Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University
Arlington, VA
Joined February 2009
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Veronique de Rugy retweeted
It is also very likely that this guy has convinced the Vice President that there's a massive pocket of groyper and groyper-adjacent votes waiting to be tapped, and that they are his path to the nomination:
Veronique de Rugy retweeted
I despise socialism because my grandpa, who was a poor farmer, was sent to one of Stalin’s gulags and survived 18 months of hell. My parents who grew up in Soviet-occupied Lithuania weren’t rich either. My dad faced institutionalized anti-Semitism, and my mom couldn’t openly practice her Catholic faith. Socialism makes people poor. Listen to survivors like my parents. And please stop begrudging free enterprise. You want socialism having lived first-world luxury comforts. That same comfort is nonexistent under socialism/central planning. 🤡
Veronique de Rugy retweeted
Tariffs weren't a mystery for the last two years because they haven't been a mystery for the last two centuries.
My latest in @WSJ @WSJopinion:
wsj.com/opinion/how-do-you-l…
Veronique de Rugy retweeted
I’ve been inspired by Adam Smith’s ideas for much of my life, so receiving an award in his name, in the year we celebrate the 250th anniversary of The Wealth of Nations, is especially meaningful. Thank you Libertas, Denmark’s grand old classical liberal institution, for a wonderful honour!
Veronique de Rugy retweeted
Trump is calling the election rigged and doubling down on his unpopular policies with Stephen Miller.
Sanders and the online left are claiming a voter mandate for their socialist revolution, starting with M4A.
Everything changes... and to some, nothing changes. 😩
Veronique de Rugy retweeted
Here's the best defense of tariffs possible:
If we shoot ourselves in the foot at just the right angle and do so "surgically," the shrapnel will hurt our enemies enough that we can stop shooting ourselves in the foot.
Veronique de Rugy retweeted
Happy Diwali, everyone. May this beautiful Festival of Lights bring you and your loved ones peace, health, and prosperity.
I hope to hear lots of fireworks later, so please see to that.
Veronique de Rugy retweeted
“Dethroning economics" = promoting economists who validate a preferred program & sidelining those who identify its costs. The goals are “democratic,” the tradeoffs - apparently - reactionary; a familiar authoritarian impulse dressed in the lilting language of popular consent.
Veronique de Rugy retweeted
Congratulations to AIER President @DrSamuelGregg who today received an honorary doctorate from @UFMedu.
Veronique de Rugy retweeted
What a joy to be with @vpostrel @nickgillespie and @MattWelch last night. So many years of EICs in one place!
Veronique de Rugy retweeted
The "New" in the high tariff, tax hike curious, welfare spending "New Right" is the "Social" in "Social Justice"
It means "Not".
Veronique de Rugy retweeted
Congratulations to AIER President @DrSamuelGregg who today received an honorary doctorate from @UFMedu.
Veronique de Rugy retweeted
Thank you David. You are clearly correct that Vero is correct that I am correct about @JonahDispatch’s clear correctness.
Veronique de Rugy retweeted
Interesting. Robert Rector was probably Heritage's most influential domestic policy scholar of the past 40 years, with a huge role in the 1996 welfare reforms. (We co-authored a report in 2003 when I was there).
But, he criticized Tucker and anti-semitism, and now he's gone.
NEWS
The Heritage Foundation has ousted one of its most prominent critics of Tucker Carlson, Robert Rector.
Rector challenged Heritage President Kevin Roberts last year over his defense of Carlson.
Full Story: politi.co/4BQJpov
Veronique de Rugy retweeted
"Walmart doesn't offer its employees health insurance" hasn't been true for many years. Every employee who works 30 or more hours - more than 70% of the company's store employees, and more than 80% of their distribution-center employees - qualifies for benefits.
Talarico argues pro-business really means pro-big business, socialism for the rich, rugged individualism for everyone else
“I've seen that when people talk about being pro-business, what that usually means is being pro-big business, right?”
“we basically subsidize Walmart through Medicaid because they don't give their employees quality healthcare.”
“So again, socialism for the rich, rugged individualism for the rest of us.”
“And this is not a radical vision. It's what we had before.”
w/ @jamestalarico
Veronique de Rugy retweeted
.@washingtonpost reports a new joint Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania study finding data centers have "only a small effect on residential electricity prices."
Data centers were responsible for "just 4 percent of the utility rate increases over the last five years."
**Weak Connection Between Data Centers & Overall Electricity Prices**
"Multiple studies by different researchers and organizations have failed to find a strong connection between data centers and the overall trajectory of U.S. electricity prices in recent years."
archive.is/20261106122720/ht…
