By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – March 12, 2023 This is a de facto bailout of the banking system, even as regulators and Biden officials have been telling us that the economy is great and there was nothing to worry about. The unpleasant truth—which Washington will never admit—is that SVB’s failure is the bill coming due for years of monetary and...

The comments were Powell’s first since inflation unexpectedly jumped in January, and marked a stark acknowledgement that the “disinflationary process” he spoke of repeatedly in a Feb. 1 news conference was not unfolding smoothly.

Government imposes a million rules. Americans seem to want more! Leftists want new gun laws and bans on single-use plastics, gas stoves, fossil fuels, gas-powered cars, nuclear power.  

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – March 7, 2023 The White House in a fact sheet previewed a proposal for “extending Medicare solvency” in its budget outline for fiscal 2024, set for release Thursday. Mr. Biden says he’ll extend “the life of the Medicare Trust Fund by at least 25 years,” without “benefit cuts” while “lowering costs for Medicare...

Do Democrats think Portland isn’t screwed up enough and throwing free money at it will solve things?

Two Democratic senators voted with the GOP on a measure to roll back a Labor Department rule in what is set to force President Joe Biden’s first use of executive veto power.

President Joe Biden said this week that he would veto any attempt by Congress to protect Americans’ retirement savings from ending up tied to woke ESG — environmental and social governance — obsessed entities.

U.S. households are racking up credit card debt as they confront relentlessly high prices for everyday necessities, the New York Federal Reserve reported Thursday.

By: George Will – washingtonpost.com – February 17, 2023 In his State of the Union address, President Biden had thoughts about almost everything, even unto the crisis of hotel “resort fees.” He was, however, parsimonious with words — just a three-word boast about “reducing student debt” — concerning his policy of student loan forgiveness. His reticence about unilaterally spending, by executive fiat, about  $400...

By: Daniel J. Pilla – nationalreview.com – January 27, 2023 In what is certainly the shortest bill regarding federal revenue that I’ve ever seen come out of the House of Representatives, the House voted to rescind much of the $80 billion funding granted to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) by the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. The bill, H.R. 9092, known...