What is President Trump really trying to do with his tariff plan: Is it to protect American jobs, is it about leveling the playing field, or is it about taking the head out of the economy?

Tariffs now rival those of the storied Smoot-Hawley Act that prompted massive retaliations and a global trade war in the 1930s, events that prolonged the Great Depression. Trump—always inscrutable—may ...

US President Donald Trump’s widest-ranging tariffs to date took effect Saturday, in a move which could trigger retaliation and escalating trade tensions that could upset the global economy. A 10 ...

If there’s a mirror image opposite to Donald Trump’s second-term blitz, it’s Franklin D. Roosevelt, whose first 100 days in ...

Part of the administration’s argument for starting a trade war with these tariffs boils down to this magical thinking: ...

Four political scientists told Business Insider Congress has the power to stop Donald Trump's tariff plan, but there's almost ...

President Donald Trump announced his gargantuan "Liberation Day" tariffs. They impose 10% tariffs on imports from almost ...

As if investors didn't have enough to worry about, they can now add an open breach between President Donald Trump and the chair of the Federal Reserve during an economic crisis and a financial ...

President Donald Trump has imposed sweeping global tariffs based on his purported authority under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977. The president has declared the trade deficit ...

Amid an escalating series of national security scandals, President Donald Trump extended his delay of Congress’s mandated ...

Hardware is a big chunk of Apple's business and contributes about 80% of its revenue. A recent set of estimates from J.P. Morgan projected that the company would need to raise prices by 6% globally to ...

In the iconic movie shot in and around Chicago four decades ago, writer, actor and economics guru Ben Stein plays a high ...