Scott Lincicome

"For small businesses hit by soaring costs, layoffs are painful and personal" www.nbcnews.com/business/con...

"US tariffs prompt surge in Chinese exports to south-east Asia" www.ft.com/content/16d0...

"But the xLight deal is also shining a spotlight on a trend that’s making people in Silicon Valley quietly uncomfortable: the Trump administration taking equity stakes in strategically important companies." finance.yahoo.com/news/pat-gel...

Any doubts about why large corporations need huge trade staffs and small firms either give up or pay consultants? Trade facilitation is urgently needed, but will be ignored by politicals because it isn’t sexy. Not to mention that most of the business press don’t deem such details newsworthy.

bingo

"Post-bankruptcy, Wolfspeed receives nearly $700M tax refund from CHIPS Act" www.manufacturingdive.com/news/wolfspe...

New from me at the @CatoInstitute blog: "For US Businesses, Tariff Complexity Is 'Death by a Thousand Papercuts'" www.cato.org/blog/us-busi...

"How the House Has Taken Itself Out of the Tariff Fight" thedispatch.com/article/cong...

"The latest trade data suggests foreign exporters did not lower their prices in response to the current administration’s sweeping global tariffs." 😲 www.ntd.com/trade-price-...

"Overall import prices were flat in September. But take out fuel, and prices rose

Overall, import prices remained unchanged. But that's before you add in tariffs." www.marketplace.org/story/2025/1...

"President Donald Trump's tariffs, aimed at reshoring American jobs lost to overseas manufacturing, could end up lowering domestic head count instead" 😲 www.cnbc.com/2025/12/02/t...

Thanks.

THANK YOU.

Your focus is on businesses importing to the USA. The aspect of tariffs I haven't seen a lot discussed is how tariffs (especially with de minimis gone) are affecting regular people who buy directly from foreign vendors, millions of transactions PER DAY.

A nightmare.

The enormously complex trump tariff regime represents an enormous level of hypocrisy. The admin promised deregulation but created a tariff regime that costs businesses massive amounts of time and money to comply with. Below is a graphic from Scott Lincicome of Cato showing its complexity

Welcome to Tariff Complexity Hell Complexity is a tax, and today U.S. companies are paying through the nose.

I’ve been reporting about the potential connection of tariffs to small biz job losses. Scott Lincicome of Cato offers this piece discussing not just the high level of the tariffs, but the “truly insane complexity” whose “overall economic cost is likely staggering. “

thedispatch.com/newsletter/c...

It's not hell. It's way worse than hell.

We have, like a million times. The difference, of course, is one guy did this by himself in just a few years.

Welcome to Tariff Complexity Hell Complexity is a tax, and today U.S. companies are paying through the nose.

My new Capitolism @thedispatchmedia.bsky.social digs into an under-discussed way that Trump's tariffs are kneecapping American businesses: their INSANE complexity.

You think you know how bad it is? You have no idea.

"Welcome to Tariff Complexity Hell"

🎁: thedispatch.com/newsletter/c...

"Ahead of Tariff Ruling, Businesses Race to Secure Refunds" www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/b...
"If the refund process is difficult, it could pose the greatest challenge for small businesses...who have fewer resources to hire lawyers, file paperwork and, potentially, fight for their money in court"

"Apartment rents drop further, with vacancies at record high" www.cnbc.com/2025/12/02/a...

Deja vu all over again: "Chinese Rare-Earth Dealers Find Ways to Dodge Beijing’s Export Restrictions" www.wsj.com/world/china/...

From the last trading day before Bob Swan was fired (12-Jan-21) to before Pat Gelsinger was fired (29-Nov-24), INTC was -55% vs SOXX and SP50 both +59%

MSN Amid the economic uncertainty of the trade war between the United States and Canada are some silver linings. Companies are choosing to leave the U.S. for a new home north of the border, thanks to changes...

"Companies are choosing to leave the U.S. for a new home north of the border, thanks to changes in trading policies, immigration practices and even energy regulations under the Trump administration." share.google/29W1zfUa4toh...

More US government ownership of private business from the GOP anti-socialists: "US to Take $150 Million Stake in Chip Startup Led by Gelsinger" www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

"Barriers to Affordable Housing" www.econlib.org/econlog/barr...

""With customers delaying purchases until tariff policies stabilize, ISM leaders say there’s little near-term relief in sight, even as inventory drawdowns and quicker supplier deliveries hint at some underlying recalibration." www.businessreport.com/article/what...

"World Economy Surprisingly Resilient to Tariffs, OECD Says" www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
"It estimates that without booming AI investments the US economy contracted by 0.1% in the first half as household consumption growth moderated and government purchases fell."

"Newell Brands to Cut 10% of Employees in Cost-Savings Push" www.wsj.com/business/ret...
"The company cut its full-year outlook in October as consumers resisted its higher prices and tariffs weighed more heavily than expected on profit."

"A Surprise When Your Package Arrives: You Have to Pay the Tariff" www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/b...

"There is a sense from some in Switzerland that this was very close to corruption," 😲 www.ft.com/content/36c9...