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Stephen Moore

Stephen Moore is an economic consultant with Freedom Works. He received a bachelor of arts degree from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and holds a master of arts degree in economics from George Mason University.

Columns by Stephen Moore

Biden forgives student loans and, behold, defaults skyrocket

Here's an economics lesson that belongs in the textbooks.

May 20, 2025

Cut taxes on made-in-America products

The late Sen. Warren Magnuson of Washington state, who served more than 30 years in Congress, was the inventor of the phrase "a fair advantage."

May 12, 2025

EB-5 investor program and Gold Card: America’s economic secret weapons

California's largest master-planned community, McClellan Park, is situated on the outskirts of Sacramento.

May 5, 2025

Trump’s FTC is putting American companies last

President Trump has reached his first 100 days in office, and the White House is rightly touting potentially hundreds of billions of dollars in deregulation initiatives in energy, education and housing.

April 30, 2025

Sorry Fannie Mae: We won’t be fooled again

Does anyone remember back in 2008 when the housing market collapsed and the stock market crashed, with many tens of millions of Americans seeing their lifetime savings nearly wiped out?

April 21, 2025

Washington’s latest tax assault on private equity and venture capital industries

What is it about politicians in Washington that they can't stand progress or the thought of anyone getting rich?

April 15, 2025

Big tax cuts should offset any tariff increases

President Trump has predicted that his tariffs could raise as much as $6 trillion in federal tax collections over the next decade.

April 10, 2025

Why Democrats hate DOGE

If you haven't watched the Bret Baier interviews on Fox News with Elon Musk and the other executives who have given their time and expertise to exposing rampant fraud, I urge you to do so.

April 6, 2025

Trump should end the Biden era war on small business partnerships

President Trump has promised to create millions of new high-paying jobs. One easy first step is to repeal Biden regulations on America's 4 million business partnerships, which are prolific job creators.

March 26, 2025

The FDA can save lives by keeping copycat drugs off the market

The United States has led the world in pharmaceutical innovation for decades by developing drugs that combat cancer, heart disease, AIDS, diabetes and other killer diseases.

March 18, 2025

Want to soak the rich? Tax university endowments

Republicans are searching for ways to "pay for" their tax cuts. Democrats want the rich to pay more taxes. Here is a solution that should make everyone happy.

March 11, 2025

Trump is right: Fire bad federal employees and reward good ones

All of Washington is acting like their hair is on fire in response to the DOGE requirement that federal employees list what they accomplished last week.

March 2, 2025

Get ready for America’s ‘Little Tech’ revolution

It's a tribute to American tech dominance that the companies -- Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia and Tesla -- have a combined net worth greater than that of all the companies in Europe.

February 18, 2025

Flush with freedom: Trump’s appliance order wipes away decades of regulations

This is a day I've been waiting at least 20 years for. With a stroke of the pen, President Trump has declared that you are now once again the king or queen of your castle.

February 17, 2025

A smart way to pay for the Trump tax cut: Auction government assets

The federal government owns multiple trillions of dollars of federal assets, from land to buildings to patent rights to mineral rights to immigrant visas to oil fields and unused office furniture equipment.

January 29, 2025

Trump’s ‘folly’ of trying to buy Greenland could turn to gold

The media and the intelligentsia are laughing at President Trump's idea of the United States acquiring Greenland from Denmark. At first hearing of what seemed to be an outlandish idea, I guffawed, too.

January 26, 2025