By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – August 1, 2025 The President has his new world tariff order in place, but jobs and growth don’t look so good. The details in the report provide little solace. The jobless rate ticked up only to 4.25% from 4.1%, but that was in part because the labor force continued to shrink. The labor...

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – July 20, 2025 Power shortages are coming thanks to wind and solar subsidies. Here’s how they distort energy investment. As we’ve been writing for years, the reliability of the U.S. electrical grid is in trouble. The Energy report projects potential power shortfalls in 2030, as 104 gigawatts of baseload power retire in the...

By: Jason L. Riley – wsj.com – July 8, 2025 He beat the Democrats with common sense on cultural issues. He has to deliver on the economy Similarly, Mr. Trump doesn’t buy the specious argument that police officers are a bigger threat than criminals to public safety, and he rejects the notion that immigration enforcement is rooted in xenophobia that endangers...

Explore the biggest conservative victory in 30 years with significant policy changes.

The shift away from the Obama-Biden system of the federal government picking winners and losers is a welcome change in our economy.

China’s economy is built on a system that distorts free trade. Determined to grow at any cost, China has been overproducing everything. It started with roads and rail lines, then moved to apartments and mansions, and now it’s cars, refrigerators and semiconductors. These goods are dumped on foreign markets, including in America. Trump’s tariffs may be disruptive, but they can...

By: Merrill Matthews. wsj.com – April 7, 2025 Allowing one-time, taxable IRA withdrawals would produce the billions in revenue Republicans are looking for. One of the problems Congress sought to fix in 2017 was the repatriation of U.S. multinational funds sitting in overseas bank accounts. At the time, U.S. multinationals paid the taxes due in the country where they operated,...

By: Karl Rove – wsj.com – April 9, 2025 This chaos has been bad for everyone. Can the master negotiator now turn it around? Common sense prevailed Wednesday when President Trump announced he’d pause tariffs on most countries for 90 days. It’s good for America and his own political standing that he’s decided to become a dealmaker. He’s certainly got...

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – March 23, 2025 California had a jobs recession in 2024, Texas had a jobs boom. Private businesses shed jobs in the year, including in construction (-28,600), manufacturing (-33,400), information (-11,700), finance (-21,800), professional and business services (-49,000), leisure and hospitality (-29,500) and retail (-4,300). Some job losses are a result of small businesses...

By: Ron Johnson – wsj.com – March 19, 202 The federal government gives less scrutiny to its spending than a private company—or your family. Unlike the federal government, families and private-sector businesses have to keep spending in line with earnings. To do so, they budget, estimating what their income will be and making sure their planned expenditures don’t exceed it....