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.

On March 5, eight Senate Democrats joined all 50 Senate Rebublicans to REJECT an amendment that would rais the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour over the next few years. The $15 minimum wage would kill jobs in many places in the country, the eight Senate Democrats reasoned and there was data to back them up.

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.

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.

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.

‘Every hospitality owner I know is suffering. We just cannot find workers at all,’ restaurateur Robert Mahon told the Daily Mail.

COVID policy has mutated into a psychosis — one that ignores the reality that risk can be mitigated, but not eliminated.

Ed Bastian made $17 million in 2019 as a chief executive officer of Delta Airlines, Georgia’s largest employer. Bastian just blasted Georgia’s new voting law.

We knew President Joe Biden wanted to raise U.S. corporate tax rates. We didn’t know he wanted to raise them across the world. But Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has now revealed that goal—a “minimum global corporate tax rate.”

When everything’s infrastructure, nothing is. As it turns out, a huge chunk of President Joe Biden’s infrastructure plan doesn’t have much to do with infrastructure.