Stephen Moore (born February 16, 1960) is an American writer and economic commentator.

Quotes

• What makes peewee soccer particularly insidious is that boys and girls play together. The left has converted this sport into a giant social experiment imposed upon us by the geniuses that have put women in combat in the military. No one seems to care much that co-ed sports is doing irreparable harm to the psyche of America’s little boys.
  At this pre-puberty state of life girls tower over the boys and typically have greater coordination. Last year the Pele of my son’s league was a kindergartner named Kate Lynn—Secretariat in pig tails. During one game, Kate Lynn stampeded over Justin repeatedly, which, of course, did wonders for his fledgling self-esteem. After the third knockdown, I quietly pulled him aside and advised: “Remember that rule about never hitting a girl. Let’s suspend that for the next 40 minutes.” But he never did because she was bigger than he was.
  If the girls are bad, the moms are worse. They berate the referees. Taunt opposing players. Nag the coach unmercifully to put their no-talent kid back in.
  • 1998 (Moore, Stephen. "Soccer-Mom Hell". National Review. ; Tankersley, Jim; Bennett, Kitty (April 23, 2019). "Excerpts of Stephen Moore’s Writing: Bashing Women, Gay Rights and More". The New York Times. ; Tankersley, Jim (April 23, 2019). "Stephen Moore’s Columns Deriding Women Raise New Questions for Trump Fed Pick". The New York Times. ; Sonmez, Felicia (April 24, 2019). "Stephen Moore: Trump's federal nominee said women should not referee basketball - unless they're good-looking". The Independent. )

• The women tennis pros don’t really want equal pay for equal work. They want equal pay for inferior work. There's a very practical reason why Pete Sampras, for example, makes a lot more money than Martina Hingis does. He's much, much better than she is. The day that Martina can return Pete's serve is the day she should get paid what he does. If there is an injustice in tennis, it’s that women like Martina Hingis and Monica Seles make millions of dollars a year, even though there are hundreds of men at the collegiate level (assuming their schools haven’t dropped the sport) who could beat them handily.
  • Moore, Stephen (June 7, 2000). Battle of the Sexes: Nike's new PC ads. National Review.; Kaczynski, Andrew; LeBlanc, Paul (April 22, 2019). "Trump Fed pick Stephen Moore called it a 'travesty' that women 'feel free' to play sports with men". CNN. ; Telford, Taylor (May 1, 2019). "Stephen Moore has a history of questionable comments. Here’s a roundup.". The Washington Post. ; Mahdawi, Arwa (April 23, 2019). "‘No women anything': Trump Fed pick Stephen Moore’s list of misogynistic remarks". The Guardian. ; Tankersley, Jim; Bennett, Kitty (April 23, 2019). "Excerpts of Stephen Moore’s Writing: Bashing Women, Gay Rights and More". The New York Times. ; Sonmez, Felicia (April 24, 2019). "Stephen Moore: Trump's federal nominee said women should not referee basketball - unless they're good-looking". The Independent. 

• Colleges are places for rabble-rousing. For men to lose their boyhood innocence. To do stupid things. To stay out way too late drinking. To chase skirts. (At the University of Illinois, we used to say that the best thing about Sunday nights was sleeping alone.) It’s all a time-tested rite of passage into adulthood. And the women seemed to survive just fine. If they were so oppressed and offended by drunken, lustful frat boys, why is it that on Friday nights they showed up in droves in tight skirts to the keg parties?
  • Moore, Stephen (September 5, 2000). "Cornered on Campus". The Washington Times. ; Tankersley, Jim; Bennett, Kitty (April 23, 2019). "Excerpts of Stephen Moore’s Writing: Bashing Women, Gay Rights and More". The New York Times. ; Tankersley, Jim (April 23, 2019). "Stephen Moore’s Columns Deriding Women Raise New Questions for Trump Fed Pick". The New York Times. ; Telford, Taylor (May 1, 2019). "Stephen Moore has a history of questionable comments. Here’s a roundup.". The Washington Post. ; Levin, Bess (April 24, 2019). "Stephen Moore: Why Are My Misogynistic, Transphobic Comments Being Held Against Me?". Vanity Fair. 

