Inflation for thee, but not for Uncle Sam (or his dependents)
Rising prices – inflation – affects us all. Or does it? For the federal government, inflation is something to measure, but not necessarily to worry about, thanks to automatic adjustments…
The ‘biggest organized fraud heist’ that plundered COVID relief
While portions of official Washington rub their foreheads trying to understand how hundreds of billions of dollars and tens of thousands of lives were wasted in Afghanistan, there’s a reminder…
Playing politics with government retirement funds
One of the federal governments largest assets is the $500 billion or so employees have invested in the Thrift Savings Plan. Worryingly, all that cash sitting in the federal employee…
Punishment of small landlords continues
While the Biden administration’s constitutionally dubious eviction moratorium continues to make its way through the courts, the people left out of the discussion – small landlords – continue to suffer…
About those solar panel tariffs
The story of solar power companies asking the federal government to extend tariffs on foreign solar panels – in the name of national security, among other items – got our…
Inflation is eating wage gains
The economic data flowing out of the federal government continues to paint a troubling picture of inflation, and what it means for American wage earners. In short? Their paychecks aren’t…
Biden bends the knee to OPEC
In his effort to make the nation relive the 1970s, President Joe Biden issued an appeal to OPEC (remember OPEC?) to pump more oil in order to fight rising global…
De-growthers intent on dragging the rest of humanity into a bleak future
Of all the ideas floated to curb the production of greenhouse gasses, one of the starker, and punitive, is the so-called “de-growth movement.” The aim is in the name: require…
Getting beyond vaccine mandate theater
The rapid expansion in the number of coronavirus infections and hospitalizations due to the delta variant has governments and pundits eyeing mask and vaccine mandates. Some businesses are getting in…
Crypto’s hard lesson in official Washington’s ways
The Senate’s trillion-dollar infrastructure bill contains several measures that are supposed to pay for at least a portion of the spending on roads and bridges. Among those items is a…