Biden's Plan for Reducing Inflation Will Actually Make It Worse
The president's argument is amazing for its tone-deafness, inconsistent thinking, and sheer economic ignorance.
The president's argument is amazing for its tone-deafness, inconsistent thinking, and sheer economic ignorance.
Attacking big firms just for being big could drive up prices.
Inflation damages the economy while doing the greatest harm to the most vulnerable.
Biden's three-point plan to tackle inflation is really a one-point plan: Let the Federal Reserve handle this mess.
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Democrats are trying to inject a political solution into an economic problem.
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No matter how you slice it, no one person or policy is solely to blame for surging inflation.
The current run of price and wage increases could tip taxpayers into higher brackets, where they will owe larger slices of their income to the government.
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Four economists at the Federal Reserve say America's high rate of inflation relative to the rest of the world is the result of surging disposable income during the pandemic.
Certain politicians would do well to learn that inflation is not caused by corporate "greed."
The president's $5.8 trillion budget shows he wants more of the same government spending that is already sending prices through the roof.
Some want to solve the problem with subsidies for gas, housing, child care, and more. That only risks greater stagnation.
Joe Manchin keeps saying out loud the part that Joe Biden would rather keep quiet.
In the 1980s, the Reagan administration made changes to the Davis-Bacon Act to help control inflation. The Labor Department is planning to undo them.
The president is running from his own hefty contributions to record gas prices and inflation.
With inflation running above 7 percent, we are experiencing the strongest price pressures in nearly 40 years.
The White House's latest attempt to scapegoat rising prices ignores everything that happened before the past three weeks.
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We were told it would be "transitory." But inflation continued to rise.
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The idea would benefit central planners and grow the ranks of bureaucrats while making the poor even poorer.
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