Economy

October 23rd, 2022
By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – October 21, 2022 The President is technically correct, but he leaves out a few salient details. One is that the deficit would have been less than $1 trillion if not for his unilateral student loan cancellation. The $426 billion present value cost of his loan forgiveness, which he declared without the consent of...
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October 14th, 2022
The consumer price index was expected to increase 0.3% in September, according to Dow Jones estimates. It rose 0.4%.
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October 12th, 2022
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October 7th, 2022
By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – October 6, 2022 The madness of the Biden Administration’s energy policy has been horrifying to watch, like a car crash except all Americans are passengers. The latest bizarre twist is that the White House may ease sanctions on Venezuela and its dictator Nicolás Maduro in an effort to increase the supply of oil...
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September 29th, 2022
Inflation is going to pack a one-two punch for voters and consumers ahead of the midterm elections. The first is inflation itself, …
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September 27th, 2022
What?“We have to move away from the low-cost model of food production,” one member of the Dutch Parliament explained.
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September 21st, 2022
By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – September 21, 2022 The Federal Open Market Committee raised its target fed-funds rate another 75 basis points to between 3% and 3.25%. That’s the third 75-point hike in a row. More significant is the forward guidance in its median economic projections that rates could rise another 125 basis points this year and higher...
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September 19th, 2022
By: By Andrew T. Levin and Mickey D. Levy – wsj.com – September 19, 2022 Over the past year, the Fed has approached interest-rate adjustments on a meeting-by-meeting basis, focusing on minor differences about what it might do next. Meanwhile, prices continue to rise. The economy now faces a serious risk of persistent high inflation. To avert such disaster, the...
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September 19th, 2022
By: Charles C. W. Cooke – nationalreview.com – September 13, 2022 On the cardinal matter of inflation, Joe Biden is lost, and does not want to be found; he is blind, but does not want to see. Asked on last night’s 60 Minuteswhat he had to offer in response to the news that “last Tuesday, the annual inflation rate came...
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September 15th, 2022
By: Jim Geraghty – nationalreview.com – September 14, 2022 I had my doubts that having Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg in the office back in October 2021 would have made much of a difference in the supply-chain crisis that bedeviled the country in the fall and winter. I contended that the more uncomfortable fact for the administration was that Buttigieg...
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