Latest articles by James Pethokoukis
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The economy is dragging. End the trade war.opinion The harmful and ill-considered conflict just isn't working out
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Greta Thunberg's prosperous futureopinion The activist is going to live on a prosperous, high-energy planet. And it's going to be fantastic.
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The backlash to the tech backlashopinion Here's what the tech haters miss
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The unserious virtue signaling of Elizabeth Warren's wealth taxopinion In its rush to punish the rich, the plan gambles with American prosperity. Here's why.
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Would a Democratic president really be better for the economy than a second Trump term?opinion Maybe the Fed should start worrying about a Bernie Sanders presidency
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America's new CEOs are telling the wrong story about capitalismopinion Shareholders actually love good corporate behavior
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Trump just showed his hand in the trade waropinion Now Beijing knows for sure the Trump administration has a low threshold for economic and political pain
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Republicans don't hate cities, they only talk like they doopinion If the GOP is still the party of growth, shouldn't they care about the places where growth is happening?
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The GOP's stupid swoon for big governmentfeature Conservative nationalists are now selling the virtues of industrial policy. Big mistake.
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Why America shouldn't stop at the moon — or Marsopinion Alpha Centauri, here we come!
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Can Democrats really beat the Trump economy in 2020?opinion What Democrats can learn from George W. Bush about beating an incumbent in a time of prosperity
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Trump didn't fix the economy that Obama didn't breakopinion It's not even clear what Trump has done to make the economy better
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Trump's war on Big Tech is getting even dumberopinion This is a serious issue that deserves sober analysis. Instead we have Trump.
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Josh Hawley's new tech bill would blow up the internetopinion A bad solution for a fictional problem
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Why Washington's war on Big Tech will fizzleopinion That's not necessarily a bad thing for consumers
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Why Nancy Pelosi's attack on Facebook is dangerousopinion Beware the slippery slope of social media censorship
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Why the fears of a U.S.-China tech cold war are overblownThe Explainer Such a standoff is extremely unlikely
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Democrats are cornered on Trump's trade war. But there's a way out.opinion How to be tough on China without siding with Trump
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How much credit does Trump deserve for the booming economy?opinion MAGA promised, MAGA delivered?
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Will the Trump economy doom the Democrats?opinion So much for that elusive recession
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Ray Dalio is wrong about capitalismopinion The hedge fund billionaire's critique of capitalism is a one-stop shop of dodgy, exaggerated, and incomplete economic claims that only embrace the most pessimistic interpretation of the evidence
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Don't let Trump blow up the Fedopinion Why President Trump's latest nomination to the Federal Reserve could undermine the central bank's most important asset: Independence
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The best thing that could happen to the American economy just happenedThe Explainer Is this the tech boom we've been waiting for?
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Elizabeth Warren's fairy tale about Big Bad Techopinion Her plan might be good for revving up a crowd, but it would be bad for America
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