Latest articles by James Pethokoukis
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Why can't America build things anymore?
opinion Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen says it's time to build. Why haven't we been?
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The left refights the financial crisis
opinion The economy is crashing from government intervention — and the left is blaming capitalism
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Washington's misguided pivot to infrastructure
opinion It's still not time for Infrastructure Week
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America is going to need a bigger stimulus
opinion At 10 percent of GDP, the Senate's bill is nearly three times the size of the 2009 stimulus. But it's not enough.
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The best way to avoid a coronavirus depression
opinion Save jobs later by saving small- and medium-sized businesses now
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Congress needs to start writing checks
opinion Why the time for stimulus is now — and why legislators from both parties are hesitating
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Is coronavirus really a black swan event?
opinion The coronavirus, although dangerous and scary, isn't some unpredictable event
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A coronavirus recession would likely end Trump's presidency
opinion Time to get worried, Republicans
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There's a way Democrats can beat the Trump economy — but they won't like it
opinion George W. Bush's 2000 campaign is the roadmap
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What would Trump do in a second term?
opinion More nationalism. More debt. More Trump.
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Why Wall Street isn't freaking out about Bernie Sanders
opinion Investors think President Sanders is unlikely and his agenda passing Congress unlikelier still
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Late capitalism isn't killing us
opinion Drugs were behind the opioid crisis, not globalization
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Has Bernie Sanders learned anything over the past 50 years?
opinion Supporters love his consistency. It's also a problem.
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Trump just ran a two-year trade war experiment. It failed.
opinion Why free-traders should celebrate Trump's "phase one" deal with China
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America dreams of Chinese state capitalism
The Explainer Is it time for Washington to play China's game?
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The weird criticism that Big Tech is too digital
feature Google and Facebook haven't built flying cars — and that's okay
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What has 'Trump the disrupter' actually disrupted?
opinion On the exceedingly conventional economics of the Trump presidency
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Escalating the trade war is risky for Trump. Signing a deal with China may be even riskier.
feature Whoever said trade wars were good and easy to win?
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Democrats are running into Trump's economic buzzsaw
opinion If you're a president who promised to make America great again, and the unemployment rate falls to its lowest level since the early 1950s, it looks like you're making American great again
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What left and right alike get wrong about 'late' capitalism
opinion Capitalism isn't broken — but productivity might be
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Elizabeth Warren's wealth tax is bad politics and worse policy
opinion Even Denmark, Finland, Iceland, and Sweden think this is a bad idea
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Elizabeth Warren is the new Paul Ryan
opinion A wonk-approved politician releases an audaciously ambitious plan to remake American government — only the math falls apart on close inspection. Sound familiar?
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Why has America stopped caring about the future?
opinion How the country became harmfully obsessed with the present
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The 2020 Democrats are totally missing what's wrong with the American economy
opinion More robots, please
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