Veronique de Rugy is a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and a nationally syndicated columnist.
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Oct 25, 2025Socialism is government control of the means of production. When the government becomes your largest shareholder, that's a strong first step. -
Oct 10, 2025Four ideas for health care reform that are better than extending Obamacare subsidies and a government shutdown. -
Oct 2, 2025This time, Democrats turned the most basic government housekeeping into hostage drama. -
Sep 19, 2025When the president takes equity stakes or pressures firms at will, investment and risk-taking give way to hesitation. -
Sep 5, 2025Some policymakers say the federal government's Intel stake should be a "down payment" on a U.S. sovereign wealth fund. The idea is terrible. -
Aug 1, 2025It's time to ask what level of spending Americans truly want with the money we actually have. -
Jul 25, 2025The executive branch wants to use the Federal Reserve as a tool to accommodate the government's frenzy of reckless borrowing. -
Jun 13, 2025The bill will add to our debt and suppress growth. -
Jun 6, 2025A new comprehensive review finds the negative effects of trade with China have been significantly exaggerated. -
May 15, 2025If you voted for President Donald Trump last November because you believed he'd increase economic freedom, it's safe to say you were fooled. -
May 9, 2025We don't need more of the same. We need evidence of a serious turnaround. -
Apr 30, 2025A trendy idea within both parties is to cut red tape to encourage investment and innovation. Our current tax laws discourage both. -
Apr 26, 2025History may not perfectly repeat itself, but it often rhymes. Two protectionist episodes—the infamous Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 and the Trump-era -
Apr 17, 2025An innovative ecosystem relies on market-driven capital formation, fast scaling, and wide and ready access to inputs—all of which are undermined by the policies many Republicans... -
Apr 3, 2025Lower income families will suffer the most. -
Mar 28, 2025Our manufacturing output, even adjusted for inflation, is near all time highs. -
Mar 14, 2025Deficit spending, protectionism, corporate tax hikes, interest-rate caps, and public-sector union support are dead end policies. -
Feb 28, 2025Tariffs and the so-called DOGE dividend could easily deliver the opposite of what Americans wanted when they voted for Trump. -
Feb 14, 2025Even if the Department of Government Efficiency eliminates all improper payments and fraud, we'll still be facing a debt explosion—which requires structural reform. -
Feb 12, 2025It’s time for the steel industry and the government to get a divorce. -
Feb 6, 2025The fate of President Donald Trump's ambitious economic policy plans will be determined by the people he appoints to critical positions. -
Jan 31, 2025Trump's anti-trade policies run the risk of choking off the growth he's trying to promote. -
Jan 17, 2025The Federal Reserve's premature victory lap over inflation reveals a worrisome misunderstanding of the predicament we still find ourselves in. -
Jan 10, 2025The arrival of a new presidential administration invokes new beginnings and a break from the past. Still, realities from previous administrations remain, -
Jan 3, 2025You can say what you want about Elon Musk, but he is able to pinpoint in a single tweet some of the most dysfunctional aspects of our federal government.
