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‘Green New Deal’ likely to fail like FDR’s original big-government plan

By Veronique de Rugy You know you’ve got a problem when your tax schemes are even being rejected by the French. While there’s always a danger in reducing the causes of political unrest to a single issue, the plan to impose yet another regressive $9 billion annual carbon tax…

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Populism needs to combine disgruntled from left and right to succeed

By Fareed Zakaria For Steve Bannon, the way to create an enduring populist majority is to combine forces on the left and right. That’s why he was in Italy earlier this year, where parties representing those two sides joined together in a governing alliance. That’s why Bannon…

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Student debt solution doesn’t include $80 million addition to the football stadium

By Robert Pembroke In America, 11.5 percent of student debt was 90 or more days delinquent or in default last quarter. So, what does the University of Utah and the state Legislature do? They issued $80 million in bonds to add 6,000 seats to the university’s football…

Trump’s confusing trade talk: NAFTA, the new NAFTA or no NAFTA?

By Veronique de Rugy After spending months complaining about the disparity between the United States and other nations’ duties, along with the unfair treatment of U.S. exporters, Pres. Trump is once again threatening to pull the plug on one of the best tariff-equalizing deals…

For all its faults, the old WASP aristocracy had some fine qualities

By Fareed Zakaria The death of George H.W. Bush has occasioned a fair amount of nostalgia for the old American establishment, of which Bush was undoubtedly a prominent member. It has also provoked a heated debate among commentators about that establishment, whose membership was…

Tribalism isn't new; it started with the cavemen, not Al-Qaeda or ISIS

By Robert Pembroke Not too long ago, a good friend and I were discussing the conflicts in the Middle East. “Dee, we have got to do something about all the killing that is going on in the Middle East.” “Bob, you’re not going to be able to stop the killing because it’s been going…

Will the current lame-duck Congress once again overextend itself?

By Veronique de Rugy Last year’s tax reform represented a first step toward improving the tax code by making it simpler, fairer and slightly less distortive. As Congress considers taking up a so-called tax-extenders bill before the new Democratic-controlled House is seated, any…

Wise strategy would be to return to norms America built after World War II

By Fareed Zakaria The G-20 summit in Argentina took place at a moment when the United States still stands at the center of the world. The U.S. economy is booming; the dollar is almighty; American technology companies continue to dominate the new digital economy; and the U.S.…

Eliminating lawyers is a good idea; maybe this guy's app is a good start

By Robert Pembroke “MSNBC Touts DoNotPay App That Eliminates the Need for Attorneys” All right you’ve got me. The above headline is fake news. But thanks to a Stanford undergraduate from London, there is a good chance that the need for an attorney can be eliminated for many…

Why a coach is crucial in the extreme sport of business

By Richard Tyson A few years ago, my business partner and I lead a group of executives down a 14-mile stretch of slot canyons in southern Utah. Our task was to guide them through a team-building experience involving multiple rappels, traversing pools of frigid water and a…

We should give thanks for technological advancements — and air taxis

By Veronique de Rugy At Thanksgiving time, I thought it would be appropriate to remind Americans about some of the tremendous technological advancements we should be thankful for: better cellphones, safer cars, LASIK eye surgery and drones that deliver pizza and life-saving…

Democrats’ war on charter schools marks new moral low, even for them

By Thomas Sowell Fareed Zakaria is on vacation this week. Thomas Sowell is filling in. People who follow politics, even casually, learn not to expect high moral standards from politicians. But there are some outrages that show a new low, even for politicians. Among the…

My wife has accused me of being biased — and she’s absolutely right

By Robert Pembroke After proofing my final column on the Kavanaugh hearings a few weeks ago, my wife looked up and asked, “Will the paper let you publish this? You sound so biased.” Now, that instantly got my attention and I pondered the question throughout the night and here…

Hard to imagine not being there; nevertheless, you need a transition strategy

By Jeremy Miller If you’ve spent years thinking about or building your business, it may be hard to imagine the company without you at the helm. At some point, however, you’ll step aside and someone else will take charge. Whether you pass the business on to a family member, sell…

European effort to impose digital tax on tech giants far from over

By Veronique de Rugy Indications suggest that the Paris-led effort to impose EU-level taxes on cross-border digital services has stalled. Opponents correctly painted the effort as a blatant tax grab against American tech giants like Facebook, Google and Amazon — noting also that…

Smart trade pacts economically sound but have other benefits, too

By Fareed Zakaria It’s easy to get distracted by the circus of the Trump presidency. But what is its larger effect? For an answer to that question, take a look at three recent gatherings on the other side of the planet. Attended by all the major Asian countries, the ASEAN and…

Why do the Democrats not want to pass a tax cut for the middle class?

By Robert Pembroke I have become a lot smarter in my approach to my good liberal friends at Saturday’s breakfast. Some Saturdays I don’t join in the conversation about Trump and McConnell. Other Saturdays I will agree with them about Trump and McConnell if what they are saying…

They keep doing it: Another Republican capitulation on healthcare

By Veronique de Rugy Republicans have established a clear pattern on healthcare. First, they rail against whatever big-government scheme Democrats propose. Then, after a half-hearted and incompetent effort to convince the public of the benefits of a market-oriented system, they…

Is this current wave of nationalism taking the world back to the 1920s?

By Fareed Zakaria When confronting bad news these days, many tend to assume that it’s just a bump on the road and that things will work out. President Obama was fond of invoking Martin Luther King’s assertion that “the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends towards…

They once were the people who would handle money, now they’re being shot

By Robert Pembroke It broke my heart recently watching NPR’s profiling of the victims of the Tree of Life Synagogue shootings in Pittsburgh. I have never seen a group of 11 people with such outstanding backgrounds and kinder faces. Since the shooting I have been trying to read…

Free-market principles missing in ethanol rule change nod to farmers

By Veronique de Rugy The list of losers from President Donald Trump’s trade war is long and likely only to grow. Consumers of washers and dryers, metal-consuming industries and their customers, and American industries caught in the crossfire from retaliatory tariffs have all…

Republicans the party of Trump? How about the party of McCarthy?

By Fareed Zakaria It is commonplace to hear and read about President Trump’s takeover of the Republican Party. And certainly, there is lots of evidence that the GOP is animated these days by an unquestioning devotion to Trump and whatever his ideas may be at any given moment.…

The press has abandoned even the pretense of objectivity

By Robert Pembroke There are two excellent columns in The Wall Street Journal that explain just how low the Democrats will go to protect Roe v. Wade. The first column is “Destroying Brett Kavanaugh” and the second column is “The Case is Even Weaker Than That.” I have often…

How does a business survive and thrive in this world of risks?

By Richard Tyson From the moment we drew our first breath, we were at risk. And every moment thereafter we have lived in an inherently risky world. Risks are ever-present, and managing risks is something that we all must do. When, as a child, your mother admonished you to look…

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