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WSJ-The ‘Stakeholder’ War on the Enlightenment

Posted in: Uncategorized | May 23, 2022 at 1:06 pm , by mariel

ESG advocates would return society to the communal and stagnant world of the Dark Ages. By Phil Gramm and Mike Solon May 23, 2022 12:53 pm ET No one appreciated the power of capitalism more than its greatest antagonist, Karl Marx. Born of the Enlightenment, embodied in the Industrial Revolution, capitalism, according...

WSJ-The New Progressives Fight Against Consumer Welfare

Posted in: Uncategorized | April 13, 2022 at 11:09 am , by mariel

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The Biden administration wants to undo years of bipartisan consensus about antitrust regulation. By Phil Gramm and Christine Wilson April 3, 2022 5:05 pm ET With major antitrust legislation headed to the Senate floor, it is important to remember that over the past half-century, a bipartisan consensus has existed that antitrust law...

WSJ-Peace Through Strength Requires Economic Freedom

Posted in: Uncategorized | March 1, 2022 at 3:12 pm , by mariel

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The U.S. must not turn away from its main advantages: free markets and limited government. By Phil Gramm and Mike Solon March 1, 2022 2:13 pm ET As the U.S. pounds plowshares into swords for a second Cold War, lessons from the first one may serve those who care to consider them. The...

WSJ: The Democrats’ Tax-the-Rich Ruse

Posted in: Uncategorized | October 14, 2021 at 1:27 pm , by mariel

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The wealthy already bear far more of the burden in the U.S. than they do in other developed countries. By Phil Gramm and Mike Solon Oct. 14, 2021 12:49 pm ET President Biden’s effort to pass the largest tax increase in U.S. history is based on the verifiably false claim...

WSJ: Biden Turns Back the Progressive Clock

Posted in: Uncategorized | July 14, 2021 at 5:52 pm , by mariel

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Without the deregulation of the ’70s—which he supported—the economy would be smaller today. By Phil Gramm and Mike Solon July 14, 2021 2:16 pm ET In a sweeping executive order aimed at reimposing Progressive Era regulatory policy across the U.S. economy, President Biden recounted the foundational myths of modern progressivism. The first canon...

WSJ: The Filibuster Helps Nobody, and That Means You

Posted in: Uncategorized | June 21, 2021 at 10:12 am , by mariel

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With simple majority rule in the Senate, politics would consume the lives of ordinary Americans. By Mike Solon and Bill Greene June 20, 2021 5:57 pm ET As Democrats clamor to end the Senate filibuster, they insist that the filibuster is an ancient relic that nobody needs, that serves nobody’s agenda and that...

WSJ: Trump’s Protectionist Failure

Posted in: Uncategorized | March 2, 2021 at 2:08 pm , by mariel

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Tax cuts and deregulation spurred the boom. Tariffs delivered neither economic growth nor key states. By Phil Gramm and Pat Toomey March 2, 2021 1:26 pm ET Donald Trump was America’s first post-Depression presidential nominee to make protectionism a major plank of his platform. During the 2016 campaign he presented it, along with...

WSJ: Welcome to the Era of Nonstop Stimulus

Posted in: Uncategorized | January 3, 2021 at 2:15 pm , by mariel

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Spending didn’t speed the last recovery, but Biden’s team is keen to keep the money flowing endlessly. By Phil Gramm and Mike Solon Jan. 3, 2021 1:18 pm ET When President Obama’s last Treasury secretary, Jack Lew, made the extraordinary claim that the Obama economic recovery failed because Washington “stopped [spending] too soon...

WSJ: In Defense of Scrooge, Whose Thrift Blessed the World

Posted in: Uncategorized | December 23, 2020 at 8:01 pm , by mariel

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In the 1840s, Dickens didn’tsee how businessmen like his hero were already lifting mankind from poverty. By Phil Gramm and Mike Solon Dec. 23, 2020 5:36 pm ET No Christmas story except the biblical account of Jesus’ birth has been more often retold or more cherished than Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol,” published...

WSJ: Clinton’s Example for Biden

Posted in: Uncategorized | November 17, 2020 at 5:23 pm , by mariel

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Like the 1994 election, voters have chosen divided government—and issued a mandate for compromise. By Phil Gramm and Mike Solon Nov. 17, 2020 1:06 pm ET Republicans and Democrats campaigned on very different platforms this year, and the American people seem to have had their own agenda. By electing a divided government, Americans...