However wonderful it is to imagine a world in which these things are possible, the government shouldn’t be shelling out millions to entertain speculation.
No matter how you slice it, no one person or policy is solely to blame for surging inflation.
The White House is making it harder for people to request waivers from cost-increasing Buy America requirements in the $1.2 trillion infrastructure law.
The Restaurant Revitalization Fund Replenishment Act would give restaurants another $42 billion in grants to cover the lingering costs of 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.
If approved by the New York legislature, it would be the biggest public handout in NFL history.
Plus: A "right" to avoid shaming and shunning? A win for private property rights in Tennessee. And more...
From New Jersey to California, state lawmakers are mulling one-off rebates and tax credits to ease the pain of rising prices.
The president is running from his own hefty contributions to record gas prices and inflation.
More evidence that the public health bureaucracy dropped the ball when a once-in-a-generation pandemic hit.
Congress used the COVID-19 pandemic as an excuse to throw money around in ways that would be comedic if the results weren't so tragic.
Few politicians are willing to admit deficit spending is the larger cause.
Lawmakers packed $8 billion of pork into the omnibus bill that passed Congress last night.
Congress continues to allocate funds to produce weapons that the Pentagon itself says it doesn't need.
Democrats hail the new budget agreement as "the largest increase in non-defense discretionary spending in four years" while Republicans tout a big boost in military spending. Everyone wins!
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has barred men aged 18-60 from leaving the country.
Inspiring support for Ukrainian freedom is undermined by the remainder of the president’s agenda.
We must face the reality that the debt does matter.
"If I do my job right, you should barely know I'm here."
The president touted his support of cost-increasing 'Buy America' requirements for American infrastructure projects.
The issue has never been a lack of funds for infrastructure; it's that the money frequently ends up getting spent on something else via a highly politicized decision-making process.
From the CDC to the FDA, there are too many missteps to list.
Child care workers benefit from state subsidies. They’re fighting against possible cuts by encouraging regressive taxes that fuel a new drug war.
Most of the $800 billion Paycheck Protection Program went to business owners, not preserving jobs, according to a new study.
But Washington just keeps hitting the snooze button.
"Obviously we could have used the money, but at what cost?,” says Sheila Hemphill, an activist and lobbyist from Brady, Texas
Nearly half of the $1 billion in RAISE grants awarded by Biden's Department of Transportation have gone to non-transportation projects.
Plus: College students and speech, state-funded pre-K fail, and more...
The Fed may soon get serious about hitting the monetary brakes to slow the economy.
Too Many (Government) Dollars Are Chasing Too Few Goods.
And we would be better citizens if we called him out for it more.
Politicians and cops found creative ways to dodge responsibility in 2021.
Plus: Swearing increased during the pandemic, progressives want to see the Build Back Better agenda enacted by executive fiat, and more...
Plus: The pragmatic approach to omicron is emerging, lumber prices are skyrocketing again, and more...
Deficit spending and debt are out of control, and dragging down the purchasing power of the dollar.
Plus: Airline CEOs push back on masks on airplanes and the Fed prepares to fight inflation.
The senator's opposition to past disaster relief bills has always been on the grounds that congressional budgets should mean something.
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.
You can support pre-K education and affordable child care and worry about climate change while understanding that policymakers need to get out of the way.
Are Medicare's fiscal problems even worse than the headline numbers suggest?
When government does things, most everything costs more and is lower quality.
Putting America's depressing fiscal policy to a beat since 2011!
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