Stephen Mihm

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Columnist at Bloomberg (https://t.co/tb9ywkCa0I). Historian of business, technology, and finance. Orchardist. Swimmer. Sleep-deprived father of three.

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Today’s Tariff Mess Is 100 Years In the Making: Stephen Mihm

6 days ago | news.bloombergtax.com | Stephen Mihm

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Today’s Tariff Mess Is 100 Years In the Making: Stephen Mihm

6 days ago | news.bloomberglaw.com | Stephen Mihm

Donald Trump loves tariffs, and he has not hesitated to wield them frequently, if not indiscriminately. He’s used duties to target almost every nation, only to roll many of them back. Yet each retreat has often been followed by more tariffs, rattling markets and trading partners. It’s tempting to condemn this as more Trumpian excess, but Congress deserves a good share of blame for our current predicament.
Congress Set the Stage for Today’s Tariff Mess 100 Years Ago

6 days ago | bloomberg.com | Stephen Mihm

It wasn’t meant to be this way. (Bloomberg Opinion) -- Donald Trump loves tariffs, and he has not hesitated to wield them frequently, if not indiscriminately. He’s used duties to target almost every nation, only to roll many of them back. Yet each retreat has often been followed by more tariffs, rattling markets and trading partners. It’s tempting to condemn this as more Trumpian excess, but Congress deserves a good share of blame for our current predicament.
Stephen Mihm: The atomic bomb set the stage for the college funding fight

4 weeks ago | twincities.com | Stephen Mihm

In recent weeks, the nation’s most selective universities have been waking up to a new reality: the billions of dollars in federal funding that have long sustained them now come with strings attached. The Trump administration has put Columbia, Harvard, and Princeton on notice, threatening to withhold research funds unless they accede to political demands. How did the nation’s elite research universities end up in such an exquisitely vulnerable position?
Stephen Mihm: The atomic bomb set the stage for the college funding fight

1 month ago | triblive.com | Stephen Mihm

In recent weeks, the nation’s most selective universities have been waking up to a new reality: the billions of dollars in federal funding that have long sustained them now come with strings attached. The Trump administration has put Columbia, Harvard and Princeton on notice, threatening to withhold research funds unless they accede to political demands. How did the nation’s elite research universities end up in such an exquisitely vulnerable position?
Stephen Mihm: The atomic bomb set the stage for the college funding fight

1 month ago | thetimes-tribune.com | Stephen Mihm

In recent weeks, the nation’s most selective universities have been waking up to a new reality: the billions of dollars in federal funding that have long sustained them now come with strings attached. The Trump administration has put Columbia, Harvard, and Princeton on notice, threatening to withhold research funds unless they accede to political demands. How did the nation’s elite research universities end up in such an exquisitely vulnerable position?
The atomic bomb set the stage for the college funding fight

1 month ago | thebrunswicknews.com | Stephen Mihm

In recent weeks, the nation's most selective universities have been waking up to a new reality: the billions of dollars in federal funding that have long sustained them now come with strings attached. The Trump administration has put Columbia, Harvard, and Princeton on notice, threatening to withhold research funds unless they accede to political demands. How did the nation's elite research universities end up in such an exquisitely vulnerable position?
Stephen Mihm: The atomic bomb set the stage for the college funding fight

1 month ago | miamiherald.com | Stephen Mihm

In recent weeks, the nation's most selective universities have been waking up to a new reality: the billions of dollars in federal funding that have long sustained them now come with strings attached. The Trump administration has put Columbia, Harvard, and Princeton on notice, threatening to withhold research funds unless they accede to political demands. How did the nation's elite research universities end up in such an exquisitely vulnerable position?
Jonathan D. Salant: Why there won't be a competitive U.S. House race in Western Pa. next year

1 month ago | post-gazette.com | Jonathan D. Salant |Stephen Mihm |Bruce Wilder

WASHINGTON — For the last two years, the 17th Congressional District contest was Western Pennsylvania’s only competitive House race. Not any more. It’s not that there are other U.S. House incumbents in the region who are in danger of losing their seats next year, it’s just that the only one who was, U.S. Rep. Chris Deluzio, D-Aspinwall, is no longer considered vulnerable. The strong favoriteDon’t take my word for it.
The Manhattan Project Set the Stage for Trump's College Funding Fallout

1 month ago | bloomberg.com | Stephen Mihm

Before the war effort, some academic researchers feared that federal money would come with strings attached. Trump has proven them right. In recent weeks, the nation’s most selective universities have been waking up to a new reality: the billions of dollars in federal funding that have long sustained them now come with strings attached. The Trump administration has put Columbia, Harvard, and Princeton on notice, threatening to withhold research funds unless they accede to political demands.