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March 14th, 2024
graphic art by KOZ- white rabbit and Alice jump into rabbit hole amid climate disaster
By: Bjorn Lomborg – wsj.com – March 13, 2024 More than one million people die in traffic accidents globally each year. Overnight, governments could solve this entirely man-made problem by reducing speed limits everywhere to 3 miles an hour, but we’d laugh any politician who suggested it out of office. It would be absurd to focus solely on lives saved...
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March 14th, 2024
global warming - growth - protesters
The left has a new goal: degrowth. We should “buy less stuff,” forgive debts, grow our own food, etc.
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March 12th, 2024
Gary Cohn, the vice chairman of IBM
Gary Cohn, the vice chairman of IBM who also served as former President Trump’s top economic advisor, told CBS’s “Face The Nation” why consumers are correct to treat inflation as one of the most important issues. …
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March 1st, 2024
Biden turns to point to his Economic Security plan
Praise for Bidenomics from some media sources might lead people to believe our economic situation has never been better. What most Americans are experiencing is far less rosy.
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February 22nd, 2024
VERY long line at grocery store check out
In fact, Americans haven’t spent this much of their money on food since the early 1990s.
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February 20th, 2024
Biden turns to point to his Economic Security plan
In previous generations, Americans aspired to achieve a better standard of living than their parents. According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, the American dream consisted of “good jobs, a nice house, two children, and plenty of money.”
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February 15th, 2024
The US Department of the Treasury, Washington DC.
The Federal Reserve recently disclosed its preliminary income and expenses for 2023, revealing an unprecedented $114.3 billion in operational losses.
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February 14th, 2024
President Biden just signed a law
Last week, it was amusing/pathetic the way the White House explained away the decision not to have President Biden sit for the recent tradition of the Super Bowl interview with the host network.
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January 23rd, 2024
Tax time 2021 with 1049 individual tax form close-up
By: Brian Riedl – wsj.com – January 22, 2024 America already has the most progressive tax system in the developed world. As budget deficits surge toward the stratosphere, Congress will soon have to get serious about savings proposals. Yet reforming Social Security and Medicare—the leading drivers of long-term deficits—remains a political nonstarter. Neither party is willing to raise middle-class taxes....
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January 22nd, 2024
Trump speaking in National Harbor, MD - US flags
By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – January 19, 2023 After winning the Iowa caucuses Monday, Mr. Trump replayed a golden oldie of a campaign pledge: “We’re also going to pay off the national debt. It’s about time.” He said the same thing in 2016, before he added about $8 trillion to the tab. Roughly half of that was Covid...
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