Economy
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June 9th, 2021
Biden speaks w arms wide open
President Joe Biden released his budget for the new fiscal year last week, and while many words could be used to describe its far-left policy proposals, perhaps the most important is “reckless.”
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June 1st, 2021
Biden speaks w arms wide open
President Joe Biden just proposed the largest budget (as a percentage of America’s economy) since the country was fighting Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan and Fascist Italy.
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May 28th, 2021
Biden w budget
The president’s plans to invest in infrastructure, education, health care and more would push federal spending to its highest sustained levels since World War II.
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May 21st, 2021
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It’s baaaaack! Inflation—the curse that helped make the 1970s a miserable decade—is finally showing up in official government data, though consumers have been encountering it for several months now.
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May 17th, 2021
Dr. Ben Carson
America’s fiscal house is not in order. The government spends trillions more than it takes in every year. For decades, our politicians have been more concerned with making speeches and raiding the treasury than sound economics and fiscal responsibility.
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May 14th, 2021
Pelosi & Schumer
Inflation is a regressive tax on the middle class and the poor. It destroys real income in order to reduce the real cost of debt service — until creditors revolt, and demand an extra risk premium for lending to profligate governments.
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May 13th, 2021
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell
By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – May 12, 2021 As vaccines roll out, more people are going out and spending their savings and stimulus checks. Demand is increasing at the same time supply problems frustrate businesses. Used car and truck prices jumped 10%, which accounted for a third of the month’s CPI increase. One reason: New car production has...
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May 13th, 2021
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Sometimes I’m left unsure as to what progressives believe the government is for. In response to the news that the key energy pipeline on the East Coast had been hacked, the White House said this:
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May 11th, 2021
Long lines at Atlanta Gas Station
People in Southeastern states have taken to Twitter to share pictures and videos of long lines at gas stations, with some reportedly running out of gas entirely.
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May 10th, 2021
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‘Every hospitality owner I know is suffering. We just cannot find workers at all,’ restaurateur Robert Mahon told the Daily Mail.
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