Policy and Government
Arthur Laffer: Trump’s first year was better than Reagan’s!
Stephen Moore to join Washington Times as associate opinion editor.
Larry Kudlow: Trump is ending Obama’s war on business.
Migration to low-tax states continues.
At the New York Times, Supply Side Icons Bill Gates and Steve Pinker interviewed by Philip Galanes:
PG: …Since Oprah’s near presidential announcement at the Golden Globes and speculation about Mark Zuckerberg’s political aspirations, have people asked you to consider getting involved in political public life?
BG: Well, I am involved. But I won’t be a candidate.
PG: Leaving the way clear for Steven?
SP: Wonderful!
BG: It’s tricky. You hope that as one party moves in one direction, the other party doesn’t move too far in the opposite direction. We’ll see. There haven’t been that many anti-elitists, anti-internationalists elected president. But we have one now.
Regulatory
The Washington Post discusses the Koch’s plan to transform education.
Rumors of War:
The Currency War?
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/25/business/steven-mnuchin-dollar-davos.html
https://www.cfr.org/blog/adjustment-hard-especially-if-it-involves-dollar
https://www.capitalspectator.com/is-a-weaker-dollar-a-plus-for-us-economic-growth/
The Trade War?
https://reason.com/archives/2018/01/25/trump-repeats-the-folly-of-protectionism?utm_medium=email