Recall of duty? Trump's tariffs in court

履职召回?特朗普关税案上法庭

The Intelligence from The Economist

2025-11-06

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Just as soon as President Donald Trump started applying sweeping tariffs on trading partners, legal challenges to them started piling up. We listen in on the Supreme Court proceedings that might end them. America's gender gap in labour-force participation is growing for the first time; we ask why. And the “dark patterns” that nudge—or trick, or bully—online buyers. Get a world of insights by subscribing to Economist Podcasts+. For more information about how to access Economist Podcasts+, please visit our FAQs page or watch our video explaining how to link your account.
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  • The Economist Hello and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist.

  • I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

  • Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

  • Something funny is going on in America's job statistics.

  • After decades of women catching up with men in terms of labor force participation,

  • the gap is spreading again.

  • We crunched the numbers on why women are pouring out of the job market.

  • And if you've ever hunted for the button that you wanted to click on a retailer's website but all you could see was the button the retailer wanted you to click,

  • you've experienced what are called dark patterns and regulators have begun to take notice.

  • But first, hours after he was inaugurated for his second term,

  • Donald Trump said that the word tariffs was the most beautiful in the dictionary.

  • Going to make us rich as hell, he said, bring our country's businesses back.

  • If there's a grand economic plan of the administration,

  • the central feature of it has been threatening or applying or repealing or increasing tariffs.

  • at Mr.

  • Trump's whim.

  • The question from the start has been whether he's actually endowed with that power.

  • We will hear argument this morning in case 24-12-87 learning resources versus Trump and the consolidated case.

  • And that question has reached the highest court in the land.

  • Soon after Trump issued his tariffs in the spring,