Stephen Moore

Michigan takes a U-turn back to the Rust Belt as forced union state

No state in modern times has transitioned from a worker-freedom state to one that forces workers to join a union and pay dues to labor bosses.

February 27, 2024

What bull market? Two-thirds of stock market rise under Biden is due to inflation

President Biden is boasting about the recent stock market rally. He's right that stocks have been on a tear for the last 14 months. The S&P 500 hit 5,000 for the first time in history. That's up from 500 some 30 years ago.

February 21, 2024

Biden, Schumer and Romney’s foreign aid budget buster adds $1,200 per household to our crushing debt

President Biden, Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, and a handful of left-leaning Republicans (led by Mitt Romney, of course) have just agreed to a nearly $100 billion foreign aid bill for Israel and Ukraine.

February 14, 2024

War on the web: Biden has deputized the FCC to police the internet

President Biden's FCC has been given the authority to second-guess every aspect of an internet service provider's operations, from network maintenance and installation to everyday business operations.

February 6, 2024

Gambling industry wants to make fantasy sports leagues illegal

Here's a sad and textbook case of how companies all too often use the strong arm of government to destroy their competition.

January 30, 2024

Two Americas: Elites hopelessly out of touch with working-class people

For the past 30 years or so, the left has invented a narrative that there are two Americas.

January 24, 2024

New bank regulations will hurt small businesses, lower-income borrowers the most

The rapid succession of bank failures last spring clearly spooked regulators at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., the Federal Reserve Board and bank depositors.

January 16, 2024

Blue states just can’t stop taxing

The latest Census Bureau data on population changes in the United States should have been a wake-up call to lawmakers in blue states and cities.

January 9, 2024

The most overrated and underrated U.S. presidents: Barack Obama, Calvin Coolidge

For conservatives, it's maddening to see periodic polls of historians ranking American presidents from the greatest to the worst.

January 2, 2024

Why does Washington want to destroy America’s ‘Magnificent 7’?

Nothing exemplifies the dominance of America's tech industry in the global economy more than the meteoric rise of what are now being called the "Magnificent Seven" stocks.

December 12, 2023

Green climate agenda pushes policies that destroy the planet rather than save it

The late humorist P.J. O'Rourke used to quip that "everyone wants to save the world, but no one wants to wash the dishes."

December 4, 2023

Democrats reject President John F. Kennedy’s legacy

There's a political cartoon going around that shows John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy sitting on a couch watching a speech by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

November 27, 2023

Will New York politicians tax Wall Street out of existence?

Let's face it. Anyone who works in or just visits the Wall Street area of Manhattan can't deny the aura of power and money isn't what it was 20, 30 or 50 years ago.

November 20, 2023

‘National conservatives’ dead wrong about middle-class Americans’ financial well-being

In the last several months, I have had occasion to debate some of the intellectual leaders of a group called the "national conservatives."

November 13, 2023

FDA banning menthol cigarettes will backfire

One of the most enduring lessons of American history is that the banning of liquor sales and consumption ("the noble experiment") was a colossal failure.

November 6, 2023

The great green energy transition that wasn’t

In 2023, the world is guzzling oil and gas like never before. Global consumption of fossil fuels was higher in 2022 than at any time in human history.

October 30, 2023

America’s top national security threat is our runaway debt

President Biden is asking to whip out the federal credit card yet again for $100 billion more in military assistance for Ukraine and Israel and "humanitarian" aid.

October 23, 2023

Our public schools are a national disaster, and more money will not solve the problem

Perhaps what's most distressing about the latest collapse in high school test scores is that no one seems distressed about it.

October 16, 2023

Pope Francis gives new voice to those denouncing Americans’ ‘irresponsible lifestyles’

When I was growing up and attending Catholic schools, I was taught that the pope is infallible.

October 10, 2023

Washington’s credit card price controls would hurt consumers

Why has Sen. Dick Durbin, Illinois Democrat, declared war on credit cards?

October 2, 2023