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A leading economist is warning of the dire economic consequences of a U.S. national debt that is currently increasing by $1 trillion every 100 days. On Monday, Stephen Moore, a distinguished fellow in Economics at The Heritage Foundation, joined “Washington Watch with Tony Perkins” to discuss the current economic outlook for America as the national debt continues to balloon at an unprecedented rate.

VIDEOWealthy Disney heiress Abigail Disney has for years called for the wealthy to pay more in taxes. So at a recent "Tax The Rich!" rally in Washington, D.C. where Disney and fellow leftwing millionaires were calling for increased taxes on the rich, Stephen Moore showed up with pledges for them to sign in which they would volunteer to pay 90% of their income in taxes. Guess how many of them signed the pledge? Bonus embarrassing excuses from the virtue signaling Abigail Disney for your entertainment.

Have you taken a peek at the balance in your 401(k) retirement accounts lately? Here’s our advice: Don’t bother. It will ruin your whole day, week and month. We’ve now had seven straight months of 8%+ inflation. A year ago we were assured by the White House that these rapid price increases in everything from groceries, to rental cars, to gasoline at the pump, to health insurance were merely “transitory.” Whoops. The most immediate sticker shock from Bidenflation has been to shrink real take-home paychecks of workers. This rise in consumer prices over wages means that the average family in...

Nationally syndicated conservative radio talk show host Mark Levin and economist Stephen Moore ripped the disastrous effects that the leftist agenda of President Joe Biden and his allies are inflicting on the U.S. economy. Levin said during the Aug. 15 edition of Life, Liberty and Levin on Fox News that Biden’s spending-obsessed plans are “far worse than anything Richard Nixon ever did. This is far worse than anything [Lyndon Baines Johnson] ever did. The numbers are just beyond belief even when considering, ironically, inflation.” Moore likened every leftist wish list item in the phony $3.5 trillion infrastructure bill that Democrats...

A group of “free-market and low-tax advocates” are urging House Republicans to back off plans to take antitrust action against Big Tech companies. The Washington Times reported the “conservative activists” authored a 10-page letter to Republican U.S. Reps. Ken Buck (CO), Matt Gaetz (FL), and Andy Biggs (AZ) and it said in part: We fear that today, both sides of the aisle are pushing for the weaponization of antitrust, either as a tool to punish corporate actors with whom they disagree or out of a presupposition that big is bad.

Economist Stephen Moore joined Fox Business to warn Americans about what Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden would do to the oil and gas industry through his regulatory agenda. During the November 4 edition of Fox Business’s Making Money, host Charles Payne referred to President Donald Trump’s regulatory relief agenda as the “unsung hero of this economic recovery.” Moore estimated that average American households saved about $3,000 under the Trump deregulation effort. “You’re talking about tens, if not hundreds of billions of dollars of savings,” Moore said. Contrasting this to a potential Biden administration, Moore warned: “People just ask me: ‘Is...

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell admitted last week at the “virtual” Jackson Hole symposium that the Fed has undershot its 2% annual inflation target consistently for the last several years. The Fed is tacitly admitting that its deflationary monetary policy has restrained growth and held down wages. Now the Fed is promising to aim higher in order to get more dollar liquidity into the economy.

Economist Stephen Moore blasted Democrat leaders as hypocrites for being against a payroll tax cut idea by President Donald Trump, something they supported under former President Barack Obama. Moore hammered Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA): “Maybe we should start calling them hypocrats. During Barack Obama's first term in office, when the economy was ailing as it is today, they were all for a payroll tax cut.”

Economist and member of the Save Our Country Task Force Stephen Moore came out swinging against neglecting the economy further amidst the ongoing pandemic.

Over the holidays, I read Elton John's biography, "Me." He writes about his friendship with Freddie Mercury, the ultra-talented lead singer of the rock group Queen. Mercury tragically died of AIDS at the age of 45 in 1991. Mercury was one of the last people to die of the disease in Britain during the epidemic years. John writes sadly and almost offhandedly that if Mercury had lived one year longer, he probably would have survived because of the AIDS medication that eventually saved millions of lives. Then, a few days ago, we all read on the front pages of newspapers...

