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March 1st, 2022
Woman Ukranian soldier reflected in window
  One of the oddest commentaries about the Russian invasion of Ukraine is the boilerplate reaction that “borders can’t change in modern Europe” or “this does not happen in the 21st century.
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March 1st, 2022
pile of money $1s & $5s
Higher prices for basketballs, lipstick, pacemakers, and automobiles — brought to you by the U. S. Federal Reserve Bank, the Biden Administration’s Green Energy policies and Putin’s foreign policy.
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February 18th, 2022
Money Pit
As the greatest inflation spike of the last 50 years occurs, the utter failure of economists, their models and many pundits to foresee what was coming is worth highlighting.
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December 21st, 2021
Kids meet Santa
Working Americans have had trouble this year affording basic needs amid the nation’s soaring inflation rate.
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December 20th, 2021
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Lord John Maynard Keynes, progressives’ favorite economist, famously observed: “In the long run, we are all dead.”
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December 17th, 2021
Biden grins and shrugs
By: Henry Olsen – washingtonpost.com – December 16, 2021 Most pundits seem to be operating under the assumption that President Biden’s Build Back Better program will eventually become law. After all, it would be very unusual for a Congress controlled by the president’s party to reject his first major domestic proposal. But given developments in the past week, it might...
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December 16th, 2021
fed chairman Jerome Powell
The Federal Reserve provided multiple indications Wednesday that its run of ultra-easy policy since the beginning of the Covid pandemic is coming to a close.
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December 14th, 2021
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By: Phil Gramm and Mike Solon – wsj.com – December 13, 2021 The White House continues to insist that inflation will soon fade away and the country will return to its pre-pandemic prosperity. But the Biden administration’s regulatory agenda virtually ensures that the post-pandemic economy will be nothing like it was before. The mounting regulatory burden of Mr. Biden’s executive...
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December 10th, 2021
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General Motors (GM) has committed to spending $35 billion to bring 30 new fully electric vehicles (EVs) to its market worldwide by the end of 2025 — just four years from now.
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December 7th, 2021
shipping containers - port of Los Angeles
Democrats’ preferred method of solving problems isn’t going to be the reason that our ports get moving again.
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