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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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Is Biden’s 'Success' Our Mess?
By Victor Davis Hanson
Thursday, May 19 2022
If an administration deliberately wished to cause havoc on the border, to ensure fuel was nearly unaffordable, to create a crime wave, to spark 1970s hyperinflation, and to rekindle racial tensions, what would it have done differently than what President Joe Biden has done? So is Biden malicious, incompetent, or a wannabe left-wing ideologue? When pressed about inflation and fuel price hikes, Biden either blames someone or something else, gets mad at the questioner, or claims former President Donald Trump did it. His administration apparently believes things are going well and according to plan.…
 
What If Democrats Had Made The Economy Even Worse?
President Biden likes to blame inflation on the COVID pandemic and the war in Ukraine – or…
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2022 Index of Economic Freedom: Biden Drags U.S. to All-Time Low of 25th
In today’s polarized culture, debate is characterized more often by normative subjectivity than…
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Imagine the Unimaginable
Americans are now entering uncharted, revolutionary territory. They may witness things over the next…
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Biden's Food-flation
Going food shopping feels like getting punched in the gut. You pick up a whole roasting chicken, hoping…
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Hunter Biden's $2 Million 'Sugar Brother'
One of the mysteries of the Hunter Biden matter is how the president's son, with no obvious sources of…
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WTO Targets U.S. Drug Patents, and the Biden Administration Plots Surrender
Intellectual property (IP) rights – patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets – have…
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Losing the People? Then Change the Rules
Court packing – the attempt to enlarge the size of the Supreme Court for short-term political…
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Biden Says Kids Belong to Their Teachers
Schools are becoming indoctrination factories, trying to turn children against their country and their…
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Crony Capitalists Propose a Carbon Tax to … Reduce Energy Costs?
Remember when Joe Biden pitched his "Build Back Better" boondoggle?   He insisted…
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Biden's Ministry of Truth
A federal speech czar? Just as the Founders imagined it, no doubt. Earlier this week, Department of…
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Notable Quote   
 
"The Doomsday Clock, last adjusted in January, has not since moved any closer to forecasting global catastrophe. But media headlines over the course of 2026 have moved in that direction and are suggestive that midnight is drawing nearer.Silicon Valley companies, including Anthropic, OpenAI, and xAI, are warning that artificial intelligence -- renamed 'super intelligence' by President Trump's…[more]
 
 
— Mark Toth and Jonathan Sweet, Co-Founders of INTREP360
 
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