15 h. ago Breitbart Business Digest: The Fed's Strange New Battle Lines

Donald Trump gained an unexpected ally Monday in his fight with the Federal Reserve: Governor Lisa Cook, the Fed official he attempted to fire this summer. The post Breitbart Business Digest: The Fed’s Strange New Battle Lines appeared first on Breitbart.

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4 d. ago Breitbart Business Digest: Fact Checking Harvard’s Flawed Tariff Study

The recent Harvard Business School study on tariffs is deeply flawed in ways that undermine confidence in its findings. The post Breitbart Business Digest: Fact Checking Harvard’s Flawed Tariff Study appeared first on Breitbart.

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5 d. ago Breitbart Business Digest: The Wealth of Foreign Nations Depends on America's Endless Budget Deficits

Each year, more of what Americans buy is made abroad, and more of what Americans earn comes from borrowing that replaces the income lost to trade. The system sustains itself not through productivity but through the continual creation of dollar assets. The post Breitbart Business Digest: The Wealth of Foreign Nations Depends on America’s Endless Budget Deficits appeared first on Breitbart.

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6 d. ago Breitbart Business Digest: The Hidden Cost of America’s Trade Deficit Is a Permanent Budget Deficit

The U.S. fiscal deficit is the mirror of the trade deficit. Attempts to close one without addressing the other merely shift the imbalance around the balance sheet. The post Breitbart Business Digest: The Hidden Cost of America’s Trade Deficit Is a Permanent Budget Deficit appeared first on Breitbart.

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1 week ago Breitbart Business Digest: The Week Trump Danced Circles Around His Critics, China, and Putin

Tariffs still aren’t raising prices, Putin got sanctioned again, and Democrats are shattered by chandeliers—all that and more in the Friday Breitbart Business Digest weekly wrap. The post Breitbart Business Digest: The Week Trump Danced Circles Around His Critics, China, and Putin appeared first on Breitbart.

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1 week ago Breitbart Business Digest: The Fed’s Inflation Expectations Are the Only Thing Unanchored

A new paper from researchers at the Boston Fed warns of another inflation surge. But their warning rests on questionable measurement choices, contradictory data, and a misleading citation of academic research. The post Breitbart Business Digest: The Fed’s Inflation Expectations Are the Only Thing Unanchored appeared first on Breitbart.

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1 week ago Breitbart Business Digest: The Tariff Inflation Scare Is Dead

For months, critics of President Trump's tariff strategy have warned of an inevitable wave of inflation. That wave turned out to be a ripple, and it seems to have already ended. The post Breitbart Business Digest: The Tariff Inflation Scare Is Dead appeared first on Breitbart.

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1 week ago Breitbart Business Digest: Why America Needs a Price Floor for Rare Earths to Break China's Monopoly

China’s thirty-year price war shows that “market forces” alone can’t build a secure supply chain. The post Breitbart Business Digest: Why America Needs a Price Floor for Rare Earths to Break China’s Monopoly appeared first on Breitbart.

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2 w. ago Breitbart Business Digest: The Fed’s Last Tarifflation Study Gets Trump’s Tariffs Wrong Again

The St. Louis Federal Reserve released a study claiming that Trump's tariffs added roughly 0.5 percentage points to consumer inflation. There's just one problem: the study didn't actually show that. The post Breitbart Business Digest: The Fed’s Last Tarifflation Study Gets Trump’s Tariffs Wrong Again appeared first on Breitbart.

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2 w. ago Breitbart Business Digest: Trump Offers Bold New Plan to Break China’s Rare Earth Monopoly

The Trump administration floated a bold idea to break China's monopoly on rare earth minerals and attract long-term investment in U.S. rare earth production. The post Breitbart Business Digest: Trump Offers Bold New Plan to Break China’s Rare Earth Monopoly appeared first on Breitbart.

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2 w. ago Breitbart Business Digest: Judge's Ruling Blocking Trump’s Shutdown Cuts Turns Federal Bureaucracy into a Protected Class

A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from proceeding with mass layoffs of federal employees during the government shutdown, calling the move “unprecedented” and “the epitome of hasty, arbitrary, and capricious decisionmaking.” The post Breitbart Business Digest: Judge’s Ruling Blocking Trump’s Shutdown Cuts Turns Federal Bureaucracy into a Protected Class appeared first on Breitbart.

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2 w. ago US budget deficit dips in fiscal 2025 on boost from tariffs, education spending cuts

US budget deficit dips in fiscal 2025 on boost from tariffs, education spending cuts  Reuters

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2 w. ago U.S. budget deficit edged lower in 2025 as tariffs, debt payments both saw new records

U.S. budget deficit edged lower in 2025 as tariffs, debt payments both saw new records  CNBC

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2 w. ago US budget deficit falls $41 billion to $1.775 trillion in fiscal 2025

US budget deficit falls $41 billion to $1.775 trillion in fiscal 2025  Reuters

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2 w. ago Breitbart Business Digest: Creative Destruction vs. Chinese Destruction

Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt's Nobel Prize-winning research exposes why China’s systematic IP theft violates the core conditions required for innovation to flourish. The post Breitbart Business Digest: Creative Destruction vs. Chinese Destruction appeared first on Breitbart.

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3 w. ago Breitbart Business Digest: A Nobel Prize Vindicates Brexit and Trumpian Economics

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics is a major milestone for the economic nationalism that fueled the election of Donald Trump and popular support for Brexit. The post Breitbart Business Digest: A Nobel Prize Vindicates Brexit and Trumpian Economics appeared first on Breitbart.

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3 w. ago Breibart Business Digest: 25 Years of China’s Advantage and America’s Amnesia

Twenty-five years after we opened our markets to China, Beijing celebrated the anniversary by closing its own markets. The post Breibart Business Digest: 25 Years of China’s Advantage and America’s Amnesia appeared first on Breitbart.

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3 w. ago Breitbart Business Digest: Six Months After Liberation Day, Every Economic Prediction About Trump's Tariffs Was Wrong

At every turn, the real-world evidence contradicts the theoretical objections to Trump's tariffs. The post Breitbart Business Digest: Six Months After Liberation Day, Every Economic Prediction About Trump’s Tariffs Was Wrong appeared first on Breitbart.

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3 w. ago Breitbart Business Digest: Liberal Gloomdogglers Hate the Trump Economy

The Democrats are once again a party of Gloomdogglers. It's hard to know how much of their pessimism about the economy is simply partisanship or genuine gloominess. The post Breitbart Business Digest: Liberal Gloomdogglers Hate the Trump Economy appeared first on Breitbart.

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4 w. ago Breitbart Business Digest: Why a Cooling Labor Market Hasn’t Cooled Confidence

You would not know it from the gloom-ridden headlines of the financial media, but Americans are feeling a bit better about their personal finances than they were a year ago. The post Breitbart Business Digest: Why a Cooling Labor Market Hasn’t Cooled Confidence appeared first on Breitbart.

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