2025-06-09

Chinese exports to the U.S. are cratering despite a trade truce

Even as fresh trade talks get underway in London, and despite the trade truce struck in early May, Chinese exports to the U.S. are cratering. Shipments dropped 35% in May, the sharpest year-over-year [...]

2025-04-09

Trump announces 90-day pause on tariffs, excluding China

President Donald Trump has announced a 90-day pause on the sweeping tariff plan that went into effect on Wednesday, April 9, and an increase to 125 percent on the tariff on imports from China. Even wi [...]

2025-05-23

Trump threatens a 25 percent tariff on all smartphones not made in the US

After threatening Apple with a 25 percent tariff unless the company found a way to move iPhone production to the US, Bloomberg reports that President Donald Trump wants the tariff applied to other pho [...]

2025-03-12

Where to sell your used and unwanted gadgets

Springtime is a period of renewal – and that often includes new iterations of all your favorite gadgets. Laptops and phones and even game consoles are all getting a new look on the outside and new s [...]

2025-02-02

Trump’s tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China could drive up prices of cars, electronics, fuel, food and more

On Saturday evening, Trump signed executive orders to impose tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), with a White House fact sheet claiming t [...]

2025-02-01

What will happen to TikTok? A look at the potential buyers.

TikTok may be back online, but the app’s future in the United States is still far from certain. President Donald Trump’s executive order delaying enforcement of the ban was only a temporary reprie [...]

2025-07-28

Trump temporarily drops export controls to smooth negotiations with China

After previously saying that the US would block exports of key AI chips to China, Donald Trump's administration may have backtracked. The US will now temporarily block restriction on exports of c [...]

2025-03-07

Trump's federal Bitcoin reserve order leaves the crypto market unenthused

With US stocks unstable, consumer confidence in the economy plunging and whispers of a potential recession growing less muted, the economy under President Donald Trump's second term has been abou [...]

2025-05-12

The trade war ends with Trump blinking — for now

If you blinked, you might have missed the president who built his economic agenda on tariffs quietly turning the page on the U.S.-China trade war — for now — with barely a whisper of the fire and [...]