Michael R. Strain, Columnist

The Right Is Wrong to Lose Faith in Economic Growth

Some conservatives forget what is driving gains for low-wage workers.

November 23, 2018 at 2:00 PM UTC

Michael R. Strain is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. He is director of economic policy studies and Arthur F. Burns Scholar in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute. He is the author of “The American Dream Is Not Dead: (But Populism Could Kill It).”

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Economic growth is under attack.

Or, more specifically, the idea that public policy should place a large amount of emphasis on the economy’s rate of growth is under assault by the political right as well as the left.