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.”
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." ~…
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
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
