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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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Remember the Lessons of Biden’s Disastrous Presidency
By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, January 16 2025
This week marks the milestone end of the Biden/Harris administration, and for beleaguered Americans and our friends across the world, it arrives not a moment too soon.   As we dust our shoes of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and welcome Donald Trump’s return, that milestone offers an important opportunity to assess the lessons of the past four years in order to correct course and avoid repeating them in future administrations.   Although history doesn’t always repeat itself, it often rhymes.  Accordingly, future years will offer presidents and voters similar…
 
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Why Javier Milei Matters
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Trump's Real Punishment
President-elect Donald Trump was sentenced last week in the bookkeeping case brought against him by Alvin…
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“Net Neutrality” Suffers Fatal Blow in Court
Nothing symbolizes the outgoing Biden administration’s big-government incompetence, arrogance,…
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Where Did All the Fascism Talk Go?
On Monday, journalist Glenn Greenwald asked on X, "Is there a single person in DC or media acting…
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Why America Is in So Much Trouble
Shortly before Milton Friedman's death in 2006, I had the privilege of interviewing him over dinner in…
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Thinking Big as Trump, Congress Tackle Taxes
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Notable Quote   
 
"As last week's midterms demonstrated, young people appear poised to drive American politics, and particularly the Democratic Party, further to the left. This is particularly true in big cities. New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani was elected last year with crucial support from younger voters, while in Los Angeles, preelection surveys showed democratic socialist (and now Mayor-elect) Nithya Raman leading…[more]
 
 
— Joel Kotkin, Presidential Fellow in Urban Futures at Chapman University and Senior Research Fellow at the Civitas Institute
 
Liberty Poll   

Despite Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's reckless personal behavior, should any adult following the strategic importance of international chip wars believe China has not had access for some time?