Mary Anastasia O’Grady

3 days ago | wsj.com | Mary Anastasia O’Grady

Havana targets foreign-company profits as it shrinks public bread rations. Cuba’s communist dictatorship is broke and seems to have run out of suckers who might lend it more. This month we learned that it’s turned to confiscating dollars and euros from foreign businesses on the island. It may get a few million. But going after corporate profits is like hanging a “closed” sign on the moribund economy. The regime’s desperation is no mystery.

1 week ago | wsj.com | Mary Anastasia O’Grady

From now on Guatemalan growers and sewing factories—which under the Central American Free Trade Agreement must use U.S. cotton and yarn—will pay a 10% tariff to sell their goods in the U.S. Lest suppliers think they can go around Guatemala, the U.S. is putting the same rate on exports from Honduras and El Salvador. The nuttiness behind the Trump trade war has no limits.

1 week ago | wsj.com | Mary Anastasia O’Grady

From now on Guatemalan growers and sewing factories—which under the Central American Free Trade Agreement must use U.S. cotton and yarn—will pay a 10% tariff to sell their goods in the U.S. Lest suppliers think they can go around Guatemala, the U.S. is putting the same rate on exports from Honduras and El Salvador. The nuttiness behind the Trump trade war has no limits.

2 weeks ago | wsj.com | Mary Anastasia O’Grady

A broken monetary system is restraining Milei’s progress. Go for the greenback. Argentina’s Foreign Minister Gerardo Werthein met with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer on Tuesday in Washington. The Argentine ministry said the discussion with Mr. Greer was “to strengthen bilateral trade and begin laying the groundwork for a solid trade agreement.”That seems to have been a tad optimistic. On Wednesday President Trump launched a trade war with the world.

3 weeks ago | wsj.com | Mary Anastasia O’Grady

Mr. Poilievre is an advocate for using Canadian energy to create wealth and raise living standards. A Carney government would continue the green policies of former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, also of the Liberal Party. So the choice is between a pro-growth agenda, leveraging the country’s rich oil and gas deposits, or sticking with the tired, old enviro-populism of the past decade. That approach has made Canadians the poor cousins of the Yanks.