The Buffalo Chronicle
Trade Policy
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Ottawa’s watchdog prices the trade war: a smaller economy, bigger deficits and a budget target propped up by tariffs on U.S. goods
Canada’s Parliamentary Budget Office says the tariffs traded since 2025 will leave the economy 1.4% smaller and could cost up to 185,000 jobs, while Ottawa’s near-balanced budget target leans on counter-tariffs paid…
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SCISSORS: Parsing the ‘China Deal’ facts sheet
BY DEREK SCISSORS “Fact sheets” are public relations efforts. So it’s telling that the fact sheet for the US-China trade deal announced last week is not convincing — phase 1 is in fact a…
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Tea Party sees a “Rust Belt Recovery Act” as next step in China trade war
Matthew Ricchiazzi, New York State’s leading Tea Party activist, is calling on President Donald Trump to propose a “Rust Belt Recovery Act” just ahead of midterm elections this November. “We need to…
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It was a high price to pay to get more for your money today
I heard this song on NPR, and thought it was a compelling critique of the bipartisan destruction of American manufacturing and the increasingly centralized economy that has emerged over the last several decades of…
