Veronique de Rugy

  • Introducing AIER’s “Qualified Opinions” Podcast

    AIER proudly introduces Qualified Opinions, a new podcast hosted by Veronique de Rugy that will illuminate the “challenges facing free markets, liberalism, and the political climate of today.”

    Introducing AIER’s “Qualified Opinions” Podcast
  • Industrial Policy on Parade

    “The fact that past industrial policy attempts were abandoned due to grotesque failure to achieve their goals seems to make no difference to those who are intent on reviving this practice.” ~ Veronique de Rugy

    Industrial Policy on Parade
  • The Road to Serfdom is Paved by Conservatives

    “While once at least paying lip service to limited government, fiscal prudence, and personal responsibility, conservatives now ignore the size of government and fiscal responsibility.” ~ Veronique de Rugy

    The Road to Serfdom is Paved by Conservatives
  • Covid Paycheck Protection Program: Promises Not Kept

    “The fact that PPP was poorly thought through, recklessly implemented and administered, and ended up benefiting those who are least likely to need it is, for politicians and bureaucrats, a feature, not a bug.” ~ Veronique de Rugy

    Covid Paycheck Protection Program: Promises Not Kept
  • Poverty Isn’t Just About Money: Expanding the Child Tax Credit

    “The truth is that no country ever got out of poverty because of income redistribution. If such ‘redistribution’ could deliver such a happy outcome, the U.S. should have no child poverty at all.” ~ Veronique de Rugy

    Poverty Isn’t Just About Money: Expanding the Child Tax Credit
  • This Is a Pandemic of Fiscal Profligacy

    “Very few seem to care that we’re closing in on $30 trillion in debt, the symptom of our insane spending. In fact, it has become fashionable to claim that we can borrow without fear of a debt crisis or of any consequences. Admittedly, one reason for this belief is that people like me have been…

    This Is a Pandemic of Fiscal Profligacy
  • Debt, Deficits, and the Donald

    “Fortunately, divided government will mean no Green New Deal, no federally mandated and funded paid leave, and no Court-packing. But it probably won’t mean less spending. In fact, Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell has already announced that we can expect another COVID-relief bill, one containing many of the Democrats’ favorite provisions, such as bailouts of…

    Debt, Deficits, and the Donald
  • The Many Ways in Which Freedom Won the Election

    “The media and the elites learned nothing from the 2016 election. But for now, some pretty awful policies were defeated. May the utter disaster and election mismanagement unfolding before our eyes in many states right now lead a few people to wonder why on earth they should believe that a government that can’t do something…

    The Many Ways in Which Freedom Won the Election
  • Opposed to Government Intervention, Crisis or Not

    “No matter what legislators do, even when they’re incredibly well-intentioned, the machine within which the decisions are made is by nature political and, hence, subject to special-interest influences, knowledge limitations, and path dependencies.” ~ Veronique de Rugy

    Opposed to Government Intervention, Crisis or Not
  • Government Can’t Police Itself

    “I will always support more transparency and more oversight, if only because doing so is part of my job and makes that job easier– one of which I’m proud. But intoning ‘more transparency’ is no silver bullet for shrinking the size of government and for getting rid of bad programs. The only ‘substantive’ result of…

    Government Can’t Police Itself