A local political scientist explains what President Donald Trump predicts will happen with global tariffs. Western Carolina University Political Science Professor Dr. Chris Cooper said Trump's favorability numbers have slipped.

The tariffs were fueling the strongest GOP pushback since Trump's inauguration, though Speaker Mike Johnson defended them

In 2021, as the US economy recovered from the pandemic, consumer prices began to creep higher. Federal Reserve officials said then that rising inflation would only be “transitory.”

Reciprocal tariffs could hit the S&P 500’s (SP500) operating income by 32%, according to Bank of America. “There is no tariff playbook,” wrote Savita Subramanian, head of U.S. Equity Strategy & U.S. Quantitative Strategy,

The market selloff will put pressure on Jerome Powell to deliver quick rate cuts, Christopher Smart writes in a guest commentary.

President Donald Trump's new tariffs elicited threats of retaliation from foreign leaders and led to U.S. stocks suffering major losses on Thursday.

President Donald Trump’s tariffs aren’t just an economic disruption. They’re a security one. His program, if implemented as planned, could muddle global supply chains the Pentagon has spent decades creating,