FREEDOM LINE BLOG: Inflation: Comparing Trump and Biden...
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... Biden Versus Trump on Inflation

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August 17, 2026 • 04:40 PM
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The deceptively named Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), created via the even more broadly defective Dodd-Frank Act of 2010, stands as a monument to the dangers of government excess and counterproductive intervention into our market economy.   Its checkered record of restriction by our judicial system testifies to that fact.   Poor regulatory implementation during the Biden Administration only amplified its defects.  Specifically, an otherwise obscure provision of Dodd-Frank titled Section 1033 illustrates that problem perfectly.   Fortunately, an…
 
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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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