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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.

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., accompanied by House Democratic members stand after signs a deal to reopen the government on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Jan. 25, 2019. The measure now goes to the White House for President Donald Trump to sign. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

‘Democrats for border security?’

The government shutdown is over — for now — but the political ramifications are still being sorted out. The media has been chortling that Donald Trump "caved," and he may well have lost this battle with congressional Democrats. Their "victory," such as it is, is to notify American voters that they are so opposed to a wall and a secure border that they were willing to keep the government shut down for four weeks to ensure it doesn't happen.

January 27, 2019
Illustration on a job rich U.S. economy by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

2018, the year of the worker

If 2017 was the year of the investor with stock market gains of more than 25 percent during President Trump's first year in office, 2018 was undoubtedly the year of the American worker.

December 30, 2018
Illustration on incompetence at the Fed The Washington Times

The Federal Reserve’s logic for raising interest rates is flawed

In one of the most remarkable Abbott and Costello routines in modern times, the economic wizards at the Fed again raised interest rates on Tuesday. Their cracker jack logic for doing so is to steer America on a course toward recession so they have the tools in hand to end the recession that they themselves created. Can anyone tell us who's on first?

December 23, 2018
People walks down the stairs inside the venue of the COP24 U.N. Climate Change Conference 2018 in Katowice , Poland, Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2018. The two-week meeting brings together diplomats and interested pressure groups from almost 200 countries to discuss the 2015 Paris Accord and other climate issues. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Follow the (climate change) money

The first iron rule of American politics is: Follow the money. This explains, oh, about 80 percent of what goes on in Washington.

December 16, 2018
No New Taxes Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

The Bush tax betrayal

The eulogies for George H.W. Bush keep rolling in and a great American hero's life has been given proper tribute.

December 9, 2018
Chart to accompany Moore article of Dec. 3, 2018.

Why Donald Trump must declare war on government waste

Republicans need to regain the offensive on the fiscal issues. The GOP has somehow allowed big spending Democrats to get to the right of them on the issue of financial responsibility and balanced budgets.

December 2, 2018
FILE- In this Nov. 19, 2018, file photo a trader follows a chart at the New York Stock Exchange. For the second time this year, stocks have gone into what’s known on Wall Street as a correction, a drop of 10 percent or more from a recent high. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Some thought Trump would wreck the economy, but 4 percent growth proves them wrong

There's an old saying that Wall Street economists have predicted eight of the last two recessions. The bears in the economics profession keep getting paid a lot of money misreading the nation's economic weather vanes — whether it was the power and durability of the Reagan expansion in the 1980s, the ferocious bull market of the late 1990s, the after-effects of the 9/11 attacks, or most recently the phenomenal revival of growth in President Trump's first years in office.

November 25, 2018

BOOK REVIEW: ‘Know Thine Enemy’ by Mark Melcher and Steve Soukup

No one understands the dysfunctions and debilitating impact of America's political system in the swamp better than Mark Melcher and Steve Soukup. For decades between them, they followed Washington for Wall Street at one of America's largest brokerage houses. For the last 16 years, the two have run their own, independent research shop, delivering political commentary and forecasting to the investment community, studying the intersection between politics and economics. This pushed them into a relentless pursuit of the new left -- measuring its deleterious impact on everything it touches -- most especially Western civilization.

November 12, 2018
FILE - In this June 27, 2018, file photo Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., asks a question of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Why Wall Street must get ready for Maxine Waters

Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters of California appears a lock to become the next chairman of the powerful Financial Services Committee. Ms. Waters is pledging to be a diligent watchdog for mom and pop investors, and recently told a crowd that when it comes to the big banks, investment houses and insurance companies, "we are going to do to them, what they did to us." I'm not going to cry too many tears for Wall Street since they poured money behind the Democrats in these midterm elections. You get what you pay for.

November 11, 2018
Election Waves Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

5 midterm races that matter the most in 2018

I've been arguing for months that the ideal outcome in the midterm elections to set up Donald Trump for a landslide re-election in 2020 is for Republicans to hold the Senate and narrowly lose the House.

November 4, 2018
Associated Press

Why the left hates prosperity

Here is Moore's rule of modern day politics: The better the economy performs under President Trump and the more successes he racks up, the more unhinged the left becomes. It's a near linear relationship. And it goes for media as well.

October 28, 2018
Chart to accompany Moore article of Oct. 14, 2018.

Donald Trump’s North American trade triumph

For those on the left and right who were certain that Donald Trump's presidency meant the end of global free trade ... think again. Though President Trump's critics have dismissed the significance of the new Mexico and Canada trade deal, it's hard to deny it's a welcome advance for the economy on the entire continent.

October 14, 2018