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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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2019 Index of Economic Freedom: America Finally Regains Its Footing
By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, January 31 2019
After a decade of decline, the United States is finally enjoying a renaissance in economic freedom.  So says the just-released 2019 edition of the Heritage Foundation’s annual Index of Economic Freedom, which for twenty-five years has ranked the world’s nations in terms of property rights, rule of law, taxes, government spending, regulatory burden and market openness.  For anyone still wondering why America’s economy has accelerated while economies like China’s, Europe’s and much of the globe’s continue to stall, look no further.  As the Index…
 
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"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]
  
 
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