The Drift: Stopping America’s Slide to Socialism Kevin A. Hassett Regnery Publishing, 211 pages, $29 Kevin A. Hassett is a prominent supply-sider, former resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and senior economist for the board of governors of the…
There is a certain irony to a group of rich countries pushing for policies that will disadvantage poorer countries. Yet this is exactly what the leaders of the world’s biggest economies did by endorsing a global minimum tax rate of…
Less than four weeks after proposing his $2.3 trillion American Jobs Plan (AJP), President Biden unveiled another $1.8 trillion in spending for his American Families Plan (AFP) last month. The AFP is being packaged as another part of Biden’s infrastructure…
Well, that didn’t take long. The first major bill passed by the new Democratic congressional majority and signed into law by our new president on March 11 had already provoked a constitutional challenge by March 17. The attorney general of…
The world has lost a great economist. Alberto Alesina suddenly passed away from cardiac arrest while on a walk with his wife on May 23. He was 63. A prolific researcher, his voice will be missed in the coming years,…
It’s a fact that President Donald Trump has a remarkably large number of supporters among the voters and pundits who label themselves as “free market.” They usually say something like, “Sure, I don’t like his trade and immigration policies, but…
A recent poll said the rising debt in the U.S. could sway voters at the ballot box on Tuesday as residents seek candidates who will be responsible with taxpayer money. The Peter G. Peterson Foundation, which advocates for fiscal responsibility…
Donald Trump blasted the Federal Reserve last week, labeling them his “biggest threat” on account of another interest rate hike in September. Since July, Trump has repeatedly jabbed at the Fed, letting Federal Reserve Board of Director Jerome Powell feel…
The Democrats and the media still cling to fantasies of a midterm blue wave despite blunders like the Kavanaugh smear and their opposition to tax cuts. Why? As Ron Brownstein puts it in a recent CNN column, “There’s a suburban…