• No Women. How outrageous is this? This year they allowed a woman ref a men’s NCAA game. Liberals celebrate this breakthrough as a triumph for gender equity. The NCAA has been touting this as example of how progressive they are. I see it as an obscenity. Is there no area in life where men can take vacation from women? What’s next? Women invited to bachelor parties? Women in combat? (Oh yeah, they’ve done that already.) Why can’t women ref he women’s games and men the men’s games.
  I can't wait to see the first lady ref have a run in with Bobby Knight....
  Here’s the rule change I propose: No more women refs, no women announcers, no women beer venders, no women anything. There is, of course, an exception to this rule. Women are permitted to participate, if and only if, they look like Bonnie Bernstein. The fact that Bonnie knows nothing about basketball is entirely irrelevant.
  Bonnie Bernstein should wear a halter top. This is a no-brainer, CBS. What in the world are you waiting for?
  • Moore, Stephen (March 19, 2002). March Madness: Seven ways to make it even better. National Review.; Kaczynski, Andrew; LeBlanc, Paul (April 22, 2019). "Trump Fed pick Stephen Moore called it a 'travesty' that women 'feel free' to play sports with men". CNN. ; Telford, Taylor (May 1, 2019). "Stephen Moore has a history of questionable comments. Here’s a roundup.". The Washington Post. ; Graham, David A. (May 2, 2019). "Why Stephen Moore’s Fed Bid Failed". The Atlantic. ; Jhaveri, Hemal (April 22, 2019). "Federal Reserve pick Stephen Moore thinks women should be nowhere near basketball". USA Today. ; Mahdawi, Arwa (April 23, 2019). "‘No women anything': Trump Fed pick Stephen Moore’s list of misogynistic remarks". The Guardian. ; Tankersley, Jim (April 23, 2019). "Stephen Moore’s Columns Deriding Women Raise New Questions for Trump Fed Pick". The New York Times. ; Tankersley, Jim; Bennett, Kitty (April 23, 2019). "Excerpts of Stephen Moore’s Writing: Bashing Women, Gay Rights and More". The New York Times. ; Levin, Bess (April 22, 2019). "Trump’s Fed Pick: Keep Women Out of Sports, Unless They Make Me Horny". Vanity Fair. ; Sonmez, Felicia (April 24, 2019). "Stephen Moore: Trump's federal nominee said women should not referee basketball - unless they're good-looking". The Independent. ; Levin, Bess (April 24, 2019). "Stephen Moore: Why Are My Misogynistic, Transphobic Comments Being Held Against Me?". Vanity Fair. 

• Capitalism is a lot more important than democracy. I'm not even a big believer in democracy. I always say that democracy can be two wolves and a sheep deciding what to have for dinner.
  • 2009, in the Michael Moore documentary Capitalism: A Love Story (Cummings, William (April 23, 2019). "Trump Federal Reserve pick Stephen Moore once said he's not 'a big believer in democracy'". USA Today. ; Harwood, John (April 18 2019). "The GOP is attacking socialism, but Trump Fed pick Stephen Moore pits capitalism against democracy". CNBC. ; Kaczynski, Andrew; LeBlanc, Paul (April 13, 2019). "Trump's Fed pick Stephen Moore is a self-described 'radical' who said he's not a 'big believer in democracy'". CNN. )

