Commentary

Proposed Merger Moratorium Would Jeopardize U.S. Recovery

By Timothy H. Lee
Friday, May 22 2020

Thanks to the deregulatory effort pursued by the Trump Administration since entering office in 2017, the United States possessed the strongest economy in human history when the coronavirus pandemic hit. By reducing government intervention in the private economy rather than maximizing it, we finally reached escape velocity from the Obama malaise, which was the objectively worst cyclical economic “recovery” in recorded U.S. history. Markets jolted upward under Trump after they’d flatlined for two years as the Obama Administration concluded, and private businesses…

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