As the new tariff regime is launched, its impact on the United States, the targeted countries, and the global economy is increasingly challenging to predict. After identifying China as a foreign “adversary”, the United States has doubled down on aggressive policies aimed at inflicting economic pain to weaken China’s manufacturing, military, and geopolitical capabilities.

Dr. notes that China’s trade ties are well-diversified, and the shift away from the US market will take no longer than two years. The new tariffs are unlikely to yield better results than the tariff regime imposed on China during President Donald Trump’s first term. In fact, China has already won the technology race. Warwick underscored that tariffs alone would not “bring manufacturing back to the United States”; instead, policies to reduce the dominance of the finance sector, raise substantial investments in infrastructure, and create highly skilled, well-educated human capital should be prioritized.

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Today is Liberation Day in the U.S., as declared by President Trump but we don’t exactly know what that means yet. We know it means tariffs for other countries but…is there a cuisine we should eat to celebrate or a ritual of sorts for the rest of us?

I don’t think it is that kind of holiday. It is an economic milestone when the Trump administration will set taxes on imports from other countries that tax U.S. exports. He calls them “reciprocal” tariffs.

Not all Republicans support the President on this one. Senator Rand Paul co-sponsored a bill to terminate the emergency legislation that will place tariffs on Canada. Other Republicans have joined the efforts to stop the tarriffs, which President Trump said would “let the Democrats have a Victory. It would be devastating for the Republican Party and, far more importantly, for the United States.”

Economists are divided on the tariff idea so there really is no way to know what will happen. The best we can do right now is…hold on. Like we have been.

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The Trump administration admitted that it accidentally deported the wrong guy but it’s okay because that guy was a gang member.

The case involves a man named Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia. He was sent to the megaprison in El Salvador that Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem showed off last week. His wife saw him in a news report about the prison and pointed him out to the government.

“Although ICE was aware of his protection from removal to El Salvador, Abrego Garcia was removed to El Salvador because of an administrative error,” the court document says.

Trump cabinet members are arguing that the man was an MS-13 gang member with “no legal right to be here.”

But how do they know that he was a gang member? Was he convicted of gang membership or gang-related crime? He wasn’t. In a 2019 immigration proceeding, a confidential informant claimed he was a gang member and said that his clothing was proof.

Abrego Garcia refutes this. He is a father with no criminal record, a union sheet metal worker and he complied with his regular ICE checkins.

The police never followed up for evidence so none of us can truly know. That is why we need due process for every human being created by God. The government is not God and should not have the power to do this. As Reason reporter Liz Wolfe put it: “We hold ourselves to a higher standard than that, we believe in due process here, and that’s what makes America great. There will be political consequences to Trump admin’s sloppiness.”

The ACLU says that the government has a list of how it identifies gangmembers including “high-end urban street wear,” Michael Jordan’s basketball jersey, and “sports attire from U.S. professional sports teams with Venezuelan nationals on them” as Tren de Aragua identifiers.

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New data shows that the economy was good in the first month of President Trump’s second term. Data from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) Personal Income and Outlays Report show that consumer spending was up .4% in February 2025.

Also, incomes were up by .9%. According to the report, “personal income increased $194.7 billion (0.8 percent at a monthly rate) in February, according to estimates released today by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. Disposable personal income (DPI)—personal income less personal current taxes—increased $191.6 billion (0.9 percent) and personal consumption expenditures (PCE) increased $87.8 billion (0.4 percent).”

Maybe it was because the liberal Economic Blackout handing started yet? That began on February 28 so until then, Americans were making more money and spending more money.

Economist Peter St. Onge said that this could still lead to a paper recession because these numbers are maybe a little “too good.” He says that there should be a bigger hangover from the Biden administration.

But will this economic upturn last through new tariff wars?

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How can a 3 year old get kicked out of school for being transphobic? That is what happened in the U.K, according to The Telegraph:

“Department for Education (DfE) data show the child, aged either three or four, was suspended from a state school in the 2022-23 academic year for “abuse against sexual orientation and gender identity.”

How in the world can a 3 or 4 year old abuse someone’s gender orientation? A safe guess would be that a young child saw that his or her classmate was clearly a boy or a girl but pretending to be otherwise and pointed that out.

The Telegraph goes on: “statistics show that 94 pupils at state primary schools were suspended or permanently excluded for transphobia and homophobia in 2022-23.” They don’t give further details on the case but to protect gender identity to the point of kicking children out of schools is outrageous.

The Prime Minister’s office responded to this by saying “Obviously, the Prime Minister would not support those sorts of measures. But equally, I don’t know the specific incident.”

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