U.S. oil prices fell sharply, briefly dipping below $60 a barrel on Sunday — their lowest level in almost four years — as the economic fallout from President Trump’s latest round of tariffs reverberated around […]
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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 […]
Britain Tried Everything, Including a Royal Invite. It Got a 10% Tariff.
After all that — the chummy Oval Office meeting, the extraordinary royal invitation, the paeans to the “special relationship” — Britain and its solicitous prime minister, Keir Starmer, still got swept into President Trump’s tariffs, […]
Fact-Checking Trump’s Claim About Egg Prices
President Trump, as he announced sweeping tariffs, batted away “very tired predictions” from critics of his economic agenda by citing a large decline in the price of eggs. “The price of eggs dropped now 59 […]
The Job Market Has Been Resilient. The Trade War Could Be Its Undoing.
For three years, the U.S. economy has been buffeted by rapid inflation, high interest rates and political instability at home and abroad. Yet it has proved surprisingly resilient, supported by the sturdy pillars of robust […]
