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<title><![CDATA[Irwin Stelzer - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/15013.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Irwin Stelzer]]></description><category domain="15013">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Big Tech Is in Big Trouble]]></title>
							<link>https://www.weeklystandard.com/irwin-m-stelzer/facebook-apple-amazon-netflix-and-google-may-get-government-regulation</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Irwin Stelzer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The FAANGs (Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Alphabet) have real problems.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Politics of Inflation]]></title>
							<link>https://www.weeklystandard.com/irwin-m-stelzer/trump-the-house-democrats-and-the-politics-of-inflation</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Irwin Stelzer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Unless political peace breaks out, the only way Democrats and Republicans can meet interest payments is to let inflation rip, devalue the dollar.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Trump's Booming Economy Sustainable?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.weeklystandard.com/irwin-m-stelzer/is-the-trump-economy-sustainable</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Irwin Stelzer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Growth trumps decline. That&rsquo;s what President Trump is gambling on to hand him victory if the trade skirmish morphs into a trade war.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Has Trump Won the Trade War With Europe?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.weeklystandard.com/irwin-m-stelzer/donald-trumps-meeting-with-jean-claude-juncker-was-a-victory-in-the-trade-war</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jul 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Irwin Stelzer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On July 25, 2018, at approximately 3:00 p.m. eastern daylight time, the tweets fell silent, and a truce was declared on the European front of the trade war between the United States and, well, the rest of the world.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Knows U.S. Holds a Winning Hand on Trade]]></title>
							<link>https://www.weeklystandard.com/irwin-m-stelzer/trumps-trade-war-really-might-be-easy-to-win</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Irwin Stelzer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Trump knows when to hold &lsquo;em and knows when to fold &lsquo;em, knows when to walk away and knows when to run, as Kenny Rogers advised all poker players. He was holding a losing hand when it came to handling the children brought to America illegally by mothers crossing the border...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Trump Jobs Machine Is Roaring]]></title>
							<link>https://www.weeklystandard.com/irwin-m-stelzer/trump-economy-is-creating-jobs-at-record-pace</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jun 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Irwin Stelzer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The great American job-creating machine, already in high gear, picked up in May, when the economy added 223,000 jobs&mdash;over 50,000 more than experts had predicted.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[All Trump's Trade Wars]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/all-trumps-trade-wars/article/2011747</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 27 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Irwin Stelzer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[To ask coherence of President Trump is to ask too much of a man with the attention span of a tweet, and for whom cognitive dissonance is not something he spends nights losing sleep over. So we have had large tax cuts, putting money into the pockets of consumers, which will enable them to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Tale of Two Americas]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/a-tale-of-two-americas/article/2010701</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 03 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Irwin Stelzer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It is the worst of times, it is the best of times. The worst of times if you follow American politics. All is turmoil.The Democrats are threatening to defund and shut down the government unless the president adopts their modest proposals: provide some illegal immigrants with a path to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Is Right: Chinese Car Makers Are Hosing U.S.]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/trump-is-right-five-ways-chinese-car-makers-are-hosing-america/article/2010554</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Irwin Stelzer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Had enough of theoretical arguments about free trade&#195;&#162;??of complaints by establishment Republicans and the business community that President Trump is leading us from the glorious era of free trade into a recession induced by his protectionist policies? Well here's a tangible example that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[There Is Nothing 'Free' About Our Trade With China]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/there-is-nothing-free-about-our-trade-with-china/article/2010456</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 14 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Irwin Stelzer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When President Trump talks tough on trade to one or several of our partners, he is being rude and wrecking the world trading system&#195;&#162;??in the words of the New York Times, adopting a When President Trump talks tough on trade to one or several of our partners, he is being rude and wrecking...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Sacred Science]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/the-sacred-science/article/2010448</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 12 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Irwin Stelzer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[They have come to Bonn, Germany, some 25,000 diplomats, scientists, and lobbyists from some 200 nations to put flesh on the bare bones of the climate agreement signed two years ago. That's when members of the congregation, gathered in Paris, pledged to limit further global warming to 2...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Facebook, Google, Amazon: Time to Break Up Big Tech?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/is-it-time-to-break-up-big-tech/article/2010245</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 31 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Irwin Stelzer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Uber comes along and ends the rainy days and nights of waving fruitlessly at cabs with flashing off duty signs, and governments respond to pressures from threatened incumbents by making life difficult or impossible for the welfare-enhancing newcomer.Amazon spares consumers the chore of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump, Schumer and the Real Art of the Deal]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/trump-schumer-and-the-real-art-of-the-deal/article/2009817</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 27 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Irwin Stelzer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I was very proud of the Senate Democratic Leader, Chuck Schumer. He could speak New York to the president. So said Nancy Pelosi, showing the distance between hard-left San Franciscans, for whom every belief is a red line they cannot cross, and pragmatic New Yorkers of both parties.She is...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Democrats Have Wrong on DACA &amp; the Dreamers]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/what-democrats-have-wrong-on-daca-and-the-dreamers/article/2009559</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Irwin Stelzer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This country's planted thick with laws from coast to coast&#195;&#162;??man's laws, not God's&#195;&#162;??and if you cut them down . . . d'you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake.So spoke Paul Scofield's...