Monthly Archives: January 2025

Like our predecessors in 1930, we oppose the use of tariffs as a general tool for economic policy. By Phil Gramm and Larry Summers Jan. 30, 2025 1:55 pm ET In an extraordinary act of unity, 1,028 American professional economists in the spring of 1930 signed a letter urging Congress to reject and...

Johnson can keep the GOP united by proposing a bill ending every Democrat-supported malady at once. By Michael Solon Jan. 23, 2025 2:39 pm ET Now that Mike Johnson has been narrowly re-elected speaker, House Republicans are focused on using the reconciliation process to extend President Trump’s 2017 tax cuts and control the...

Limit asylum claims, reduce welfare and open the door to highly skilled foreign nationals. By Phil Gramm Jan. 13, 2025 2:25 pm ET My wife’s grandmother, Soon Nam Char, was a picture bride. Orphaned in Korea when the Japanese killed her stiff-necked parents, she came to America in the early 20th century...