Democrats hope to press the "affordability" issue in this year's midterm election season, but there'…
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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
GOP Presidential Candidates Need A Refresher Course on Free Markets
By Troy Senik
Thursday, February 09 2012
A little learning is a dangerous thing. Unfortunately, it’s also all that’s required of a professional politician. While stammering, inarticulate candidates tend to have short shelf lives, a political aspirant who manages to recite a crisp bullet point without giving its content much thought can make a career out of the exercise (as testified to by the 2008 election of a president who spun the rhetorical equivalent of cotton candy). The problem is that abstract principles untethered to specific circumstances tend to function more as applause lines than serious roadmaps to how a politician…
 
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Notable Quote   
 
"There was a time when diesel fuel was usually cheaper than gasoline in the United States. That relationship began to change about 20 years ago, and since then diesel has generally traded at a premium. Today, that premium is not just persistent but unusually large, which raises an obvious question: how did we get from gasoline typically costing more than diesel to diesel costing substantially more…[more]
 
 
— Robert Rapier, Chemical Engineer In the Energy Industry
 
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