Special to WorldTribune.com Commentary by Stephen Moore, October 15, 2025 Later this week the United Nations will hold a vote on a multibillion-dollar climate change tax targeted squarely at American industry. Without quick and decisive action by the White House, this U.N. tax on fossil fuels will become international law. This resolution before the International […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Commentary by Stephen Moore, October 1, 2025 No one likes insurance companies — trying to get them to pay a claim is like wrenching a bone out of a dog’s clenched teeth — and now we have another reason to hold them in low regard. The biggest advocate for blowing another $1 […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Stephen Moore, September 23, 2025 It’s hard to believe that a couple years ago Time magazine considered naming Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell as their Person of the Year. He may well have won, if it hadn’t been for someone named Taylor Swift. Powell has been idolized by the Left […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Stephen Moore, September 17, 2025 Anyone old enough to have lived through the mayhem and economic decline of the 1970s probably will recall the tax cut heard round the world. That was the famous California ballot initiative Proposition 13, which slashed property taxes by more than 25% and then screwed a […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Stephen Moore, August 29, 2025 Let’s start with a very simple truism: You can’t have prosperity without people. Human beings are the most valuable resource, because it is human ingenuity that creates, captures and cultivates all other resources. We as human beings are the custodians and protectors of the planet, not […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Stephen Moore, August 12, 2025 This is the dawning of the age of school choice. The school bells will start ringing in the days and weeks ahead, but a record number of kids — especially children from low-income families — will be opting out of the traditional public schools. This year […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Stephen Moore, July 23, 2025 Over the last several decades, you could count on your fingers (and maybe a few toes) the number of government programs that have been canceled — no matter how obsolete, inefficient or wasteful they were, and despite the fact that, in some rare cases, their missions […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Stephen Moore, July 9, 2025 Everyone knows that the “Big, Beautiful” tax bill signed into law on the Fourth of July lowers tax burdens for families and businesses. It also averts a $4 trillion tax increase starting next year. That’s enough reason to heartily celebrate. But what isn’t well known is […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Stephen Moore, May 27, 2025 Here’s an economics lesson that belongs in the textbooks. Student loan debt soared to more than $1.5 trillion during the Biden presidency, and the response by Washington was to “forgive” hundreds of billions of these unpaid loans by deadbeat borrowers and let the taxpayers pick up […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Stephen Moore, May 13, 2025 As the late senator from Washington state, Warren Magnuson, who served for more than 30 years in Congress, once said, “All that each industry seeks is a fair advantage over its rivals.” Wilt Chamberlain had a fair advantage on the basketball court because he stood 7-foot-1. […]