Stephen Moore, who formerly wrote on the economy and public policy for The Wall Street Journal, is a distinguished visiting fellow for the Project for Economic Growth at The Heritage Foundation. He was a senior economic adviser to Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign. Read his research.
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My 13-year-old son told me at the dinner table the other day that Franklin Roosevelt was one of America’s “greatest presidents” because “he ended the Great… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Remember the much maligned Tea Party movement? These were the patriotic Americans—millions of them—who took to the streets and the town halls across America and… Read More
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The so-called “progressives” love to talk about how their policies will create a worker’s paradise, but then why is it that day after day, month… Read More
InternationalCommentary
The Greek citizens have rolled the dice and voted overwhelmingly to reject the “austerity” referendum. This was a way for voters to stick a finger… Read More
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Recent polling shows a big majority of Americans think it will be more difficult for this generation of millennials to achieve the American dream of… Read More
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President Obama recently acknowledged what every sane person knows to be true: The best anti-poverty program is a job. Obama said this at a recent… Read More
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Here’s a half-serious question: How much do taxpayers have to pay off Boeing to make the Export-Import Bank finally and irrevocably go away? If the… Read More
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Earlier this month the Illinois Supreme Court overturned a state law that would help fix the state’s notorious pension crisis. What a tragedy for the state’s… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Our class warrior in chief was at it again last week complaining about our “ideological divides that have prevented us from making progress” in solving… Read More
EducationCommentary
The scenes of Baltimore set ablaze have many Americans thinking: What can be done to rescue families trapped in an inner-city culture of violence, despair… Read More
EnergyCommentary
The green energy movement in America is dead. May it rest in peace. No, a majority of American energy over the next 20 years is… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Here’s some advice to the White House: it might be time for President Obama to cancel the rest of his economic “mission accomplished” tour and… Read More
EnergyCommentary
Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Elizabeth Warren and the whole gang of Democratic leaders claim that one of their highest priorities is to lift up the middle… Read More
EnergyCommentary
Five years ago this week a blowout of BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig 40 miles from the Gulf Coast tragically claimed 11 lives and spilled… Read More
EnergyCommentary
Today is Earth Day and to hear the experts like Usher and Al Gore tell the story, the planet is in a miserable state. We’re… Read More
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Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren recently appeared on one of the late night talk shows, beating the class warfare drum and arguing for billions of dollars in… Read More
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The House voted to repeal the death tax on Thursday. There are lots of persuasive reasons to kill this odious tax. The money in a… Read More
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Poor Barbra Streisand. Just last month the renowned economist (who also describes herself as a “singer,” “actress,” and “activist”) penned an opinion piece titled “Have You… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Nearly everyone is thinking about cancer these days thanks to the Ken Burns film on PBS, “Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies.” All of us,… Read More
EconomyCommentary
The great conundrum of the U.S. economy today is that we have record numbers of working age people out of the labor force at the… Read More
EnergyCommentary
National Geographic’s latest cover story generated lots of attention for comparing climate change skeptics to those who fear vaccinations, disbelieve NASA’s moon landing, and oppose water fluoridation…. Read More
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Here’s a question that has been puzzling Patrick Doyle, the CEO of Domino’s, for months, as he puts it: “How do we list the calorie content of… Read More
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Sometimes in Washington it seems as George Wallace used to grouse: “There ain’t a dime’s worth of difference between the two parties.” Well when it… Read More
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Editor’s note: Since this article was originally published, Gov. Scott Walker signed the right-to-work law in Wisconsin. My first job as a teenager back in… Read More
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(This article was originally published last week, before the Wisconsin state assembly passed right-to-work legislation.) Wisconsin is poised this week to become the 25th “right-to-work state,”… Read More
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If there were ever a right time to eliminate the estate tax in America, it is right now. The latest tax collection data make an… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Among so many of President Obama’s flaws, near the top of the list is that he has never understood the art of the deal. Every… Read More
EducationCommentary
Barack Obama is a Washington, D.C., resident–and one with a high income. As he likes to openly admit, he’s one of the privileged one percent… Read More
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The age old question in economics is this: how does a nation or state create economic growth and rising living standards for its citizens? Once… Read More
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President Obama’s proposed changes to inheritance and capital gains taxes could raise the estate tax rate in the U.S. to the highest in the industrialized… Read More
