Economic Club of Minnesota

The Economic Club of Minnesota (ECOM) provides a high-profile, non-partisan platform for national and international leaders in business, government and public policy to present their ideas on how Minnesota can better compete in the global economy and how America can most effectively provide world leadership on economic and strategic issues.

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Episodes (135)

May 18th Dr. Donald Boudreaux
Apr 13th Professor Mari Pangestu
Apr 7th The Geopolitical Power of Agriculture

Economic Club of Minnesota

May 18, 2026
60 minutes
110 MB

George Mason University economist Don Boudreaux took the stage at the Economic Club of Minnesota on May 11, 2026, as a myth-buster with a simple but powerful challenge: compared to what? In his presentation on Trump's second-term tariffs, Boudreaux cut through the political noise by stacking 2025's economic performance against hard benchmarks, including 2024 and Trump's own first term in 2017. The numbers told a sobering story. Nonfarm employment grew at just 0.5% in 2025 versus 1.6% in 2017, manufacturing employment actually declined, unemployment rose, and all three major stock indices trailed their 2017 post-election performance. Boudreaux also shed light on a broader truth that rarely m...

Economic Club of Minnesota

Dr. Donald Boudreaux

Economic Club of Minnesota

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