Donald L. Luskin

Joint Session Overshadows FOMC Session
Wednesday, March 1, 2017
Donald L. Luskin
March goes "live," and risk-tolerant markets don’t care. The "natural interest rate" is rising.
It’s a Good Time to be a Fracker
Friday, February 24, 2017
Michael Warren and Donald Luskin
Costs and regulations coming down, production going up – and oil is still headed for $65.
Yellen Gives Conservatives Something to Cheer
Friday, February 17, 2017
Donald L. Luskin
With three Trump appointees, the Fed is likely to move toward rules-based policy.
From Executive Orders to Spontaneous Order
Friday, February 17, 2017
Donald L. Luskin
If the Trump administration is so chaotic, why are markets so resilient and risk-embracing?
The Border Adjustment Tax and Its Victims
Friday, February 10, 2017
Michael Warren, Terry Higgins and Donald Luskin
When is a tax cut a tax hike? When refiners and other firms get hit with the BAT.
On the January Jobs Report
Friday, February 3, 2017
Donald L. Luskin
Post-election animal spirits drive a big beat, while the Fed is comforted by small wage gains.
On the February FOMC
Wednesday, February 1, 2017
Donald L. Luskin
The Fed will be extremely gradualist as the economy pulls out of “secular stagnation.”
Make My Inauguration Day
Monday, January 23, 2017
Donald L. Luskin
Trump embraces his risky role as an unstoppable force of change. Europe is next.
For Free Traders, Trump’s Corporate Tax Cut Is the Better Way
Wednesday, January 18, 2017
Donald L. Luskin
Instead of making the tax ‘border adjustable,’ simply lower rates to 15%, as the president-elect proposes.
On the December Jobs Report
Friday, January 6, 2017
Donald L. Luskin
The Fed says it’s tolerant of an “undershoot” in unemployment – which we now don’t have.

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