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Trump's Own Regulators Declare War on Coal and Its Investors
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- By Stephen Moore
In one of the most convoluted lawsuits of all time, a cabal of state attorneys general and the Federal Trade Commission are now accusing financial firms BlackRock, State Street and Vanguard of monopolistic behavior. The complaint asserts that these firms bought coal stocks and then helped impose radical environmental restrictions on the companies they partially own so that coal output would fall and the price of coal would rise. The lawsuit alleges that this strategy generated "supra-competitive" profits for those investors.
Yes, Let's Attract the Best and the Brightest
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- By Stephen Moore
Situated on the outskirts of Sacramento is California's largest master-planned community, McClellan Park. It has homes, offices, restaurants, a hotel and even a 2-mile-long runway that serves jets. But 30 years ago, the location was a starkly different story: an Air Force base that had just been shuttered, costing 11,600 jobs.
Fundamental to this remarkable transformation was a federal program that incentivizes investment -- and stimulates job creation -- throughout the United States. That program, the EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program, still exists today. And amid uncertainty across the economy and in the financial markets, Republicans and Democrats alike should come together to support the program's expansion.
Trump's FTC Is Putting American Companies Last
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- By Stephen Moore
President Donald Trump's record as the deregulation president is nearly unparalleled. In his first 100 days in office, he has already identified hundreds of billions of dollars of potential deregulation savings in the areas of energy, education and housing.
Hooray.
But some of his new regulators in the Justice Department and at the Federal Trade Commission apparently didn't get the memo. The new FTC chairman, Andrew Ferguson, is pushing forward with lawsuits -- some left over from the Biden administration -- that could hobble U.S. businesses.
It wasn't supposed to be this way. Former President Joe Biden's antitrust warriors, led by the notorious super-regulator Lina Khan saw a monopoly in any business that dared make a healthy profit.
Sorry, Fannie Mae: We Won't Get Fooled Again
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- By Stephen Moore
Anyone remember back in 2008 when the housing market collapsed and the stock market crashed, with many tens of millions of Americans seeing their lifetime savings nearly wiped out?
Apparently the politicians in Washington are suffering amnesia -- even though it was the worst crash since the Great Depression.
What else has been conveniently forgotten inside the swamp is that the institution that lost the most money and required the biggest tax bailout wasn't any of the major banks that teetered on the verge of bankruptcy but Fannie Mae -- the government-guaranteed enterprise that insures federal mortgages and was supposed to NEVER fail. Fanny received nearly $200 billion of taxpayer rescue funds.
Washington's Latest Tax Assault on Economic Success
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- By Stephen Moore
What is it about politicians in Washington that they just can't stand progress or the thought of anyone getting rich?
That's the attitude of many Democrats in Congress as they try to cripple the private equity and venture capital industries with higher tax rates. These financers are some of the most dynamic risk-takers on the economic playing field. They are disrupting the old stodgy banking and Wall Street financing networks.
The PE and VC track records in funding small businesses and turning them into the future gazelles is almost a uniquely American success story.
Big, Beautiful Tax Cuts Should Offset Any Tariff Increases
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- By Stephen Moore
President Donald Trump has predicted that his tariffs could raise as much as $6 trillion over the next decade in federal tax collections. These include up to 104% tariffs on China, plus the combination of reciprocal tariffs -- we charge them whatever they charge us. Also, don't forget the protectionist tariffs on steel, aluminum, autos, lumber, etc.
The tariff rates put on the table by Trump are higher than those at any other time in the last century, so it is no wonder we've seen a painful stock selloff, reducing asset values by well over $7 trillion.
But what the markets are missing is that Trump has also announced that money raised from the tariffs will be offset by other tax cuts. If that is the case, then the net impact of the tariffs could end up being a positive for the economy.
Why Democrats Hate DOGE and Love Waste
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- By Stephen Moore
If you haven't watched the Bret Baier interviews on Fox News with Elon Musk and the other executives who have given their time and expertise to exposing the rampant fraud and inefficiency of our federal government, I urge you to do so.
It will infuriate you -- and that's what we need right now.
These Department of Government Efficiency volunteers are on a patriotic mission to repair our ship of state. They are hunting down the rats and scoundrels who have played us (we the taxpayers) for fools for so many years. It's the greatest robbery -- more than $1 trillion of fraud and corruption -- in world history.
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