Stephen Moore
Columns by Stephen Moore
‘Bidenomics 2.0’: Be afraid, be very afraid
Could a second Biden term be more injurious to our economy than his first? Published May 15, 2024
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. Published 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. Published 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." Published 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. Published 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. Published 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. Published 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. Published 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. Published 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. Published 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. Published 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. Published 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. Published 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. Published 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. Published 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. Published 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. Published 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. Published 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. Published 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. Published December 12, 2023
