New Banking Regulations Could Sink the Economy By Stephen Moore
Banking is just about the most regulated industry in America.
Commentary By Stephen Moore
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August 8, 2023
August 1, 2023
Will the Biden Administration Ban Cigars? By Stephen Moore
What is it with the Left that they want to ban nearly everything that is fun or convenient? Gas stoves, dishwashers, plastic straws, gas cars, snowmobiles and diving boards. And now the health busybodies want to ban certain cigars.
July 25, 2023
Much of the Hot Air Is Coming From Washington By Stephen Moore
Baby, it's hot outside.
July 18, 2023
Democrats Are Throwing Kids Off the School Bus By Stephen Moore
Have you heard the outrageous story of what happened recently in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania's capital? Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-Pa.), elected in 2022, had campaigned on school choice for tens of thousands of children, mostly minorities, who are forced to attend failing public schools in places like Philadelphia.
July 11, 2023
Biden Declares War on Profits By Stephen Moore
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre recently reiterated a point the Biden White House has been making for the past year: that inflation remains high not because of the Biden $6 trillion spending spree but because "high profit margins" captured during the COVID-19 pandemic drive up consumer prices.
July 4, 2023
Bidenomics Is a Big Bust By Stephen Moore
Word out of the White House is that President Joe Biden wants to tout his economic successes.
June 20, 2023
Republicans Must Be the Party of Small Business By Stephen Moore
A recent Wall Street Journal lead story reported that "Republicans and big business broke up.
June 13, 2023
To Reduce Airline Ticket Prices, Expand Washington's Reagan Airport By Stephen Moore
Those who live in or near the nation's capital, or routinely travel there, know that the Washington, D.C., region is home to the best airport in the country, Reagan National. It's also home to one of the worst airports, Dulles International.
May 30, 2023
Stop Scaring Our Kids to Death By Stephen Moore
As nearly every standardized test is showing, our schools are doing an abysmal job teaching kids how to read or do math. In some cases, kids graduating from high school can barely read their diplomas.
May 23, 2023
What's the Matter With Texas Republicans When It Comes to School Choice Legislation? By Stephen Moore
This has been the year for school choice all over the country. At least six additional states joined Arizona and Florida to give parents the funds to send their children to private and charter schools.
May 16, 2023
The Green Movement Is a Jobs Killer. Are Unions Finally Figuring This Out? By Stephen Moore
Could it be that union bosses are finally waking up to the cold reality that the greatest threat to steel workers, the United Auto Workers, miners, machinists and the Teamsters is the radical climate change agenda of the environmentalists?
May 9, 2023
Federal Trade Commission's Call of Duty Maneuver Is Actually a Dereliction of It By Stephen Moore
The British antitrust cops just announced they will oppose the proposed blockbuster $68.7 billion merger of two American companies -- Microsoft and gaming company Activision Blizzard, the owner of the wildly popular game Call of Duty. This decision is bad news for investors in companies, gamers and workers. But it's very good news for America's competitors in Asia and Europe.
May 2, 2023
Who Turned the Lights Out? Joe Biden By Stephen Moore
Does the radical climate change agenda know no end? Earlier this year, it was gas stoves -- and then lightbulbs.
April 25, 2023
Real Patriots Cut Taxes, Not Raise Them By Stephen Moore
On Tax Day this year, about a dozen left-wing millionaires joined with some of the most liberal Democrats in Congress for a Washington, D.C., press conference.
April 18, 2023
Regulatory Octopus Is Strangling Our Economy By Stephen Moore
Every schoolkid knows -- or used to know -- that the United States has three branches of government. At least that's what the textbooks say.
April 11, 2023
The Left Has Killed Our Great Cities By Stephen Moore
Mark down Tuesday, April 4, as the night Chicago died.
April 4, 2023
Hey, Uncle Sam: Stop Paying People for Not Working By Stephen Moore
A policy question these days that has befuddled federal lawmakers is why so many millions of people have not returned to the workplace in the post-COVID-19 era.
March 28, 2023
Honey, Joe Biden Just Shrunk Our Pension By Stephen Moore
President Joe Biden recently issued his first veto since taking office on Jan. 20, 2021.
March 21, 2023
Michigan Is Headed Back to Rust Belt Poverty By Stephen Moore
Since the early days of Henry Ford, Michigan was the proud symbol of America's industrial might.
March 14, 2023
Death Taxes Are Immoral. Even Worse, They Don't Work. By Stephen Moore
"I have no respect for the passion of equality," Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., one of America's great jurists, once declared, "which seems to me merely idealizing envy."
