Rohit Lamba is a professor of economics at Cornell University and co-author of the book, “Breaking the Mold: India’s Untraveled Path to Prosperity.” He says Washington's tariffs are basically a sanction, stemming from New Delhi's purchases of Russian oil.

Economics and Business

Foreign Policy

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Wendong Zhang is an associate professor of applied economics and policy and the co-author of Economic Impacts of the 2025 Trade Wars, a policy brief detailing how U.S. tariffs could drive global trade realignments and welfare redistribution.

International

Economics and Business

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John Tobin-de la Puente is a professor of practice at Cornell’s SC Johnson College of Business, and a former Managing Director and Global Head of Sustainability at Credit Suisse. He says long-term investors are unlikely to rely on EPA’s announced reversal to change their investment portfolios. 

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Law, Government & Public Policy

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Patricia Campos-Medina, executive director of the Worker Institute in Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations, says the election of Pope Leo XIV is a moment of celebration for Catholics around the world, but specifically for the faithful in the Americas.

Economics and Business

Labor Relations & Human Resources

Foreign Policy

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Heeyon Kim is an assistant professor of strategy at in Cornell University's Nolan School of Hotel Administration, where she has a focus on creative industries, including film.

Foreign Policy

Economics and Business

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David Sherwyn, professor of hospitality human resources and law, says the tourism industry is exposed to a number of potential consequences related to President Trump’s tariffs and immigration policies.

Economics and Business

School of Hotel Administration

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Tommaso Bondi, a professor of marketing at Cornell Tech and at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, offers insight.

Economics and Business

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Art Wheaton is an expert on transportation industries and serves as director of labor studies at Cornell’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR). He anticipates the immediate impact of the tariffs as, “chaos, price increases and falling sales in the near term.”

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Foreign Policy

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Alex Susskind, professor of food and beverage management at Cornell University’s Nolan School of Hotel Administration says access to European wines is critical to the U.S. restaurant industry and the food and beverage industry, broadly defined. 

Economics and Business

International

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Wendong Zhang is an assistant professor of applied economics and policy at Cornell University. He says the tariffs by the U.S., and the resulting counter-tariffs from China, have resulted in the highest, broad-based tariff hikes since WWII.

Economics and Business

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