Scott Lincicome

Raleigh, Washington, D.C., United States

Vice President, General Economics and Trade at Cato Institute

@CatoInstitute Vice President (Econ/Trade), @DukeLaw adjunct, @TheDispatch newsletter-er. CH❤️RTS. You didn't read the article, did you? Go @Rangers.

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Articles

Busting 'Manufacturing Jobs' Myths

1 week ago | cato.org | Scott Lincicome

Other data reveal similar disinterest. Reason’s Jack Nicastro, for example, notes that both total U.S. manufacturing employment and the sector’s unemployment rate declined between August 2024 and March 2025, thus indicating that “workers are leaving the manufacturing labor force by choice,” not by necessity.
Let's Talk About SCOTUSblog

2 weeks ago | thedispatch.com | Sarah Isgur |Scott Lincicome |Charlotte Lawson

Learn more about our recent acquisition of SCOTUSblog. By and Published April 30, 2025 On this special livestreamed conversation, Steve Hayes and Sarah Isgur discussed our recent acquisition of SCOTUSblog and chatted with the newest Dispatcher, Amy Howe, about our plans to build out an extended universe of legal coverage and all things Supreme Court.
Busting ‘Manufacturing Jobs’ Myths

2 weeks ago | thedispatch.com | Scott Lincicome

A longstanding goal of American politicians on the left and the right—including and especially the last two U.S. presidents—is to boost not just American manufacturing but American manufacturing jobs.
How Trump’s Tariffs Are Destroying One US Business and Why Its CEO Is Suing to Stop Them

2 weeks ago | cato.org | Scott Lincicome

Over the last few weeks, my Cato colleagues and I have extensively documented the harms that the Trump administration’s haphazard trade policy is imposing on millions of Americans—both consumers facing higher retail prices and businesses hit with higher costs.
Reciprocal tariffs done wrong

2 weeks ago | deseret.com | Scott Lincicome

Core to President Donald Trump's view of global trade is the notion of "reciprocity" - that the United States should do to other countries' exports what they do to ours. The idea, which Trump has embraced for decades, has a certain seductive simplicity: Isn't it only fair that "we" charge "them" what "they" charge "us," and that if "they" want relatively free access to "our" market, then "we" should have the same in "theirs"?
Reciprocity done wrong

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Scott Lincicome

Core to President Donald Trump’s view of global trade is the notion of “reciprocity” — that the United States should do to other countries’ exports what they do to ours. The idea, which Trump has embraced for decades, has a certain seductive simplicity: Isn’t it only fair that “we” charge “them” what “they” charge “us,” and that if “they” want relatively free access to “our” market, then “we” should have the same in “theirs”?
Reinventing the Trade Deal Wheel, Only Much Worse

2 weeks ago | cato.org | Scott Lincicome

Ignoring past process and doing stuff on “Trump time” won’t make these obstacles magically go away.
Reinventing the Trade Deal Wheel, Only Much Worse

3 weeks ago | thedispatch.com | Scott Lincicome

One of the reasons stock markets rejoiced when President Donald Trump announced a 90-day pause of his now-infamous “reciprocal” tariffs was the belief (hope?) that the messy episode might result in not only those tariffs never being imposed but also new and important agreements with now-closed countries around the world.
Trump's Luxury Beliefs (with Scott Lincicome)

3 weeks ago | thebulwark.com | Sarah Longwell |Scott Lincicome

Trump has plunged the markets into chaos over the last couple of weeks with his tariffing, and un-tariffing, and possible re-tariffing. The Biden-to-Trump voters we've talked to were a mixed bag on this. Scott Lincicome, author of The Dispatch's economics newsletter Capitolism and Vice President of general economics at the Cato Institute, joins Sarah to listen to how the trade war is trickling down to voters and where it all might go from here.
Actually, Wall Street (Kinda) Is Main Street

3 weeks ago | cato.org | Scott Lincicome

And tariffs are harming both. April 17, 2025 • Commentary This article appeared in The Dispatch on April 17, 2025. Recent tariff-related turmoil in the U.S. stock market has motivated several Trump administration officials and many of their online allies to shrug it off as unrepresentative of the “real” U.S. economy.