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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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Meet the New Obama, Same as the Old Obama
By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, February 10 2011
It made for quite a spectacle:  President Obama instructing an audience of struggling entrepreneurs and employers to just start hiring and stop conserving their cash.   Gee, why didn’t they think of that?  Barack Obama has never owned a company in his life.  He has never faced bankruptcy for a family business built over decades.  He has never navigated the Byzantine maze of regulations, taxes, lawsuits, insurance costs and other risks that multiply with every new permanent employee.  Yet there he was this week, lecturing a Chamber of Commerce audience…
 
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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?