The housing affordability crisis in America has gotten considerably worse over the last five years. How have recent tariffs on Canadian lumber impacted home construction costs, and which groups are hurt the most by increases in home prices? On ...

How have the tariffs enacted throughout 2025 impacted prices and the affordability crisis in America? Which groups are disproportionately impacted by price increases? In this episode of borderline economics, we spoke to a leading researcher of ...

Car affordability has dropped significantly in the last five years, and at the same time, car loan delinquency and repossession rates have reached levels last seen in the 2008 financial crisis. But with affordability so low, what do the tariffs...

One of the key goals of tariff policy was to bring jobs and infrastructure back to America. But what does history tell us about how tariffs impact employment, and who gets hurt the most when unemployment drops? In this episode of Borderline Eco...

Tariffs have undoubtedly rocked the global economy throughout the last year. But what does it look like inside of businesses when tariffs get put up, and how have they been reacting to new protectionism in America? What do these decisions mean ...

How will tariffs impact manufacturing employment and US GDP in the coming years? Which groups in America disproportionately bear the cost of those tariffs, and how will they impact the bottom line? On this episode of Borderline Economics, we sp...

The Trump Administration recently announced plans for a 13 billion dollar farmer's aid package following elevated farm bankruptcies and heavy losses sustained by US farmers. We spoke to award-winning professor of agricultural economics Chad Har...