Apr 14, 2019

Stephen Moore's greatest hits

Felix Salmon

Album cover — Illustration: Lazaro Gamio/Axios

Stephen Moore is still on track to be nominated to one of the Fed's open board seats.

Driving the news: This week, Moore went on CNN to say that "a gold standard would certainly be better than what we have right now" and that surging oil prices in mid-2008 were caused by loose monetary policy.

CNN's Andrew Kaczynski has found older statements from Moore, including:

Saying that "hundreds of economists" at the Fed are "worthless" and should be fired.
Calling for the elimination of both the corporate income tax and the individual income tax.
Declaring that the 16th amendment, which created the federal income tax, is "the most evil act that has passed in 100 years."
Saying that "you truly could not come up with a dumber system than Medicaid."

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Stephen Moore's greatest hits

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