Tax Day Is Here, Because Government Bungling Won't Pay for Itself
If you resent government incompetence and malice, maybe your devalued dollars will buy less of it.
If you resent government incompetence and malice, maybe your devalued dollars will buy less of it.
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Fuel retailers could face fines of $500 for failing to place signs on their pumps informing customers of the delayed implementation of the 2.2-cent increase in the state's gas tax.
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.
Plus, the editors talk about alternative strategies to deal with Russia.
Few politicians are willing to admit deficit spending is the larger cause.
Among his other crimes, Putin’s war increases the suffering of the world’s poor and hungry.
We must face the reality that the debt does matter.
"If I do my job right, you should barely know I'm here."
Biden says reducing prices is his "top priority" but his economic agenda suggests the opposite.
From the CDC to the FDA, there are too many missteps to list.
We were told it would be "transitory." But inflation continued to rise.
A federal gasoline tax holiday would undermine the user fee system for funding highways and could worsen inflation.
The idea would benefit central planners and grow the ranks of bureaucrats while making the poor even poorer.
"Greed is constant. If it's greed, how do we explain prices falling?"
But Washington just keeps hitting the snooze button.
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Price controls almost never achieve their goal, but Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has decided to utilize them anyway.
The Massachusetts senator advocated breaking up major grocery retailers with antitrust laws.
The Fed may soon get serious about hitting the monetary brakes to slow the economy.
The president can't fix a problem he doesn't understand.
According to a recent poll, only 22 percent of people believe that the current state of the economy is "good" or "excellent."
Politicians point to corporate concentration they created to divert us from inflation they caused.
Addressing a distortion of the market with another distortion of the market will only make the problem worse.
Bad policy and unpredictable nature are sending food prices through the roof.
A one percentage point increase in interest rates translates into a $30 trillion increase in interest costs on the national debt.
Too Many (Government) Dollars Are Chasing Too Few Goods.
It sucked for avoidable reasons.
Politicians and cops found creative ways to dodge responsibility in 2021.
Deficit spending and debt are out of control, and dragging down the purchasing power of the dollar.
America needs to get its fiscal house in order.
Is America's meat processing industry making huge profits by "jacking up prices" during a pandemic, or does it need government assistance? Both, according to the Biden administration.
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High inflation can harm low-income families. Immigration, not so much.
Trump's tariffs are adding an estimated 0.5 percent to annual inflation.
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Economists predicted that we'd see 575,000 new jobs in November. A new Bureau of Labor Statistics report says only 210,000 were created.
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