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Economist Steve Moore took a blowtorch to Congress’ nutty and enormous spending bill which was passed just as the U.S. continued to reel from a crippling inflation crisis. Moore rebuked Republicans and Democrats for abusing Americans’ hard-earned tax dollars as if it were Monopoly money during the Jan. 2 edition of Fox News Live. “I’ve got to say this: Shame on Republicans — shame on Democrats in Congress for what they did last week” when “they passed that $2 trillion spending bill.” Moore specifically held the GOP’s feet to the fire: “Your job in 2023 is to cut government spending...

Former Trump official Monica Crowley and economist Steve Moore take a deep dive into what is behind inflation hitting a 40-year-high in June

Economist Steve Moore says that people are migrating out of states like New York, Illinois, California, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania and Michigan, and into other states like Tennessee, Texas, Arizona, South Carolina and Florida. "People are voting with their feet against the policies of blue state America," he said during an interview on the John Solomon Reports podcast Moore, the author of the book "Trumponomics," noted the U.S. economy's strong performance prior to the COVID-19 pandemic and said he believes that president Trump will secure reelection. He said that when voters cast their ballots, "it's not gonna be a popularity...

President says Moore has withdrawn from consideration https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1123987855053873154

The opposition research creeps have been on the job. Now that Herman Cain has exited from President Trump's consideration for a Federal Reserve board seat, the long knives are now out for free market economist Stephen Moore. One media hit job after another is now rolling out against him in the press today, and none of it has to do with economics. The left has made a big deal about Moore's presence on the Fed board  a matter of 'politicizing' it, but this is what 'politicizing' really looks like. The New York Times, home of nasty, embittered columnist Paul Krugman, is...

From the moment Heritage Foundation economist Stephen Moore’s imminent appointment to the Federal Reserve Board was announced by President Trump, Washington has been in full pearl-clutching mode. This week, the anti-Trump media found what they think is the smoking gun that will bring him down: a $75,000 tax lien. The only problem is that it’s the IRS that is wrong, not Steve Moore. First reported on Twitter by Heather Long of the Washington Post, Moore has an IRS tax lien filed against him totaling just over $75,000. The problem stems from a mistake Moore made on his taxes several years...

Warts and all, if I were a voting member of Congress, I would certainly cast a yea for the tax-cut plans passed by the Senate and House that are headed for conference (to work out minor differences) in the weeks ahead. These bills are not perfect, especially on the individual side. But the business tax cuts will generate an investment boom in the years ahead. And those cuts will bring economic growth back to its historical norm of three to four percent. Incredibly, the Joint Committee on Taxation, or JTC, scored growth for the Senate plan at less than one...

t's The Larry Kudlow Show! The suspect has been caught but there's still lots of information that we want to know. Today on the show, Larry talks with Gary Berntsen,author of "Jawbreaker: The Attack on bin Laden & al-Qaeda." Also on the show is Steven Emerson, executive director of The Investigative Project on Terrorism. Frank Gaffney, founder & president of Center for Security Policy. More great guests include Joe diGenova, founding partner of diGenova & Toensing and Art Hogan, managing director, head of equity research at Lazard Capital Markets. John Batchelor, host of the John Batchelor Radio Show joins Larry....

“What I love most about FreedomFest are the debates!”– John Mackey (CEO, Whole Foods Market)Many of my free-market friends have attacked Paul Krugman, the inflammatory New York Times columnist and Nobel Prize winner, for deliberately distorting the facts about the economic recovery, austerity programs in Europe, the federal deficit, taxes, school choice, etc. Krugman has been especially critical of the “Austrians” for predicting double-digit inflation and another recession.In response, Steve Moore, Peter Schiff and Robert Murphy, among others, have challenged Krugman to a formal debate. But Krugman has adamantly refused…Until now!I have just confirmed the Dream Debate of the Century...

The Second American Revolution by: Allie Winegar Duzett, October 08, 2009 “This is the real second American Revolution,” Steve Moore of the Wall Street Journal announced to the applauding audience at the Americans for Prosperity (AFP) Defending the American Dream Summit on October 3, 2009. Moore began by addressing the economic troubles America faces today. “It was really very depressing to me to see that we now have an unemployment rate that’s just below ten percent, the highest it’s been in twenty-six years,” Moore said. “It is one of the great tragedies of the past fifty years that we have...

While many on the left are reveling in the downfall of South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford after he disclosed his affair with a woman in Argentina, there's a sympathetic figure being overlooked that might have the necessary background to fill the void left by the governor should he resign. On CNBC's June 30 "The Kudlow Report," Wall Street Journal senior economics writer Steve Moore explained his close relationship with the Sanfords and raised a new political possibility. "This is such a tough thing for me Larry, because as you know Mark Sanford has been a long-time friend of mine," Moore...

Remember back in March when Congress had the brilliant idea to retroactively tax bonuses paid out by bailed out insurer American International Group (AIG)? The House voted 328 to 93 for the 90-percent tax on the $165 million in bonuses, but it later died in the Senate. Steve Moore, a member of The Wall Street Journal's editorial board, explained on CNBC's May 13 "Street Signs" that the punitive retroactive tax was just a distraction to divert attention away from the culpability of Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., and Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., for the current financial crisis. "Remember, Barney Frank was...

THERE'S A WORST CASE SCENARIO for Social Security reform that haunts the White House. It goes like this. With great fanfare, President Bush announces his plan for overhauling Social Security, creating private investment accounts for every American worker, and making the system solvent. He touts his proposal in his inauguration speech, the State of the Union address, and his budget. But when Bush unveils an actual bill--probably in February, maybe later in 2005--congressional Democrats scream that it would cut Social Security benefits by 40 percent. Worse for Bush, a number of prominent Republicans agree and criticize the president's plan, especially...

August 25, 2003 Specter Spins, the Times Swallows Yesterday's New York Times carried this brief correction: "An article on Aug. 10 about the Club for Growth, a conservative political organization, referred erroneously to a comparison between the voting records of Senator Arlen Specter, who has courted the group's support, and Representative Patrick Toomey, who is challenging him in Pennsylvania's Republican primary for the Senate. According to ratings in National Journal, Specter's record is less conservative than Toomey's." Behind this rather cryptic correction lies a story. On August 10, the New York Times Magazine ran an article called "Fight Club" which...

<p>A couple of years ago, the late economist and eternal optimist Julian Simon co-authored a book, It’s Getting Better All the Time, with Steve Moore, now of the Club for Growth.</p> <p>The book consists of about 100 charts, graphs and trends that showed how life in America had improved dramatically over the past century by pretty much any criteria you can conceive of to measure.</p>