Inflation is bad, and embracing it is even worse
Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell said the time has come to retire the word “transitory” when it comes to talking about inflation and instead discuss ways to tame rising prices,…
Build Back Better was even more costly thanks to the gimmicks
The Biden administration’s Hail Mary pass – otherwise known as the Build Back Better Act – dropped like a load of bricks over the weekend, when Sen. Joe Manchin announced…
Bloomberg gets behind charter schools
Education was a major issue in the recent Virginia gubernatorial election, as parents who were unhappy with their local schools got behind the Republican nominee and his promise to accelerate…
How to waste a pile of federal education money
The nation’s public schools got more than $100 billion in federal aid to help them safely reopen after the worst of the coronavirus passed. It’s been several months since those…
Ranking freedom in the 50 states
The Cato Institute has released its “Freedom in the 50 States” report that ranks the states on “more than 230 policy variables.” The freest state in the nation: New Hampshire,…
Biden administration threatening to plant the seeds of another housing market collapse
In an ominous sign that parts of the nation’s financial apparatus have totally forgotten the lessons of the 2007-2008 Great Recession, it looks like a mortgage buying binge, all in…
The trillion dollar infrastructure boondoggle will cost much more, and deliver even less
Democrats hoping to avoid a wipeout in the 2022 elections are busy touting the many supposed benefits and virtues of their trillion-dollar infrastructure bill. But as anyone who has followed…
The tariffs and other government distortions embedded in the Biden infrastructure package
The Biden administration’s infrastructure bill is supposed to bring new roads, bridges, fiber optic cable, and much more to a nation supposedly starved for all of it. But as we…
Democrats do like tax breaks…for unions
Congressional Democrats need a lot of new tax revenue to pay for at least a portion of the social spending they wish to pass. But they also have a few…
Federal government keeps racking up more debt
Even as more economic focus is placed on roaring inflation, a familiar, but just as destructive, story on federal spending and debt continues to play in the background: The federal…