• The crisis in America today isn’t about women’s wages; it’s about men’s wages. Men are still the chief breadwinners in most families, and their wages are not moving much at all. If we look at Census Bureau data, we find that while men’s wages have risen by about 6 percent in real terms since 1980, women’s wages have risen by about 60 percent. Any gap in pay — real or imagined — is rapidly shrinking.
  Furthermore, the latest surveys of college graduates find virtually no pay discrepancy between men and women, so for this generation the 77-cents mantra is as outdated as bell-bottom jeans.
  What are the implications of a society in which women earn more than men? We don’t really know, but it could be disruptive to family stability. If men aren’t the breadwinners, will women regard them as economically expendable? We saw what happened to family structure in low-income and black households when a welfare check took the place of a father’s paycheck. Divorce rates go up when men lose their jobs.
  • Moore, Stephen (April 10, 2014). "The Real Pay Gap". National Review. ; Tankersley, Jim (April 23, 2019). "Stephen Moore’s Columns Deriding Women Raise New Questions for Trump Fed Pick". The New York Times. ; Tankersley, Jim; Bennett, Kitty (April 23, 2019). "Excerpts of Stephen Moore’s Writing: Bashing Women, Gay Rights and More". The New York Times. ; Kiernan, Paul (May 2, 2019). "Stephen Moore’s Writings on Women". The Wall Street Journal. ; Mahdawi, Arwa (April 23, 2019). "‘No women anything': Trump Fed pick Stephen Moore’s list of misogynistic remarks". The Guardian. ; "CNBC Transcript: Prospective Fed Nominee Stephen Moore on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” Today". Squawk Box. CNBC. April 30 2019. ; Tankersley, Jim (April 29, 2019). "White House Reviewing Stephen Moore’s Writings". The New York Times. ; Levin, Bess (April 24, 2019). "Stephen Moore: Why Are My Misogynistic, Transphobic Comments Being Held Against Me?". Vanity Fair. 

• We have got to get rid of the Federal Reserve and move toward a gold standard in this country.
  • September 12, 2015 at a FreedomWorks event (Schroeder, Pete; Schneider, Howard (April 12, 2019). "Criticism mounts of Trump pick for U.S. Federal Reserve". Reuters. ; Kaczynski, Andrew; LeBlanc, Paul (April 13, 2019). "Trump's Fed pick Stephen Moore is a self-described 'radical' who said he's not a 'big believer in democracy'". CNN. ; Hananoki, Eric (April 16, 2019). "Eight times that Trump Fed pick Stephen Moore has endorsed some version of the gold standard". Media Matters for America. )

• We have courts overturning the will of the people in state after state on issues like gay marriage and if you are — God forbid — for traditional marriage and refuse to bake the cake, you are chastised as a bigot.
  • Moore, Stephen (April 4, 2016). "Do Liberals Hate America?". Christian Broadcasting Network. ; Tankersley, Jim; Bennett, Kitty (April 23, 2019). "Excerpts of Stephen Moore’s Writing: Bashing Women, Gay Rights and More". The New York Times. 

• I am not an expert on monetary policy.
  • August 26, 2016 on C-SPAN ("U.S. Economy and the 2016 Election". C-SPAN. August 26, 2016. ; Chait, Jonathan (April 9, 2019). "Trump Federal Reserve Nominee Admitted ‘I’m Not an Expert on Monetary Policy’". New York. ; Schroeder, Pete; Schneider, Howard (April 12, 2019). "Criticism mounts of Trump pick for U.S. Federal Reserve". Reuters. 

• I’m a radical on this; I’d get rid of a lot of these child labour laws. I want people starting to work at 11, 12.
  • 2016, during a debate on the minimum wage at the 2016 Republican National Convention sponsored by FreedomWorks (Tankersley, Jim (April 29, 2019). "White House Reviewing Stephen Moore’s Writings". The New York Times. ; Telford, Taylor (May 1, 2019). "Stephen Moore has a history of questionable comments. Here’s a roundup.". The Washington Post. ; Graham, David A. (May 2, 2019). "Why Stephen Moore’s Fed Bid Failed". The Atlantic. )

