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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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Recession and the 2024 Campaign
By Byron York
Wednesday, May 03 2023
For more than two years now, Republicans have been predicting that President Joe Biden's big-spending policies will crash the U.S. economy into recession. It hasn't happened yet, although the country did experience two consecutive quarters of negative economic growth – a widely accepted definition of recession – in the first and second quarters of 2022. But the economy climbed back into positive growth territory in the next quarter and has stayed there since. Now, it's struggling. Well, it's always been struggling, but now it is more clearly struggling. The government…
 
Who Turned the Lights Out? Joe Biden
Does the radical climate change agenda know no end? Earlier this year, it was gas stoves – and…
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Media's Gorsuch Hit Continues to Delegitimize SCOTUS
As with ProPublica's recent smear of Clarence Thomas, there's a lot of excitement across the left-wing…
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Amid Record Economic Pessimism, Biden Asks for Six More Years
Two years into a presidency plagued by unprecedented depths of dysfunction, Joe Biden officially asked…
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What You Need to Know About the Debt-Ceiling Debate
If you read news coverage about the brewing battle over raising the debt ceiling, you might think it's…
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Teachers Union Thuggery
If thugs were hurting your kid, you'd do almost anything to stop them. The harm inflicted by the teachers…
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The Hunter Biden Whistleblower
The Justice Department has been investigating President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden for a long time.…
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Real Patriots Cut Taxes, Not Raise Them
On Tax Day this year, about a dozen left-wing millionaires joined with some of the most liberal Democrats…
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Supreme Court Delivers Another Important Win Against Administrative State
"The Commission knows a good deal about competition policy, but nothing special about the separation…
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One Stat Rarely Tells the Story
Government debt as a share of the U.S. economy is falling. This must mean the Biden administration and…
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Regulatory Octopus Is Strangling Our Economy
Every schoolkid knows – or used to know – that the United States has…
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Notable Quote   
 
"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]
 
 
— Joel Kotkin, Presidential Fellow in Urban Futures at Chapman University and Senior Research Fellow at the Civitas Institute
 
Liberty Poll   

Despite Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's reckless personal behavior, should any adult following the strategic importance of international chip wars believe China has not had access for some time?