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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... Biden Versus Trump on Inflation

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August 17, 2026 • 04:40 PM
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Britain's Socialist Catastrophe Offers Preview for American Voters
By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, October 15 2026
Whenever confronted with socialism’s uninterrupted history of failure, its stubborn defenders often deny that it has ever been tried.   Even accepting that purist denial for the sake of argument, however, another real-world reality remains just as inescapable.   Namely, the further a nation moves toward socialism on the ideological continuum, the more dismal its economic performance.   If that misery arrives with each additional step toward socialism, what suggests that reaching a pure form of socialism would somehow produce sudden prosperity?  …
 
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