FREEDOM LINE BLOG: Inflation: Comparing Trump and Biden...
Democrats hope to press the "affordability" issue in this year's midterm election season, but there'…
feed-image _
CFIF on X CFIF on YouTube
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

 …[more]

August 17, 2026 • 04:40 PM
[close]
CFIF’s latest news, commentary and alerts delivered to your inbox.
Sign Up
From London's Tennis Courts to California, Aggressive Taxes Always Disappoint
By Veronique de Rugy
Thursday, June 25 2026
Last week, nearly every elite men's tennis player skipped one of London's marquee tournaments. Only one of the world's top 10 showed up at Queen's Club, the traditional Wimbledon warmup; stars including Alexander Zverev, Daniil Medvedev, Taylor Fritz and Ben Shelton were playing 300 miles away in Halle, Germany. A culprit was likely Britain's tax code, which doesn't stop at taxing prize money earned on British soil. It also taxes a slice of a player's global endorsement income, prorated by how many days of the year they happen to spend in the UK. Fail to advance far enough in the tournament, and…
 
Will China Ever Be Held Accountable for COVID-19?
Kudos to the Trump administration and Sen. Rand Paul for persevering in holding Dr. Anthony Fauci's feet…
Read more...
Republicans Hang On
By a number of conventional measures, the Republican Party should be headed for a huge loss in this November's…
Read more...
 
Democrats Declare War on School Choice
Why are Democrats and their teachers union masters trying to shoot down parental choice in education…
Read more...
The 'Debate' Over Global Poverty Continues
The new "Global Justice Report" by the World Inequality Lab in France – which…
Read more...
 
Time for Merit Immigration
Swiss voters went to the polls Sunday and resoundingly rejected capping the country's rapidly growing…
Read more...
The Great Escape – Let Young Workers Out of Social Security
What cruel irony that we learned last week that Social Security is going broke even sooner than we thought.…
Read more...
 
By Threatening Patent Rights, Three Congressional Proposals Would Risk American Lives
If Congress set out to deliberately jeopardize American lives and well-being, it could hardly devise…
Read more...
Iran Deal Renews Question: Was This War Necessary?
It is perhaps the most fundamental question of the Iran war. If the goal of the war was to prevent Iran…
Read more...
 
Even Without His Controversies, Graham Platner Is Just a Lightweight Extremist
Set aside, for a moment, that Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner spent years with a Nazi SS Totenkopf…
Read more...
Democrats Nominate Nazi to Battle Imaginary Republican Nazis
Political irony in the year 2026 just became almost too rich to parody.   This week, Democrats…
Read more...
More Commentary...
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?