Benn Steil

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The Dispatch: Aristotle Warned Us to Guard the Middle Class
September 9, 2025
By Benn Steil
The Hill: MAGA is destroying Madisonian democracy
September 9, 2025
By Benn Steil
Will Trump’s Firing of the Labor-Data Chief Raise U.S. Financing Costs?
August 5, 2025
By Benn Steil
Trump’s Japanese and EU Investment Boasts Contradict His Claims of a Trade Deficit "Emergency"
July 29, 2025
By Benn Steil
What Trump Trade Policy Has Achieved Since ‘Liberation Day’
July 7, 2025
By Inu Manak, Rebecca Patterson, Zongyuan Zoe Liu, Shannon K. O'Neil, Brad W. Setser, Edward Alden, Benn Steil, Jonathan E. Hillman and Will Freeman
Section 232 Tariffs and the Relentless Rise of U.S. “National Security” Protectionism
June 18, 2025
By Benn Steil
Meeting
Chicago Roundtable: The World That Wasn't—Henry Wallace and the Fate of the American Century
May 27, 2025
CFR Sovereign Risk Tracker
May 21, 2025
By Benn Steil
What is an “International Emergency,” and Who Gets to Decide?
May 16, 2025
By Benn Steil
Could Trump’s Tariffs Replace Income Tax for the Bottom 90%?
April 24, 2025
By Benn Steil and Elisabeth Harding
Meeting
Countering China’s Trade Practices With Investment Tax Policy
April 8, 2025
Steel Productivity has Plummeted Since Trump’s 2018 Tariffs
March 6, 2025
By Benn Steil and Elisabeth Harding
Trump Wants the Dollar to Be Mighty But Weak. It Makes No Sense.
February 24, 2025
By Benn Steil
A Better Tool to Counter China’s Unfair Trade Practices
February 19, 2025
By Benn Steil and Alex Raskolnikov
Dollar Undervalued on CFR Mini Mac Index
February 12, 2025
By Benn Steil and Elisabeth Harding
The Growth Hit From Trump’s Tariffs
February 6, 2025
By Benn Steil and Elisabeth Harding
Where Will Trump’s Tariff Revenues Go? His First Term Provides a Big Clue.
February 3, 2025
By Benn Steil and Elisabeth Harding
Meeting
Media Briefing: Bracing for a Trade War
February 3, 2025
Why the Fed Should Stop Forward Guidance
January 31, 2025
By Benn Steil and Elisabeth Harding
Meeting
Transition 2025 Series: Tariffs and Trade
January 23, 2025
Soaring Abuse of “National Security” Exceptions Has Wrecked the Multilateral Trading System
December 19, 2024
By Benn Steil and Elisabeth Harding
How Washington Killed the World Trade Organization
December 12, 2024
By Benn Steil and Elisabeth Harding
How Trump Can Control the Fed
November 18, 2024
By Benn Steil and Elisabeth Harding
China’s Central Bank is Becoming the Developing World’s “Payday Lender”
October 22, 2024
By Benn Steil and Elisabeth Harding