Peter St Onge is a research fellow in economics in the Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation. He holds a doctorate in economics from George Mason University.
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America’s financial mismanagement has gotten so bad that some say our country’s decline is now inevitable, drawing parallels to the Roman Empire’s collapse. That comparison… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Every major economic downturn of the last 110 years bears the mark of the Federal Reserve. In fact, as long as the Fed has been around, it has… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Is America really in a manufacturing renaissance? Far from it. U.S. manufacturing is hemorrhaging, and the numbers the Biden administration uses to claim otherwise are… Read More
EconomyCommentary
The White House released a framework recently on regulation of digital assets that included a call for the Federal Reserve and Treasury Department to continue… Read More
EconomyCommentary
The highly anticipated consumer price index numbers for July came out Wednesday, and while energy fluctuations drove the headline number down, ominous trends show President… Read More
EconomyCommentary
With inflation surging to 9.1% and averaging much higher in the rural heartland than in urban areas, now is not the time for the federal… Read More
EconomyCommentary
The June inflation numbers are a disaster, coming in at a 40-year high of 9.1%. After the Biden administration’s repeated victory laps crowing about “the… Read More
InternationalCommentary
By strangling the Chinese economy and crushing human rights, President Xi Jinping is rapidly turning China into a bad gamble for Western investors and multinational… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Sens. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., and Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., last week introduced the Responsible Financial Innovation Act, which seeks to remove some of the risk that… Read More
InternationalCommentary
The U.S. and key allies announced in March sanctions on a number of Russian banks using SWIFT, the inter-bank payment system relied on by nearly… Read More
