Stephen Moore

Americans want prosperity far more than they want a balanced budget

House Republicans are in another titanic battle with President Biden on how to balance the budget.

September 25, 2023

Census favored blue states after all

Last year, on these pages, the two of us raised the red flag on erroneous counts of state populations in the 2020 decennial Census.

May 30, 2022

Health savings accounts present a working free market alternative to Obamacare

The Senate fight over President Trump's pick for the U.S. Supreme Court, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, became a morality play about Obamacare.

October 31, 2020

Deregulating America’s energy industry will stimulate COVID-19 strained economy

The last time the American economy needed a steroid injection, one industry did most of the heavy lifting to get us out of recession: the oil and gas producers of America.

August 5, 2020

Democrats peddle doom, but the middle class never had it so good

These days when you listen to the gloom of the media and many of the presidential candidates you have to wonder what country these Debbie Downers are talking about.

December 29, 2019

The Fed monopoly shouldn’t compete with private banks

If there is any lesson we have learned about the Federal Reserve system in the last few years, it is that the supposed oracles who run our central bank are anything but infallible.

December 21, 2019

A cheer for the Trump uranium plan

Our sources are telling us that President Trump is nearing a decision on how to revive the all-but-dormant American uranium industry. This proposed plan would create a reserve of domestically-mined uranium and stored in a "Federal Uranium Security Stockpile."

December 15, 2019

Congress must stop subsidizing wealthy car buyers

Why are Democrats Sen. Chuck Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi teaming together to lobby for a tax bill that would provide about 80 percent of the benefits to Americans who make more than $100,000 a year?

December 7, 2019

Congress bans short-term lending, the poor pay a high price

Washington do-goodism almost always fails to help the people it is supposed to because politicians ignore the Law of Unintended Consequences. Nowhere is that more evident than when it comes to a congressional plan to put payday lenders and other short-term lending institutions, such as the burgeoning online lenders, out of business.

November 30, 2019

How America can still win the race to 5G wireless technology

The Federal Communications Commission has thrown a curve ball into the global race for deployment of 5G -- the much-anticipated fifth generation of cellular and wireless technology.

November 23, 2019

Trump needs tax cut 2.0

Every single plausible Democratic candidate for president has endorsed tax increases as centerpieces of their economic agenda. Think about what we are hearing from Elizabeth Warren, Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, and the rest of the Punch and Judy Show.

November 15, 2019

Post and liberal media again get it wrong about Trump economy

If The Post and others in the liberal media really cared about middle-class families, they would be cheering the gains for scores of millions of households

November 9, 2019

Nancy Pelosi’s stall tactics hurt America’s economy

Wouldn't it be wonderful if for one brief shining moment in Washington, Congress put good policy over politics -- and passed a bill that would benefit American workers, investors and businesses?

November 3, 2019

Trump economy surges and Biden and Obama hog the credit

The same former vice president who says that his son, Hunter, was hired by the Ukrainian oil and gas company because of his expertise in energy policy is now claiming that President Trump has "squandered" the strong Obama economy he inherited.

October 26, 2019

Washington subsidies not helping the wind industry

Last week the lobbying arm of the wind energy industry made an unsurprising, though somewhat embarrassing, announcement. It wants a longer lifeline with federal subsidies. So much for wind being the low-cost energy source of the future.

October 18, 2019

It’s a middle class boom

How much of the monetary gains from the Trump economic speed-up have gone to the middle class? If you ask Democratic senators and presidential candidates Elizabeth Warren or Kamala Harris or Bernie Sanders, the answer to that question is ... almost none.

October 13, 2019

What the presidential candidates are missing: economic growth

The new economic message of progressivism is grounded more in envy and give-aways than prosperity and opportunity.

October 4, 2019

How gloomy stories of the coming apocalypse have become commonplace

A friend of mine's third-grade daughter came home from school a few weeks ago with tears streaming down her cheeks. "My teacher say we only have 10 years before the oceans rise, and we are under water," she moaned. "Are we all going to die?"

September 29, 2019

Rebuilding America’s domestic uranium industry

The decline of American mining and production of critical minerals in recent decades is a self-inflicted wound that could imperil our economy and national security.

September 21, 2019

Elizabeth Warren’s Social Security scam

Elizabeth Warren has a soak-the-rich plan for every problem in America. To make the math of any of these fiscal concoctions work, she's going to have find a lot more rich people to tax.

September 13, 2019