Economy
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September 29th, 2025
Russ Vought’s Secret Shutdown Weapon
By: Kimberley A. Strassel – wsj.com – September 25, 2025 Democrats will suffer lasting effects if they go through with their threats. Washington is barreling toward a shutdown. The Senate returns from a break on Monday with two days to provide stopgap funding to keep the government humming. Messrs. Schumer and Jeffries are having none of it. They insist government...
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September 29th, 2025
BARCLAY: Canada is a failing state
For decades, the Canadian state has consistently located itself at the vanguard of progress and national excellence.
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September 12th, 2025
SCOTUS expedites Trump’s tariff appeal
Setting the stage for a major ruling on presidential power, the Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to decide whether a 1977 federal law giving the president certain emergency powers allowed President Donald Trump to levy tariffs on nearly all goods imported into the United States through a series of executive orders.
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September 12th, 2025
Can we trust the economic numbers?
The Department of Labor is initiating an investigation into how the Bureau of Labor Statistics collects and reports “closely watched economic data,” according to a letter the department’s Assistant Inspector General for Audit, Laura Nicolosi, sent to Acting BLS Commissioner William Wiatrowski on Wednesday.
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September 12th, 2025
The Department of Labor is initiating an investigation into how the Bureau of Labor Statistics collects and reports “closely watched economic data,” according to a letter the department’s Assistant Inspector General for Audit, Laura Nicolosi, sent to Acting BLS Commissioner William Wiatrowski on Wednesday. Source: Dept. of Labor launches investigation into data collection process at BLS | CNN Business
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September 4th, 2025
Trump Tariffs
President Trump’s newly applied tariffs on low-value imports will cost U.S. consumers money, potentially costing him votes as inflation rises and public approval of his handling of the econom…
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August 4th, 2025
Trump Economy Stumbles
By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – August 1, 2025 The President has his new world tariff order in place, but jobs and growth don’t look so good. The details in the report provide little solace. The jobless rate ticked up only to 4.25% from 4.1%, but that was in part because the labor force continued to shrink. The labor...
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July 24th, 2025
Risk to the Electric Grid
By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – July 20, 2025 Power shortages are coming thanks to wind and solar subsidies. Here’s how they distort energy investment. As we’ve been writing for years, the reliability of the U.S. electrical grid is in trouble. The Energy report projects potential power shortfalls in 2030, as 104 gigawatts of baseload power retire in the...
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July 10th, 2025
Trump and the U.S. Economy
By: Jason L. Riley – wsj.com – July 8, 2025 He beat the Democrats with common sense on cultural issues. He has to deliver on the economy Similarly, Mr. Trump doesn’t buy the specious argument that police officers are a bigger threat than criminals to public safety, and he rejects the notion that immigration enforcement is rooted in xenophobia that endangers...
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July 10th, 2025
Budget Victory and the Economy
Explore the biggest conservative victory in 30 years with significant policy changes.
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