Articles by Veronique de Rugy
Veronique de Rugy – January 18, 2020
Support for Industrial Policy Is Growing
Support for industrial policy is growing. Thankfully, no one is talking yet about the full-blown central planning popular in the 1930s. Instead, what’s now in vogue is a 1970s and ‘80s-era version of industrial policy allegedly meant to improve upon th …
Veronique de Rugy – December 21, 2019
One Point Four Trillion Dollars
Future taxpayers will be getting lumps of coal for many Christmases to come.
Veronique de Rugy – December 13, 2019
Do We Treat Children Worse than Dogs?
In a typical AOC fashion, she went on a rant about how the free market treated “women and people who give birth” (whomever those non-women giving birth are) worse than we treat puppies. Why?
Veronique de Rugy – December 9, 2019
The US-Mexico-Canada Trade Deal Is Not as Good as Nafta
If the Republicans truly do care about the health of the economy and about the legacy of the tax cuts, they better stop mouthing the administration’s narrative on trade, and fight to stop the damage.
Veronique de Rugy – November 13, 2019
Proof That Tariffs Flood the Swamp
Recently talking from the Senate floor, Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) candidly acknowledged what most AIER readers have known for a long time: politicians are influenced by special interest groups, and, in many cases, this influence prevents them fro …
Veronique de Rugy – October 29, 2019
Government Spending is the Real Tax
If budgetary rules themselves are the products of the same political pressures and election dynamics that lead to growing debt and deficits, how can we get politicians to adopt strict and binding rules in the first place?
Veronique de Rugy – October 22, 2019
Five Wrong Claims about Trade
Debating trade issues with President Trump’s anti-trade supporters is a constant game of goal shifting. If you point out that the Trump tariffs are raising revenue for Uncle Sam on the backs of American consumers, they reply that Ch …
Veronique de Rugy – October 18, 2019
Medicare-For-All Is a Plot to Pillage You
We still have no clue just who will pay for what and how much the bill will be.
Veronique de Rugy – September 27, 2019
The FDA Created Illegal and Dangerous Vapes
The scale of the freak-out by governments around the U.S., and by Trump’s FDA, which make no sense.
Donald J. Boudreaux – September 26, 2019
James M. Buchanan: A Centenary Appreciation
Born on a Tennessee farm 100 years ago on October 3, Buchanan came of age when the ideas of John Maynard Keynes reached their zenith among economists.
