Price Controls Are the Worst Possible Solution to Inflation
Addressing a distortion of the market with another distortion of the market will only make the problem worse.
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.
Plus two more topics to howl about...
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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.
During a speech to a conservative group this month, Hawley depicted a decline in masculinity as one of the nation's foremost problems. Really?
Turkey shows the danger of inflation and giving officials free rein to mess with money.
The president should be more worried about inflation, and government responsibility for it, than he's acting.
Warren's claim that oil companies are jacking up prices to turn a bigger profit doesn't stand up to even the slightest scrutiny.
The legislation will have a negative impact on the labor supply and send high prices soaring even higher.
Are normal Americans worried about inflation? Jeong says nope, it's a ginned-up outrage because rich people's "parasitic assets aren’t doing as well as they’d like."
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But also be thankful that Americans have been spared the worst of soaring food costs.
The cost of interest on the national debt will soon be a huge chunk of change.
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A good way to know you’re living through high inflation is when you’re discouraged from talking about it.
The idea that massive government spending, hate speech laws, and gun control will improve America—when they failed horribly elsewhere—is a dangerous myth.
Plus: America's crackdown on Big Tech gives cover to Russia's crackdown on Big Tech, high inflation likely to continue into next year, and more...
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But the people in power won’t even say as much, let alone do something about it.
Profligate government spending supposedly has nothing to do with it.
As inflation increases, we need a low-debt environment.
Monetary policy can't work optimally until we free up the economy in other important ways.
Prices are up all over the economy. Here are scenarios about what might happen next.
Plus: Hong Kong police raid a pro-democracy newspaper, Fed officials change their tune on inflation, and more...
The Wyoming Republican believes bitcoin provides a serious alternative store of value, will spur renewable energy, and just might save the dollar.
A new study finds that as the government expands, the private sector shrinks.
The Commerce Department is planning to hike tariffs on Canadian lumber from about 9 percent to more than 18 percent.
The value of our money may be the latest victim of pandemic-era policy.
The economic aid package paid people not to work. So it's no surprise that many aren't working.
The short-term inflation outlook isn't as grim as it looks, but the long-term situation could be awful
"It's an escape hatch from tyranny," writes the Human Rights Foundation's Alex Gladstein. "It's nothing less than freedom money."
A new round of hyperinflation was taking a heavy toll on daily life, even before the coronavirus hit.
Instead of repealing tariffs that are raising aluminum prices, politicians are instead trying to lower aluminum prices by legislative fiat.
Neither party is serious about reining in spending. This is unsustainable.
The Trump administration may sidestep Congress to get another tax cut passed.
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