FREEDOM LINE BLOG: Image of the Day: Trump Boosted Average 401(k) Accounts, Biden Reduced Them By $…
In a startling visual, our friends at Unleash Prosperity highlight something that has gone underreported…
feed-image _
CFIF on X CFIF on YouTube
Image of the Day: Trump Boosted Average 401(k) Accounts, Biden Reduced Them By $25,000

In a startling visual, our friends at Unleash Prosperity highlight something that has gone underreported to date:  The degree to which Americans' average 401(k) plans have grown during both of President Trump's terms, but fell by $25,000 under Joe Biden in inflation-adjusted terms.  Something to consider when Trump's opponents attempt to claim that Americans suffer an "affordability" crisis under his leadership:

 

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="708"] Your 401(k) Under Trump Versus Biden[/caption]

 …[more]

January 04, 2026 • 10:19 PM
[close]

Liberty Update

CFIFs latest news, commentary and alerts delivered to your inbox.
No to DC Statehood
By David Harsanyi
Friday, March 26 2021
There are numerous principled reasons to oppose D.C. statehood. But, really, no arguments are more applicable than the ones offered by the founders, who created a federal district for the distinct purpose of denying it statehood.  First, because they were concerned about the seat of federal power being controlled by a hostile or intrusive state government. Second, because they knew that if the capital were in a state – much less its own state – the people would vote to grow and accumulate federal power. Both situations were incompatible with the proper separation…
 
Targeting Short-Selling Is Short-Sighted
As we pass the otherwise grim one-year coronavirus pandemic milestone, perhaps the most remarkable bright…
Read more...
China Continues to Show Its Contempt for the U.S.
Last week in Anchorage, Alaska, Chinese diplomats dressed down Secretary of State Antony Blinken and…
Read more...
 
The Democrats' Filibuster Hypocrisy
On April 7, 2017, less than four years ago, a majority of Democrats in the U.S. Senate joined a majority…
Read more...
China Must Come Clean on COVID
If a plane goes down, there has to be an investigation. Otherwise, no one would feel safe flying again.…
Read more...
 
The Hypocrisy of the Filibuster Busters
The effort to undo the Senate's legislative filibuster is an un-American, Constitution-eroding, radical…
Read more...
Biden’s Executive Order Overreach May Not Endure
In a December 2007 Boston Globe interview, Barack Obama alleged that the Bush Administration had habitually…
Read more...
 
Biden's Migrant Blackout
Is there something missing from press coverage of the thousands of unaccompanied children who have illegally…
Read more...
The Border Crisis May Be Coming to Your Kids' School
The Biden administration is scrambling to shelter thousands of unaccompanied minors crossing the southern…
Read more...
 
Biden Prepares to Strip College Students of Due Process Rights
It's worth reminding people that if President Joe Biden were compelled to live by the standards he intends…
Read more...
U.S. Plummets to Lowest Ranking Ever in Annual Index of Economic Freedom
The United States’ economic freedom score is 74.8, making its economy the 20th freest in the 2021…
Read more...
More Commentary...
Notable Quote   
 
"CBS News has made great strides under Bari Weiss, but clearly there remains work to be done. On Monday's 'CBS Evening News,' CBS News Homeland Security and Justice Correspondent Nicole Sganga declared that the video released by DHS shows 'the minutes leading up to the murder of Renee Good.' It is an all-too-familiar pattern in which the mainstream media aligns its reporting with the advocacy of groups…[more]
  
 
— Jonathan Turley, the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University
 
Liberty Poll   

Are you optimistic or pessimistic about the overall state of the country going into the new year?