After the fortunate demise of President Trump’s nomination of Republican hustler Stephen Moore for a position on the Federal Reserve, Paul Krugman remarked “Aside from Harvard’s Greg Mankiw, not one prominent Republican economist stepped up to oppose Moore.”1 And indeed “Greg”, as I guess his friends like to call him, gave the news of Steve’s…
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The Wall Street Journal sends up a flair
In the course of an article about political protest in North Carolina, Wall Street Journal editorial board member and senior economics writer Stephen Moore takes on Rev. William Barber II, “a loquacious, likable and politically shrewd preacher and leader of the North Carolina NAACP.” Moore describes Barber’s reaction to proposed changes to North Carolina’s election…