• The Fed is a disaster. We should have a discussion in this country about whether we need a Fed.
  • December, 2018, in an interview by The Wall Street Journal (Timiraos, Nick (March 22, 2019). "Trump Offers Fed Board Position to Economic Commentator Stephen Moore". The Wall Street Journal. )

• I’m kind of new to this game, frankly, so I’m going to be on a steep learning curve myself about how the Fed operates, how the Federal Reserve makes its decisions. It’s hard for me to say even what my role will be there, assuming I get confirmed.
  • March 22, 2019 on Bloomberg Television (Murray, Brendan (March 24, 2019). "Swift Pushback on Stephen Moore, Trump's Latest Pick for the Fed". Bloomberg News. ; Graham, David A. (May 2, 2019). "Why Stephen Moore’s Fed Bid Failed". The Atlantic. ; O'Brien, Matt (April 6, 2019). "Some Republican economists are opposed to Stephen Moore’s Fed nomination. More should be.". The Washington Post. )

Quotes about Moore

• Steve is a perfectly amiable guy, but he does not have the intellectual gravitas for this important job....
  It is time for Senators to do their job. Mr. Moore should not be confirmed.
  • Greg Mankiw, Harvard University economist (Mankiw, Greg (March 22, 2019). Memo to Senate: Just Say No.; "Top economists worry Fed pick Stephen Moore is ‘a propagandist,’ lacks knowledge". Associated Press. MarketWatch. March 28, 2019. ; Zarroli, Jim (March 22, 2019). "Trump To Nominate Stephen Moore To The Fed. Both Say It Raised Rates Too Much". NPR. ; O'Brien, Matt (April 6, 2019). "Some Republican economists are opposed to Stephen Moore’s Fed nomination. More should be.". The Washington Post. ; Murray, Brendan (March 24, 2019). "Swift Pushback on Stephen Moore, Trump's Latest Pick for the Fed". Bloomberg News. )

• Stephen Moore is a particularly poor choice for the Federal Reserve Board. He appears more devoted to pursuing a far-right economic agenda than willing to understand the complexity of economic policy.
  • Tim Duy, University of Oregon economist (Tankersley, Jim (March 22, 2019). "Trump Taps Fed Critic Stephen Moore for Board Seat". The New York Times. ; Levin, Bess (March 22, 2019). "“Ivanka would be a better pick”: Trump's Fed Nominee Trashed by Everyone With a Brain". Vanity Fair. ; Zarroli, Jim (March 22, 2019). "Trump To Nominate Stephen Moore To The Fed. Both Say It Raised Rates Too Much". NPR. )

• This is the first genuinely bad Trump pick for the Fed. He hasn’t gotten a thing right in twenty years, (check the record), and the Senate should not confirm him.
  Here’s my challenge to any informed voter of any partisan leaning: call your favorite economist. Whether they’re left, right, libertarian or socialist, none of them will endorse Stephen Moore for the Fed. He’s manifestly unqualified....By the way, and I’m totally serious about this—I think Ivanka would be a better pick for the Fed than Stephen Moore.
  • Justin Wolfers, University of Michigan economist, via Twitter (Levin, Bess (March 22, 2019). "“Ivanka would be a better pick”: Trump's Fed Nominee Trashed by Everyone With a Brain". Vanity Fair. ; Long, Heather (March 22, 2019). "Trump picks close ally Stephen Moore for Fed seat as economy shows signs of weakness". The Washington Post. )

• This is truly an appalling appointment. An ideologue, charlatan, and hack. Frankly so bad the putatively serious economists in Trump administration should resign as matter of honor.
  • Steven Durlauf, University of Chicago economist, via Twitter (Levin, Bess (March 22, 2019). "“Ivanka would be a better pick”: Trump's Fed Nominee Trashed by Everyone With a Brain". Vanity Fair. )

• Look at his writings! I’m not enthused. I’m a woman.
  • Senator Joni Ernst of Iowa (Graham, David A. (May 2, 2019). "Why Stephen Moore’s Fed Bid Failed". The Atlantic. )

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