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 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 Stephen Moore If you want one number that encapsulates the enormity of the economic turnaround under President Donald Trump, it is this: In America, as of the end of February, there were 7.1 million unfilled jobs, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. This number is larger than the entire […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Stephen Moore The seething anger Americans feel over the college admission scandal with wealthy and well-connected families using money, influence and cheating to bump their kids up in line so they get accepted into elite schools is well justified. Yet this scheme is small potatoes compared to the real scandal on […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Stephen Moore Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal has been widely ridiculed for its massive disruption to the economy and a price tag of tens of trillions of dollars. Now some Democrats are countering that this isn’t the first Green New Deal in America. They point to President Barack Obama’s fiscal stimulus […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Stephen Moore President Trump gave one of his most memorable and impactful speeches two weeks ago, when he systematically dismantled the case for socialism. In that speech, he recalled the economic harm and destruction in nations that have adopted socialism, communism or Stalinism. “America will never be a socialist country,” Trump […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Stephen Moore “This is the flip side (of) tax the rich, tax the rich, tax the rich. The rich leave, and now what do you do?” said New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo on Feb. 4. After the Trump tax cut went into effect one year ago, we predicted that the […]