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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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As 2017 Begins, Broadcasters Exploit Outdated Federal Law to Impose Blackouts on Pay TV Consumers
By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, January 05 2017
In so many ways, America begins 2017 on a very high note.  Since the election, stock markets have ascended to new record highs.  Gallup reports that Americans enter the new year with "higher confidence in the U.S. economy than they have expressed at any other point since 2008," and that U.S. investor optimism "rose further in the fourth quarter to its highest point since January 2007."  Rasmussen similarly reports that the number of those who "think that the country is heading in the right direction" has jolted upward since November.  The prospect…
 
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