Rick Newman

Elizabeth Warren has committed herself to a huge, government-run health plan that would eliminate private insurance, even though voters don’t like the cost or the tradeoffs. But the presidential contender has now rolled out a “transition” to…

President Trump this week gave a high-profile address on the economy that was filled with fiction. It’s just one speech of many, but it’s also a preview of the claims Trump will be making during the next 12 months as he tries to persuade voters to…

Most voters want to see the sprawling menu of Democratic presidential candidates shrink, not grow. But that hasn’t stopped former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick from joining the overcrowded race. Patrick, 63, is a lawyer and former executive at…

If you’re following Elizabeth Warren’s presidential campaign, you’re watching the most diabolically clever display of populism since Donald Trump ran for president in 2016. Trump trounced a dozen seasoned competitors by finding a way to connect with…

On Oct. 11, President Trump announced a “phase one” trade deal with China. A month later, it looks more like a phase zero deal. There is, in fact, no trade deal with China. Trump’s negotiators haven’t even agreed among themselves what they want from…

President Trump gave a big-deal speech on the economy in New York on Nov. 12 that was as much fiction as fact. Trump overplayed the health of the economy, said his daughter Ivanka created 14 million jobs, vastly overstated income gains on his watch…

Impeachment proceedings start in earnest next week, when the House of Representatives will hold its first public hearings into misdeeds by President Trump. This is something that doesn’t happen very often. Markets have been shrugging off the…

There’s already a well-known 70-something centrist running for the Democratic presidential nomination. Michael Bloomberg evidently feels there needs to be another. Bloomberg, 77, is reportedly ready to join the already crowded Democratic presidential…

You, middle America, are the battlefield for the top Democrats chasing the 2020 presidential nomination. All major Democratic candidates want to reverse Trump administration policies such as cutting taxes on businesses and the wealthy and trying to…

Wall Street is alarmed at the prospect of President Elizabeth Warren. As the Massachusetts senator rises in the polls, famed investors such as Leon Cooperman and Paul Tudor Jones have been warning that stocks would fall 25% or more if she becomes the…

Do you expect valuable stuff for free? If you do, you’re Elizabeth Warren’s sucker. The Massachusetts senator is basing her presidential campaign on massive new benefits for the middle class, paid for by somebody else. Her juiciest offering is “free”…

President Trump believes debunked conspiracy theories about Ukrainian malfeasance in the 2016 U.S. election. That has contributed to an impeachment inquiry against him. Turns out Trump favors bogus economic theories, too. Two years ago, Trump…

Democrats hope to win the White House in 2020 by flipping suburban women who voted for Trump in 2016. But they may be overlooking another key constituency: the farm and factory vote. Farmers and factory workers helped put Trump over the top in 2016…

If you’re a Democrat who supports “Medicare for All,” pick your poison. You can ruin your political career and immolate your party by imposing a ruinous new sales tax, a gargantuan income tax hike or a surtax on corporate income that would wreck…

Virtually every Democrat running for president has a plan to deal with climate change and global warming. President Trump? Nothing. Trump has one competitor, however, who says what most Republicans won’t. “This environmental and climate change stuff…

Here’s one collateral benefit of the impeachment proceedings against President Trump: He’s got far less time to hector the Federal Reserve, send stocks on trade-war gyrations or attack companies that are otherwise chugging along nicely. Trump’s…

William Weld, the former Republican governor of Massachusetts who’s now running for president, thinks impeaching President Trump and booting him from office would be an important safeguard against future autocrats. “I hope the Republicans are going…

Elizabeth Warren has a plan for everything. Some of those plans are expensive. With Warren emerging as a front-runner in the Democratic presidential contest, Yahoo Finance tallied the cost of her plans. Altogether, the Massachusetts senator’s agenda…

Democrats don’t like their presidential candidates. Joe Biden, 76, is too flubby, while Elizabeth Warren, 70, and Bernie Sanders, 78, are too unsettling. And all three front-runners are old-timers. This could be a breakout moment for Pete Buttigieg,…

Pragmatic Democrats are grinding their teeth over the direction the presidential primary election is going. Among the leading candidates are the geriatric bumbler Joe Biden, the radical scold Elizabeth Warren, and the cranky socialist Bernie Sanders.…