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The Mark Simone Show

Mark interviews economist Steve Moore.

The Mark Simone Show

iHeartRadio and Mark Simone

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4.3695 Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2026

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Steve and Mark break down where gas prices could be headed depending on how the conflict with Iran unfolds and what that means for the broader economy in the months ahead. They also delve into Zohran Mamdani’s tax-the-wealthy plan, which, it turns out, would also affect the middle class. Steve also weighs in on TSA funding and how airports are holding up.

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The Mark Simone Show on 710 W.O.R. Well, Steve Moore, the great economist. You see them all over television. You can read his columns. And get his book, The Trump Economic Miracle, an excellent book, big bestseller. And he runs the committee to unleash prosperity. Their daily briefing, their news news analysis the daily briefing is the best

0:22.6

there is you can get it it'll come free to your email every day just sign up for it go to unleash

0:27.8

prosperity dot com unleash prosperity dot com steve more how you doing i'm okay i'm doing pretty well

0:36.0

hoping uh hoping that we get this conflict over with in a victorious way in Iran

0:41.2

so we can get back to $3 gallon gasoline, but I'm feeling pretty good about, I think we're going to see a change in direction in the economy

0:50.4

back toward the kind of prosperity we had in Trump's first year. And that just means,

0:57.2

you know, we're going to see gas prices fall again and we're going to bring inflation down.

1:01.0

So that's my read on things. Yeah. Now, let me ask you a question. If the price of oil goes up,

1:05.6

Democrats yell and scream that this, the price of oil going up, worst thing you could do to people,

1:10.0

it's crushing them, it's kidding.

1:11.6

Yet at the same time, they have done everything they can to raise the price of your electric bill. Exactly. Isn't that the truth? So they, you know, they want more taxes on oil. They tried to, remember they had a policy of, they wanted net zero, so we would use no oil, gas, or coal in this country, which would have been,

1:29.9

can you imagine how much we'd be paying today? a policy of they wanted net zero so we would use no oil gas or coal in this country

1:28.7

which would have been can you imagine how much we'd be paying today for gasoline if they

1:32.8

had eliminated American output and had not allowed drill but baby drill we'd be paying

1:38.2

eight dollars a gallon for gas so you're right there's a hypocrisy on the left they

1:42.4

keeps like oh look at this Trump's causing you know four dollar gallon gasoline or 450 dollars wait a minute you're right, there's a hypocrisy on the left. They keep saying, oh, look at this. Trump's causing $4 gallon gasoline or $4.50.

1:46.9

Wait a minute, you're the ones who want, you don't want people to use gas.

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You don't want people to use oil.

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Anybody who thinks we can power this country, you know, with all the manufacturing we have,

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with steel, the technology sector, our farms use a lot of energy. We're going to do that. We're a $30 trillion economy. We're going to power all that with windmills. Yeah. It's the other thing they did. Everybody's electric bill was $100 a month. Now it's $400 because of all their green scheme and regular climates. So why don't they bring our electric bill back to 100 like it used to be?

2:21.3

Yeah.

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And by the way, there's a good comparison.

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