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Inflation: Comparing Trump and Biden...

Democrats hope to press the "affordability" issue in this year's midterm election season, but there's one potentially glaring problem for them, as illustrated by our friends at Unleash Prosperity...

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August 17, 2026 • 04:40 PM
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October Is National Intellectual Property Month
By Timothy H. Lee
Wednesday, September 30 2026
What single factor most accounts for American Exceptionalism?   To employ a statistical term, why is it that the United States – which is neither the most populous or resource-rich nation on the planet – remains several standard deviations ahead of any other nation in human history in terms of innovation, influence and prosperity?    Our free-market economic principles, while admirable and worthy of preservation, don’t explain it.  This may come as a surprise to many people, but today the U.S. actually trails even supposedly “socialist” nations…
 
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