The desperate attempts by the White House, congressional Democrats, and the corporate media to refocus voter attention on abortion rather than inflation are failing. Most reputable polls show that the electorate is far more concerned about mismanagement of the economy…
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) showed an annual rise of 8.3 percent in August. The disheartening Bureau of Labor Statistics report arrived at an inconvenient time for the Biden administration. Despite knowing in advance that the bureau planned to release…
The dubiously named Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), a smorgasbord of energy subsidies, health-care policy changes, and tax reform measures, passed to laudatory acclaim from a broad Democratic and centrist coalition in August. One faction that was understandably mum, however, was…
If you had any doubts that those in power have dropped the pretense of fighting for the working class, you can dispense with them after the Biden administration’s latest concessions to the laptop class. From student loan forgiveness to subsidies…
Over the past 50 years, the United States has been moving from a high-trust society to a low-trust society, a trend with really bad effects on social cohesion. The federal government’s actions are a major cause of that decline. So…
You know the old joke: How can you tell when a politician is lying? When his/her lips are moving. That extreme cynicism about politicians — especially Democrats — is reinforced by the recent passage of the so-called Inflation Reduction Act…
Another week, another reminder that heavy-handed government industrial policy is in fashion. Nobel Prize-winning economist Michael Spence recently endorsed it as embodied in the newly passed CHIPS legislation, an attempt to bolster America’s semiconductor industry. The endorsement, like so many,…
There are a few Senate Republicans who’ve been bold enough, in the aftermath of the weekend’s disastrous passage in that body of the Orwellian-titled Inflation Reduction Act, to have taken a poke at the current minority leader, Mitch McConnell. Most…
