Peter Morici

How Biden’s economy will hand Congress back to the Republicans

President Biden scored a political victory with the passage of the American Recovery Act (ARA) -- despite Republican protestations, the $1.9 trillion package enjoys 75% public approval.

March 23, 2021

Joe Biden’s war on the working class

President Biden offers himself as champion of the working class and minorities, but his policies will leave more jobless and enable Donald Trump or another populist from the right in 2024.

March 16, 2021

Tracking Biden’s semiconductor war with China

President Biden has identified semiconductors as ground zero in economic and strategic competition with China and is seeking a Western alliance to secure that industry.

March 11, 2021

Biden missing his moment to boost U.S. growth

President Biden is squandering the opportunity to make the investments necessary to boost longer-term growth.

March 8, 2021

Biden’s foreign policy invites Chinese aggression

President Biden wants the world to know America is back, prepared to lead and committed to shared goals, multilateralism and diplomacy. All this could end worse than America First.

February 24, 2021

Biden forcing hard-left economic agenda risks social chaos

The Democrats appear intent on risking social chaos to accomplish their socialist goals.

February 16, 2021

Biden and Democrats’ unwanted immigration reforms only harvest Hispanic voters

President Biden's recent executive orders and proposed immigration reforms are his down payment on an open border.

February 11, 2021

How Biden can fight America’s three-front war

Americans may not want a civil war, but they are standing in the middle of one.

February 8, 2021

Biden raising the minimum wage will not lessen income inequality

President Biden wants to raise the minimum wage to at least $15 an hour, but this is hardly the best way to lessen income inequality.

January 30, 2021

Inflation could prove Biden’s toughest economic challenge

Inflation may soon rear its ugly head, and President Joseph R. Biden and Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell will find it more difficult to control than their spending plans and recent ruminations indicate.

January 25, 2021

Joe Biden must find America’s lost soul

Joe Biden's biggest problems are not China's quest for empire, an overtaxed infrastructure or the wave of Central Americans marching to our southern border. It's America's lost soul .

January 19, 2021

Now Biden has to match Trump’s economic record

President Biden faces a tough challenge: The COVID-19 recession permanently downsized whole swaths of the economy.

January 18, 2021

Biden’s virtual inauguration is an eerie prophecy for a fading America

There was something eerie about a virtual inauguration even before the chill of violent Capitol Hill protests.

January 13, 2021

A three-part strategy to help Biden restore the American economy

Thin majorities in Congress offer President-elect Joe Biden the opportunity to be bold. He can challenge moderate Republicans to support programs that would boost jobs and incomes.

January 11, 2021

Investing money in a post-pandemic Biden era

We face a tough COVID-19 winter as supply chain bottlenecks slow vaccine rollouts, urban centers remain virtual ghost towns and the disaffected and jobless express outrage with demonstrations and dumpster fires.

January 7, 2021

Fixing Section 230: Twitter, Facebook and social media should be legally part of the public square

Too often Internet platforms violate our privacy, arrogantly regulate speech and abuse monopoly power, but it is important to recognize what are and are not problems.

January 6, 2021

Tracking Biden and his radical left’s crisis of confidence with American capitalism

Like other newly elected executives, President-elect Joe Biden is caught between his campaign promises and what he can reasonably deliver. Often that comes down to money.

January 3, 2021

Without new taxes, Biden’s campaign promises will cost Americans about $10 trillion over 10 years

President-elect Joe Biden has an expansive regulatory and spending agenda and a lot more room to maneuver than conservatives admit.

December 28, 2020

Biden can bring nation together with bold Infrastructure program

President-elect Biden needs a large-scale project that will summon the political class and national imagination to rescue the country from another four years of partisan distrust.

December 27, 2020

Biden’s kumbaya internationalism won’t defend America

The world has radically changed since the Obama-Biden team took the reins 12 years ago.

December 22, 2020