Special to WorldTribune.com By Stephen Moore While running for president in 1960, John F. Kennedy campaigned against the moderate growth economy (2.5% annual GDP rise) in the last years of the Eisenhower administration. He appealed to Americans’ highest aspirations by saying in his typical Boston drawl: “We can do bettah.” JFK promised 4% and 5% […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Stephen Moore A friend of mine’s third grade daughter came home from school a few weeks ago with tears streaming down her cheeks. “My teacher says we only have 10 years before the oceans rise and we are underwater,” she moaned. “Are we all going to die?” That’s a heavy burden […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Stephen Moore Last week, I gave a talk to high-wealth investors in San Francisco — not exactly an audience of left-wing activists — and people kept asking me the question of the day: “Will there be a recession?” My reply: I’d never say never, but I don’t see a recession in […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Star Parker; With the first round of Democratic Party debates behind us, Americans have now heard from their candidates why they think they should run the country. One theme permeates the messages of all these Democrats. America is not fair, and they aspire to be president to make things fair. Elizabeth […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Larry Elder About reparations, a skeptical President Barack Obama in 2016 told reparations proponent Ta-Nehisi Coates that it would divide the country. Obama said: “It is hard to think of any society in human history in which a majority population has said that as a consequence of historic wrongs, we are […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Stephen Moore Several years ago, I had a shoulder injury, and the doctor told me I might need surgery to fix the small tear in my rotator cuff. So, I asked, “Doctor, if I have this surgery, about how much will it cost?” He looked at me confusedly and said, “Steve, […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Stephen Moore I’ve been shouting from the rooftops for six months that the Federal Reserve is too tight on money and that this lack of dollar liquidity has cut into growth. So it is somewhat vindicating that Fed Chairman Jerome Powell seems to be finally coming around to that idea. The […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Stephen Moore Almost all of the economic discussion of late has been on the “wage gap” between men and women. A case in point: California Sen. Kamala Harris wants to create a federal bureaucracy that will ensure the government has more influence over workers’ pay than workers and employers themselves. This […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Michelle Malkin We no longer live in a constitutional republic. We live in an idiocracy. Only in modern-day America, under the Democratic-controlled U.S. House of Representatives, is the basic proposition that federally subsidized public housing should benefit American citizens and legal residents slammed as “despicable” and “damaging.” Those are the hysterical […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Stephen Moore I’m disappointed I had to withdraw from the nomination to be a member of the Federal Reserve Board because I do believe the Fed needs to change the way it operates. In the last month, I started investigating how it makes its decisions, which have such a dramatic impact […]