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Left Discovers Its Inner George Wallace]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/the-american-left-discovers-its-inner-george-wallace/article/2007180</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 12 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Irwin Stelzer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Who would have imagined that it would come to this? Leftish activists are campaigning to have the Confederate flag removed from statehouses, statutes of southern statesmen removed from campuses and public spaces, and the names of campus buildings changed to remove any they deem racist....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Climate Change Diversion]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/obamas-climate-change-diversion/article/2004165</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Irwin Stelzer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Obama will tolerate a lot for an opportunity to push his climate-change agenda. At this weekend's G20 summit meeting of the world's developed (aka rich) nations, which account for 85 percent of the world's economy, his Chinese hosts really poured on the humiliation.Unlike every...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Clueless Capitalists]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/clueless-capitalists/article/2001792</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Irwin Stelzer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Karl Marx, Joseph Schumpeter, and Irving Kristol have two things in common. All three recognized the extraordinary ability of market capitalism to produce goods, services, and wealth. And they hoped, believed, and feared, respectively, that capitalism contained the seeds of its own...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Francis in the Land of Savage Capitalism]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/here-comes-pope_1029034.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Irwin Stelzer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In eleven days the much-travelled Pope Francis will set foot on American soil for the first time: Unlike his two immediate predecessors, he did not visit this country before rising to the papacy. His baggage will include the mind-set typical of Latin American anti-U.S. populists, in his...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Death Comes for the Regulated]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/death-comes-regulated_786765.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Irwin Stelzer</author>
							<description><![CDATA["The dinosaurs surviving the crunch&#194;&#148; was how Stephen Sondheim described women living an outdated lifestyle and grimly aware that &#194;&#147;everybody dies.&#194;&#148; If Sondheim had the slightest interest in the less exalted subject of economics, he would apply that descriptive to a host of companies...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A New Energy Age]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/new-energy-age_703115.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Irwin Stelzer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Get alerts when there is a new article that might interest you."The tectonic plates are shifting"]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Printing Our Way Out of Debt]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/printing-our-way-out-debt_666577.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 15 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Irwin Stelzer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The fiscal cliff is a diversion, designed by politicians to conceal their inability to come to grips with the fact that they continue to spend too much, and refuse to reform a tax structure that reduces the competitiveness of American companies in world markets. No matter what deal is...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Elections Matter: Obama Will Get What He Wants]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/elections-matter-president-will-get-what-he-wants_665263.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Irwin Stelzer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Get alerts when there is a new article that might interest you.There is an increasing feeling that if President Obama's insistence on my way or the highway produces "a plunge over the fiscal cliff,"? catastrophes will follow, not least being a downgrading of our credit rating. Perhaps....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Knowns and Economic Unknowns]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/knowns-and-economic-unknowns_663902.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 24 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Irwin Stelzer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[By the end of this long weekend, we will have eaten (46 million gobblers gobbled up), travelled (44 million 50+ mile trips in cars, planes, and trains), malled (147 million crazed bargain hunters), and spent enough time watching football to have become familiar with every vulnerable bone...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Fiscal Cliff Calamity]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/fiscal-cliff-calamity_663345.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Irwin Stelzer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Hot Topics: Get alerts when there is a new article that might interest you.Let's be clear what the bargaining over the fiscal cliff is all about. It is not about a long-term solution to our run away deficits and the iceberg looming in the distance: entitlement spending that will sink our...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Election Over, the News Flows Freely]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/election-over-news-flows-freely_662360.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Irwin Stelzer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Hot Topics: Get alerts when there is a new article that might interest you.We heard throughout the campaign of President Obama's "all of the above"]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Alternate Reality at The New York Times]]></title>
							<link>http://weeklystandard.com/blogs/alternate-reality-new-york-times_658068.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Irwin Stelzer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Hot Topics: Get alerts when there is a new article that might interest you.There are two U.S. economies. Well, not really. But there is the economy reported in the New York Times as part of its  pre-election coverage, and far different one reported in the authoritative  financial...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Clinton Makes the Best Argument for Obama]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/clinton-makes-best-argument-obama_651829.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Irwin Stelzer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Hot Topics: Get alerts when there is a new article that might interest you.Many conservative commentators saw in Bill Clinton's speech an overly long, rambling, charming, endorsement of Barack Obama, a bit too wonky, and probably successful, if at all, only in assuring some wavering...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Michelle Obama's Alarming Speech]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/michelle-obama-s-alarming-speech_651719.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Irwin Stelzer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Hot Topics: Get alerts when there is a new article that might interest you.There is much to admire in Michelle Obama's speech to the Democratic convention: the admirable delivery, the praise of her husband's virtues was sincere and moving, and the rags-to-riches tale avoided seeming...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Obama Bankruptcy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obama-bankruptcy_650106.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Irwin Stelzer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Anyone who thought that the selection of Paul Ryan would force the president and his team to abandon purely negative campaigning had better think again. The presence of Ryan on the ticket has merely changed the target of Obama's negative campaign from Mitt Romney's performance at Bain...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's Time to Unemploy Obama]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/unemploy-obama_649300.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Irwin Stelzer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The latest jobs report should persuade all those who worry about the president&rsquo;s economic policies but find him likable that enough is enough, and that policy trumps personality when it comes to deciding who should occupy the White House. Job creation remains anemic, the...]]></description>
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