Stephen Moore

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

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