When all else fails, blame price gougers
Call it a sign that the Biden administration is desperate to change the narrative on rising gas prices, or call it economic illiteracy, either way, the president’s demand that the…
Biden’s union-only EV push
The big social spending bill Congress is debating has a long list of potential winners and losers – if we assume “winning” includes getting a massive federal subsidy. Subsidies for…
Build Back Better is a recipe for making everything worse
The Tax Foundation has run the numbers on the proposed Build Back Better spending plan and found it won’t necessarily do any of those things. In fact, it may harm…
Biden’s commissar of the currency
The Biden administration has gone to great lengths to placate progressives who view the market economy with fear and loathing. But his designee for the office of Comptroller of the…
Cowen: Is Biden’s spending plan a good idea?
While official Washington tries to sort out just how much borrowed money to spend on more government, George Mason University economist Tyler Cowen wonder why there hasn’t been more debate…
Biden invests in moral hazard
The Biden administration has issued an executive order extending the forbearance of student loan payments through January 2022. That means those who have student loans will not be required to…
The ‘humiliating coda’ to America’s longest war
One of Joe Biden’s selling points during the 2020 presidential campaign was how his decades of foreign policy experience would renew America’s standing in the world. Events of recent days…
The eviction moratorium extension heads to court
With the Biden administration’s constitutionally dubious extension of a nationwide eviction moratorium comes the inevitable lawsuit seeking to overturn it: Landlords filed a legal challenge to President Joe Biden’s extension…
George McGovern’s business lesson for Joe Biden
While Joe Biden frets that there may not be enough competition and government needs to ride to the rescue, there are examples of politicians more liberal than Biden who eventually…
The long march to end forever wars
President Joe Biden is back to bombing parts of the Middle East — Syria, this time — continuing a decades-long, bipartisan tradition of American presidents lobbing explosives, and much more,…