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Maybe it's time we start practicing economic distancing from China

By Marc A. Thiessen Americans are practicing social distancing to stop the spread of the coronavirus that the Chinese regime’s lies and mismanagement unleashed onto the world. It may also be time to start practicing social — and economic — distancing from China as well. China’s…

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Mar 29

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Supply and demand, hoarding, price gouging and the coronavirus

By Veronique de Rugy As the saying goes, “Nothing is certain but death and taxes.” I would add, “and anti-price gouging legislation in times of crisis.” Yet price increases in the face of sudden shortages are an important impetus to restore supply-and-demand market conditions…

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Mar 23

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It’s fair to speculate whether Biden is mentally fit to be president

By Marc A. Thiessen After a disastrous performance in his first debate with Walter Mondale, many in the media began to openly question the then-73-year-old Ronald Reagan’s mental fitness. Writing in the New York Times, James Reston pointed out that Reagan “got his figures mixed…

Paid family leave act will have you paying $10 for a $4 cup of coffee

By Veronique de Rugy Following increased interest in expanding access to paid family and medical leave, Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., joined forces with Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., to promote the Family and Medical Insurance Leave Act (FAMILY). If we believe the act’s…

Open borders and migrants aren't to blame for coronavirus outbreak

By Fareed Zakaria Medical experts are trying to map out the health effects of coronavirus. Economists are estimating its economic fallout. Yet predicting its broader political consequences is likely to be the biggest challenge of all. The historian William McNeill once tried to…

Is 2020 the year to make your dream of owning a small business a reality?

By Marla Trollan Small businesses in Utah are vitally important for our state economy and our national economy as well. Entrepreneurs provide critical goods and services that change lives and create two out of every three new jobs in Utah as they launch new technology and grow…

Paid-leave argument often leaves facts and sound economics optional

By Veronique de Rugy Despite recent stock market jitters related to the coronavirus, the U.S. economy is doing well. Wages are growing, especially for lower-income workers, and unemployment is low. Yet calls are intensifying for the federal government to implement paid leave,…

Sanders’ Scandinavian fantasy: It's not what he's trying to sell America

By Fareed Zakaria Sen. Bernie Sanders says that his proposals “are not radical,” pointing again and again to countries in northern Europe such as Denmark, Sweden and Norway as examples of the kind of economic system he wants to bring to the United States. The image he conjures…

Don't be fooled by Sanders’ claims that economic plan is mainstream

By Veronique de Rugy As Sen. Bernie Sanders looks more and more like the one who may win the Democratic presidential nomination, some tell us that he isn’t the radical leftist others make him out to be. Maybe he’s not even a socialist, despite his own claims. In fact, the…

The trade deficit is soaring under Trump - that’s not necessarily bad

By Fareed Zakaria President Trump’s most consistent case for his own reelection is simple — it’s the economy, stupid. He points to a U.S. economy that is in reasonably good shape, though, of course, nowhere near the “best ever” he claims. Growth has averaged 2.5 percent, a bit…

Trump’s big budget has ‘savings’ that won’t see the light of day

By Veronique de Rugy President Donald Trump’s proposed fiscal year 2021 budget has been released. Generally, budget documents are more of a statement about priorities and aspirations than of anything else. This proposal is typical: It’s full of unrealistic assumptions, as well…

What if Bernie wins? His energy plan based on magical thinking

By Fareed Zakaria The prospect of Bernie Sanders becoming the Democratic nominee has startled many people who worry that his brand of democratic socialism won’t sell and would pave the way for a second Trump term. This might well be true, but it considers Sanders solely through…

America headed in right direction; small-business growth drives economy

By Dan Nordberg I believe President Trump’s State of the Union Address articulated an inspiring vision of American greatness. The president made a powerful case that his pro-growth economic policies are not only sustaining record-high levels of optimism among America’s 30…

Nobody’s meeting the Democrats’ goal of uniting leftist and centrists

By Fareed Zakaria After the debacle of the Iowa caucuses, the old quip attributed to Will Rogers seems just right: “I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.” Actually, that broad Democratic coalition encompassing Southern segregationists,…

Trump’s new derivative tariffs double down on a faulty narrative

By Veronique de Rugy The Tariff Man has done it again. Pres. Donald Trump recently announced that he will expand import taxes on American consumers of auto parts, nails and other goods made in the United States with steel and aluminum. Apparently, untaxed imports of these metals…

There's finally an American president defending human life

By Marc Thiessen History was made on Capitol Hill recently. No, I’m not talking about the presidential impeachment trial; that’s been done before. I’m talking about Pres. Trump’s decision to become the first U.S. president to speak in person at the March for Life. It’s hard to…

Trump’s Labor Department provides clarity on joint employment

By Veronique de Rugy Three years into the Trump administration, we see a clear pattern forming. The Obama administration implemented labor rules that make the labor market less flexible, often at the expense of smaller businesses, but in ways that made unions happy. The Trump…

We're seeing normalization of Trumpism and end of globalization

By Fareed Zakaria Donald Trump’s recent speech at Davos at the World Economic Forum went over relatively well. That’s partly because Davos is a conclave of businessmen, and they like Trump’s pro-business message. But mostly, the president’s reception was a testament to the fact…

OFCCP: Social engineering run amok at Department of Labor

By Veronique de Rugy A few years ago, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce released two reports detailing enforcement and litigation abuses by the Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, or OFCCP. Instead of holding firms accountable when they engage in…

Taiwan really needs U.S. support and Pres. Trump is obliging

By Marc A. Thiessen Donald Trump is arguably the most pro-Taiwan president in U.S. history. On Trump’s watch, U.S. warships sail through the Taiwan Strait — the international waters separating Taiwan from China — on a routine basis, compared with just one to three times a year…

Once again, government-subsidized projects fail to deliver on promises

By Veronique de Rugy In June 2018, Pres. Donald Trump attended the groundbreaking ceremony for a Foxconn factory in Wisconsin. Ever exuberant in his comments, he called the project the “eighth wonder of the world” and “one of the great deals, ever.” Always a bragger, his praise…

Trump's foreign policy seems impulsive, reckless, unplanned, inconsistent

By Fareed Zakaria Three months ago, Donald Trump suddenly withdrew American forces from northern Syria that were, in part, thwarting Iran’s efforts to dominate the country, declaring, “Going into the Middle East is one of the worst decisions ever made in the history of our…

It’s a new year and resolution time for Congress and the administration

By Veronique de Rugy Mark Twain once wrote, “New Year’s is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls, and humbug resolutions, and we wish you to enjoy it with a looseness suited to the greatness…

It's not all bad: Here are Trump's Top 10 achievements for 2019

By Marc A. Thiessen In his third year in office, President Trump continued to deliver an extraordinary list of accomplishments. Today, I offer my annual list of the 10 best things Trump did last year: 10. He continued to deliver for the forgotten Americans. Unemployment is at…

MAMarc A. Thiessen

Jan 12

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