Economy

December 14th, 2021
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
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
Democrats’ preferred method of solving problems isn’t going to be the reason that our ports get moving again.
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December 2nd, 2021
Democrats are on a mission to dispel any notion that massive new government spending in their Build Back Better (BBB) bill will let roaring inflation out of its decades-old cage.
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November 23rd, 2021
Our wonderful “experts” are instructing us not to use the term “looting” to describe the mass looting and brazen shoplifting plaguing the San Francisco Bay Area.
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November 23rd, 2021
Inflation versus Rising PricesInflation is an increase in the overall general price level of an economy.
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November 22nd, 2021
By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – November 21, 2021 The Kyle Rittenhouse acquittal dominated the weekend news, but the more significant story for the long run was House passage Friday of the multi-trillion-dollar tax, climate and entitlement spending bill. Speaker Nancy Pelosi marched her majority off a cliff in 2010 with votes on ObamaCare, and now she has done...
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November 19th, 2021
By: Phil Gramm and Mike Solon – wsj.com – November 18, 2021 Long before the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported inflation had hit a 30-year high, Sen. Joe Manchin (D., W.Va.) raised concerns about how President Biden’s Build Back Better bill would affect the economy, the national debt, entitlements and especially inflation. To assess the bill’s potential consequences, he demanded, among...
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November 11th, 2021
A vote for the bipartisan infrastructure bill is a vote for Biden’s reconciliation legislation — the largest cradle-to-grave expansion since the New Deal.
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November 11th, 2021
By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – November 10, 2021 For something we’re told is “transitory,” inflation sure is persistent. The latest evidence arrived with a jolt Wednesday when the Labor Department reported that consumer prices jumped 0.9% in October, or 6.2% from a year ago and the fifth straight month higher than 5%. That’s also the fastest rate since...
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