FREEDOM LINE BLOG: Inflation: Comparing Trump and Biden...
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...

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="668"] Biden Versus Trump on Inflation[/caption]

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2013 Index of Economic Freedom: U.S. Declines for Fifth Straight Year
By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, January 17 2013
This week, The Wall Street Journal and the Heritage Foundation released their annual Index of Economic Freedom.  Alarmingly, the United States has regressed for a fifth consecutive year.  Using a 0 – 100 scale, the Index cumulatively measures four categories:  respect for rule of law, limited government, regulatory efficiency and open markets.  In turn, the Index has established for 19 years the clear statistical correlation between economic freedom and human prosperity.  To illustrate, per capita wealth in the five freest nations (Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia…
 
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"Seven years ago, I warned that Democrats were 'courting disaster' by turning their frustration with the Supreme Court into a campaign to remake it. Their 2020 presidential field was talking about adding justices, limiting their terms, and otherwise changing the rules because Donald Trump had gotten to replace Antonin Scalia and Anthony Kennedy. The Democrats' flirtation with blowing up the high court…[more]
  
 
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Liberty Poll   

Although Canada ultimately has much more to lose than the U.S. and does play fast and loose on some trade issues, given all other current concerns, is this the time to escalate a tariff war?