Wall Street Journal writer to discuss economic situation on Oct. 15

Wall Street Journal senior economics writer Stephen Moore will discuss the current economic situation at 7 p.m., Oct. 15, in York College’s Collegiate Performing Arts Center (CPAC). His talk, which is open to the public free of charge, will be followed by a question-and-answer session.  Copies of Moore’s latest book, “The End of Prosperity: How Higher Taxes Will Doom the Economy – If We Let It Happen,” will be available for purchase in the CPAC lobby prior to and following the talk.

A video on "The End of Prosperity" is available at http://online.wsj.com/video/the-end-of-prosperity/64C9DCA2-2017-4D61-BDE5-418228236DFF.html.

Moore, who is a member of the Wall Street Journal’s editorial board, is also an economic commentator for CNBC TV, where he appears twice weekly.

From 1999-2004, Moore served as founder and president of the Club for Growth, a 25,000-member organization dedicated to helping elect free market, tax-cutting candidates to Congress. In his tenure as president, the Club for Growth became one of the most influential and respected political organizations in the nation. In 2003-04, the Club for Growth raised nearly $22 million for Republican congressional and Senate candidates, making the Club the biggest single money raiser for Republican candidates outside the party itself.

 Moore has also served as a senior fellow in economics at the Cato Institute, where he had published dozens of studies on federal budget and tax policy. He is a frequent guest on CNN and FOX networks, commenting on economic and fiscal policy issues.

Moore has served as a senior economist at the Joint Economic Committee under former Chairman Dick Armey of Texas. There, he advised Armey on budget, tax, and competitiveness issues. He was also an architect of the famous Armey flat tax proposal.

From 1983 through 1987, Moore served as the Grover M. Hermann Fellow in Budgetary Affairs at the Heritage Foundation. He has worked for two presidential commissions. In 1988, he was a special consultant to the National Economic Commission. In 1987, he was research director of President Reagan's Commission on Privatization.

Moore is the author of five books, including “Its Getting Better All the Time: The 100 Greatest Trends of the Last Century” and “Bullish on Bush: How the Ownership Society Will Make America Stronger.” He is a graduate of the University of Illinois and holds a master’s degree in economics from George Mason University.