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
A Villainous Blueprint for Managed Poverty
By Veronique de Rugy
Thursday, June 11 2026
Writer and philosopher Ayn Rand was often accused of inventing cartoonish villains. Rogues like Ellsworth Toohey in "The Fountainhead" would scheme to seize the global economy's commanding heights in pursuit of a distorted sense of justice. But the people who hold such ideas don't just appear in cartoons or in Rand's novels. Enter Thomas Piketty and company. In early June, Piketty – the French economist whose work on inequality has made him something of a rock star even while being serially challenged for methodological errors, data imputations and cherry-picked baselines – and…
 
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"Which state has the highest retail tire prices in the country? It's not a data point that anyone, as far as we know, compiles, but artificial intelligence suggests that it's California. What we can be sure about, though, is that in about three years, California drivers will be paying more for tires than they are today.Significantly more.It won't happen because the tire makers and retailers will suddenly…[more]
 
 
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