Mr. Neiman was a Biden administration Treasury official who co-wrote trade-related academic research cited by the Trump White House. My first question, when the White House unveiled its tariff regime, ...

Donald Trump blinked, and his massive new trade war has been drastically scaled back. Or, maybe not? Perhaps he’s just tweaking the details during a partial 90-day pause, and he preps other, different ...

Fareed Zakaria asks Bill Gates how damaging he thinks Trump’s tariffs are. Hear his response ...

The White House’s new tariffs were pegged to amounts it said other countries impose on the U.S. In many cases, those amounts appear to match a basic formula: the size of a country's goods-trade ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A Chicago economist in now at the center of the firestorm surrounding President Donald Trump's tariff policy. University of Chicago Booth School of Business economist Brent Neiman ...

President Trump's new tariffs on more than 100 countries used the same simple formula to calculate the rate for each of them. The formula’s central value is the trade deficit, the difference between ...

‘Trump chickened out’: Chinese social media mocks Trump on trade ...

President Donald Trump introduced his “discounted reciprocal tariffs” on over 200 countries on April 2. Most countries receive a base tariff rate of 10%, but for countries receiving more, the rates ...

President Donald Trump’s formula for imposing tariffs on dozens of nations has confounded economists who say it not based on well-established methodologies and suggests that the administration is ...

When President Donald Trump initially announced his new tariffs in February, he proposed them as a “fair and reciprocal plan on trade.” And so it was assumed that these reciprocal tariffs, as they are ...

Journalist with 30 years in news writing for CNN, KLAS-TV, WCMH-TV, Newsweek, Mediaite, and RawStory. Author of the award-nominated non-fiction book, "Stealing Sisi's Star," now a serial podcast for ...