Stephen Moore

Is Biden taking U.S. economy back to the age of Jimmy Carter?

Everything happening in our fractured nation today seems so worrisomely reminiscent of America's last lost decade -- the 1970s.

May 8, 2024

Four radical reforms to shrink our federal budget

It was exactly 50 years ago that the liberal post-Watergate Congress, dominated by Democratic big spenders, passed a new set of budget rules called the Budget Reform and Impoundment Control Act.

May 2, 2024

Biden on the economy: ‘I don’t feel your pain’

In 1992, Democratic presidential nominee Bill Clinton famously told American voters who were hurting because of a lousy economy, "I feel your pain."

April 15, 2024

Biden’s green energy: Biggest corporate welfare scam of all time

President Biden keeps lecturing corporate America to "pay your fair share" of taxes. It turns out that he's right: Some companies really are getting away with not paying taxes.

April 10, 2024

Biden’s infeasible energy mandates just getting started

The Biden administration has announced in recent weeks stringent new emissions requirements for virtually the entire U.S. transportation system.

April 2, 2024

Biden admin takes a swipe at credit card competition

The Biden administration regulators see a monopoly boogeyman behind the curtain of nearly every business merger and acquisition -- from airlines to cellphones to chicken producers.

March 26, 2024

Biden’s tax plan puts America last

I am often asked whether President Biden is intentionally trying to dismantle the American economy with his imbecile energy, climate change, crime, border, inflation and debt policies.

March 20, 2024

How to solve Bidenflation’s housing affordability problem

In his State of the Union speech, President Biden proposed yet another government subsidy program to promote homeownership.

March 13, 2024

Biden’s legal immigration calamity

Almost all Americans know that Joe Biden's open border immigration policy has wreaked havoc on the country and especially our large cities where millions of migrants are now residing.

March 6, 2024

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