Andrew Yang

1 week ago | blog.andrewyang.com | Andrew Yang

Hello, I hope that you’re doing great. The current administration keeps fumbling the ball as economic optimism is slipping away; GDP officially shrank in the first quarter due to Trump's tariffs. Meanwhile, Democrats are infighting. More Americans are souring on each party as their popularity descends to record lows. People ask me all the time what the future of Independent politics looks like in the United States. Recently, I’ve been responding with two words:“Mike Duggan.”Who is Mike?

2 weeks ago | blog.andrewyang.com | Andrew Yang

What is Project 2025? You kind of know. But what is it really? That’s the question David A. Graham of the Atlantic set out to answer in his punchy new book, “The Project: How Project 2025 is Reshaping America” which comes out next week. I interviewed David for the podcast. “You probably haven’t read Project 2025 because it’s a 900-page document with 70 different authors,” David notes. Project 2025 was produced under the auspices of the Heritage Foundation, a fifty-year old conservative thinktank.

3 weeks ago | blog.andrewyang.com | Andrew Yang

Do you know of anyone who rushed out to buy a phone last week to avoid a possible price spike from the tariffs? If you do, you're not alone. And companies are doing the same thing. I spoke to a big investor, who shared this: "My companies pulled all of their orders up and ordered everything they could for the rest of the year to avoid the tariffs. One of them sent a fleet of trucks to Mexico and packed everything that they could. I think the second quarter will look fine.

1 month ago | blog.andrewyang.com | Andrew Yang

What a time in American life. Our President initiates a trade war, the markets tremble, and then he pulls back on most of it. But the damage is done. Consumer confidence is plummeting. Tourism is down. The appetite for dollars and American debt is shaky. Companies are scaling back. Credit card delinquencies are rising. The probability of a recession has spiked.

1 month ago | andrewyang.com | Andrew Yang

What a time in American life. Our President initiates a trade war, the markets tremble, and then he pulls back on most of it. But the damage is done. Consumer confidence is plummeting. Tourism is down. The appetite for dollars and American debt is shaky. Companies are scaling back. Credit card delinquencies are rising. The probability of a recession has spiked.