Joe Biden is at it again — living in his own parallel universe. The same former vice president who says that his son, Hunter, was hired by the Ukrainian oil and gas company because of his expertise in energy policy is now claiming that President Trump has “squandered” the strong Obama economy he inherited. Here is how Mr. Biden put it in a speech last week in Scranton, Pennsylvania: “Donald Trump inherited a strong economy from Barack and me.” Then he added: “Things were beginning to really move. And just like everything else he’s inherited, he’s in the midst of...

Not that long ago there was a broad political consensus that a fair and economically efficient tax system has a broad tax base and low tax rates. The grand bargain was no special interest loopholes and low tax rates to boost the economy and jobs. As recently as the 1980s, Democrats and Republicans alike joined together to pass a tax reform that lowered income tax rates to 28 percent, while eliminating deductions and carve outs. Nearly every Senate Democrat, including Ted Kennedy, Al Gore, Joe Biden, Bill Bradley, and Howard Metzenbaum, voted for this new tax system. It worked. SNIP...

President Donald Trump is an “exaggerator” who knew his policies wouldn’t generate the 5% growth he had promised while campaigning, according to Stephen Moore, who served as a campaign advisor to Trump and was a prospective Fed nominee. In an interview with Mehdi Hasan, columnist at The Intercept, Moore stopped just short of calling the president a liar, but did say Trump hurts himself with falsehoods. “He should stop saying things that are untrue,” Moore says in a clip from Al Jazeera English television show that Hasan provided on his Twitter feed. “I think Trump is an exaggerator, and I...

Robert Mueller was "the master when it came to covering up" 9/11 ... systemic efforts by the Saudi government to assist .. the 9/11 attacks .. Mueller .. covered up evidence pointing back to the Saudi Embassy and Riyadh — and may have even misled Congress about what he knew. ... In October of 2001, Mueller shut down the government’s investigation after only three weeks, and then took part in the Bush [administration’s] campaign to block, obfuscate and generally stop anything about Saudi Arabia from being released.. ... FBI Agent Stephen Moore headed a 9/11 task force .. concluded that...

Of all America's immigrant visa programs, arguably the most successful for the U.S. economy has been the H1B program. This program admits highly skilled foreigners who fill vital employment niches to make our made-in-America businesses more successful in international markets. Larry Kudlow, the director of President Donald Trump's National Economic Council, calls these immigrants the "brainiacs." In many ways, he is right. America's high-tech companies use tens of thousands of these visas each year. The workers come for usually about six years; those who are successful here apply for permanent residence when the visa expires. The firms that use these...

I recently took some flak from Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown for saying in a speech at the Heartland Institute several years ago that the "only place to live in the midwest is Chicago." He was particularly upset that I took a tongue-in-cheek swipe at Cleveland and Cincinnati as "armpits." This was supposedly evidence that I hate Ohio. In truth, I was acting like a homer when I said all this. I was raised in Chicagoland and practically grew up in Wrigley Field. Back then, the Cinncinnati Reds were fierce rivals. That's all in the past. I still love Chicago, but...

I’m a free-trader and I hate tariffs — which are consumer taxes — but if ever there were a right time to impose punitive tariffs, it is now, and it is against China. President Trump is on the side of the angels on this one, and this is the right moment to shut down China’s abusive trade practices forever. Start with the basic facts: The average tariff that we imposed on China when Trump entered the White House was about 4 percent. China’s tariffs on us were about 10 percent and, even when including the 10 percent tariff that Trump...

President says Moore has withdrawn from consideration https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1123987855053873154

Moore came under intense scrutiny last week for his past writings on women, including several opinion pieces published on the website of the conservative National Review magazine in 2001, 2002 and 2003 in which he wrote that women should be banned from refereeing, announcing or bartending at men’s college basketball games. And in 2014, in a column he penned for National Review, Moore criticized a gender pay equality proposal from a Democratic senator, calling it a “laughably bad idea.” “The crisis in America today isn’t about women’s wages; it’s about men’s wages,” he wrote. “Men are still the chief breadwinners...

n praising the “brainiacs” who hold H-1B visas, Stephen Moore writes that “the firms that use these visas must affirm that they were not able to find comparably skilled American workers to do the jobs.” That claim is generally false. Most firms are not even required to advertise the position before applying for an H-1B worker. (Recruiting Americans prior to applying for an H-1B is required only for employers deemed “H-1B dependent” or “willful violators.”) Moore’s piece has remained uncorrected on the Dallas News site for six days and counting. The error is important because it touches on a key...