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...

Almost all of the media attention and debate around President Biden’s student loan forgiveness executive order has been focused on past and present students who currently have student loans—what’s referred to as a one-time loan forgiveness (or debt cancellation). But …

Inflation is the measure of price increases year over year, typically based on a “basket” of goods and services consumed by “average” Americans.

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...

By: Charles L. Hooper & David R. Henderson – wsj.com – September 13, 2022 Virtually no products are more valuable than the modern medicines produced by the biopharmaceutical industry. They cure diseases and extend lives. We’ve all heard that Americans pay higher drug prices than people in other countries. That’s true, but only when comparing retail prices of brand-name drugs. Very few Americans pay...

By: Charles C. W. Cooke – nationalreview.com – September 13, 2022 President Joe Biden believes that he will wake up one day and inflation will have disappeared in a puff of malarkey. To see this article in its entirety and subscribe to others like it, choose to read more. Source: Inflation Reduction Act: Joe Biden Can’t Pretend Inflation Away |...

By: Jed Rubenfeld & William P. Barr – wsj.com – September 6, 2022 Nineteen state attorneys general wrote a letter last month to BlackRock CEO Laurence D. Fink. They warned that BlackRock’s environmental, social and governance investment policies appear to involve “rampant violations” of the sole interest rule, a well-established legal principle. The sole interest rule requires investment fiduciaries to act...

Here’s a modest proposal: Colleges and universities should draw from their own endowments to provide student loans before that obligation is foisted off on taxpayers.

There are reasons why European Union member countries never embraced the shale fracking revolution that played such an important role in moving the United States toward energy independence.

Instead of empowering the IRS with more audit agents, we should abolish our Byzantine tax code that can make almost anybody out to be a criminal.