump’s on-again, off-again tariffs, the world is understandably focused on the immediate chaos affecting the global economy. Yet over the past few months a number of signals have […]
Tag: Regulation and Deregulation of Industry
Trump Signs Executive Orders Aimed at Reviving U.S. Coal Industry
President Trump signed four executive orders Tuesday aimed at expanding the mining and use of coal in the United States, in an effort to revive the struggling industry. Flanked by dozens of miners in white […]
Small Businesses Face a ‘Tornado’ of Challenges: Cuts, Freezes and Now Tariffs
It was a bad week for Ben Coryell, who runs a wilderness guiding company in Golden, Colo. He got several calls from customers who wanted to cancel their climbing courses and mountaineering expeditions over the […]
Chemical Industry Asks Trump for Exemption From Pollution Limits
Two chemical industry groups are asking President Trump for a complete exemption to free their factories from new limits on hazardous air pollution. Under a new rule finalized by the Biden administration last year, chemical […]
Powell Warns Trump’s Tariffs Risk Stoking Even Higher Inflation and Slower Growth
Jerome H. Powell, the chair of the Federal Reserve, warned that President Trump’s tariffs risk stoking even higher inflation and slower growth than initially expected, as he struck a more downbeat tone about the outlook, […]