VERONIQUE de RUGY

VERONIQUE de RUGY

Washington, D.C.
Veronique de Rugy is a columnist for The New York Sun.

Veronique de Rugy is the George Gibbs Chair in Political Economy and a senior…

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Opinion (Columnists)

If Your Taxes Were Too High This Year, Just Wait Until America’s Debt Bill Comes Due

If spending isn’t cut, taxes will have to be raised on everyone, a lot.

AP/Jon Elswick, file
Opinion (Other)

Can America Return to the Fiscal and Monetary Norms Established by Hamilton, Its First Treasury Secretary?

The fear is that eroding fiscal norms will change investors’ expectations about being repaid for government debt, something that comes with just about every bad economic consequence one can imagine.

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Opinion (Columnists)

Washington’s ‘Job Creation’ Circus Is Spending Trillions for Corporate Welfare, With Little Impact on Hiring

Industrial policy won’t create jobs for poorly educated workers, but it will supercharge cronyism.

AP/Nam Y. Huh
Opinion (Other)

If the Economy Is So Great, Why Are Americans So Grumpy? New Study Reckons Inflation Is Underestimated

Even if every newspaper and the President insist that Americans’ lives are getting better because of falling inflation, we know that’s not right.

AP/Susan Walsh
Opinion (Other)

Nippon Steel’s Purchase of U.S. Steel Would Boost American Prosperity, Yet Politicians Stand in the Way

‘National security’ is being used to scare Americans into thinking that a good deal for investors, employees and the economy will somehow make America less militarily secure.

AP/Gene J. Puskar, file
Opinion (Columnists)

Biden’s Corporate Tax Hike, Rooted in Populist Rhetoric More Than Economic Logic, Will Hurt Labor, Consumers

Unfortunately, no fiscally irresponsible budget is complete without soothing individual taxpayers by promising to tax corporations.

AP/Jon Elswick, file
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