By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – July 4, 2022 It’s embarrassing for the leader of the free world to sound like he’s channeling Hugo Chávez. A Chinese state media flack praised Mr. Biden’s tweet: “Now US President finally realized that capitalism is all about exploitation. He didn’t believe this before.” Or maybe he did, and nobody wanted to believe...

President Joe Biden and his economic advisors are dreaming up ways to fight rising gasoline prices. The steps they are reportedly considering would not just be worthless, they would be counterproductive.

Chair of the Federal Reserve Jerome Powell contradicted Wednesday claims from President Joe Biden’s that “Putin’s price hike” is to blame for record high inflation.

By: David R. Henderson & Casey B. Mulligan – wsj.com – June 22, 2022  Most discussion about the possibility of recession focuses on the Federal Reserve’s monetary policies. But there are also factors on the supply side of the economy that may tip the U.S. economy into a recession. Among them are the tax and regulatory policies of the Biden administration. A...

The Federal Reserve Bank announced a 75 basis point interest rate hike on Wednesday, a 50 percent greater increase than the central bank had initially signaled it was going to make for June.

By: Kevin D. Williamson – nationalreview.com – June 19, 2022 Fiscal Armageddon is coming — eventually. It is necessary not to be an alarmist about that, but equally necessary not to be naïve about it. Fiscal Armageddon is what will happen when the U.S. government’s debt load exceeds its ability to comfortably service that debt. The U.S. government will face a...

Worrying your child will go hungry is the most basic fear of every mother. As a mom of two myself, I can only imagine the panic and anxiety mothers all over the country are feeling.

We hear plenty of reasons for the perfect storm that imploded California. One-party, progressive government, of course. Decades of unchecked illegal immigration, without doubt.

By: The Editors – nationalreview.com – June 13, 2022 As an expression of optimism about the current economy, “peak inflation” has had a far shorter shelf life than “transitory.” May’s headline inflation number of 8.6 percent put an end to hopes that surging prices had peaked with March’s 8.5 percent (in April, the year-on-year increase had declined to 8.3 percent)....

If there is one thing families and the economy—and the Biden administration, for that matter—don’t need it’s more inflation.