Economics

August 19th, 2022
Economists know that taxes and government spending can distort individuals’ and companies’ economic decisions in both good and bad ways. And so responsible policymakers look for taxes that minimize those distortions. That is not the Democrats’ approach.
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August 10th, 2022
Households in lower-income countries typically spend a higher percentage of their income on food, making the pain of food inflation more extreme.
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July 29th, 2022
Some politicians in Washington don’t understand that increasing federal spending is one of the chief causes of inflation. Senate Democrats just rolled out new legislation titled the ‘Inflation Reduction Act.’
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July 28th, 2022
By: Kevin D. Williamson – nationalreview.com – July 27, 2022 When is a recession not a recession? When it is bad for Democratic incumbents. From time immemorial, the definition of “recession” in the financial press and the political conversation has been “two or more consecutive quarters of declining real GDP.” The Biden administration, fearing bad news in the near future,...
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July 28th, 2022
By: Phillip W. Magness – wsj.com – July 27, 2022 The Biden administration appears to be preparing for a recession—or rather, for news of one. Rather than tackling the underlying economic problems, the White House is playing word games. Economists have long defined a recession as “a period in which real GDP declines for at least two consecutive quarters,” to quote...
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July 26th, 2022
One economist instantly took the air out of the administration’s argument about what constitutes a recession.
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July 15th, 2022
Sri Lanka is an example of how easily ill-advised economic policies can turn a fairly prosperous country into one that is literally out of gas.
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July 11th, 2022
New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu (R) predicted that a recession is coming and blasted Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, claiming “she’s completely misled America” and should be fired.
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July 5th, 2022
By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – July 4, 2022 It’s embarrassing for the leader of the free world to sound like he’s channeling Hugo Chávez. A Chinese state media flack praised Mr. Biden’s tweet: “Now US President finally realized that capitalism is all about exploitation. He didn’t believe this before.” Or maybe he did, and nobody wanted to believe...
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June 24th, 2022
President Joe Biden and his economic advisors are dreaming up ways to fight rising gasoline prices. The steps they are reportedly considering would not just be worthless, they would be counterproductive.
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