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
The Puerto Rican Government Bailout that Only Few Know (and We're Pretty Sure They Don't Want You to Know)
By Thomas Humber
Thursday, May 12 2016
Who knew that the scariest word to official Washington these days isn't ISIS?  It isn't Iran or North Korea or Russia.  It isn't even indictment.  It's “bailout.” We learned that when CFIF ran some television and radio ads and sent around some position papers saying that Congress was about to bail out the Puerto Rican government.  We were very specific on how that was going to happen ... and who was going to pay for it:  those who invested in Puerto Rico's bonds on the promise that they were safe, so safe they were backed by Puerto Rico's constitution (which…
 
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