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Harris Campaign Raised $1.2 Billion

by Ray Cardello

The Kamala Harris campaign raised a record $1.2 billion in contributions. The Democrats will tell you that most donations are five or ten dollars. But to raise over one billion dollars for a 100-day campaign, anyone with a brain knows the millionaires and billionaires on both coasts had their pens flying across their checkbooks. The … Read more

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No Central Bank Wants to Stop Price Inflation

by Daniel Lacalle

Many citizens want more government control of the economy to curb rising prices. It is the worst strategy imaginable. Interventionist governments never reduce consumer prices because they benefit from inflation, dissolving their political spending commitments in a constantly depreciated currency. Inflation is the perfect hidden tax. The government makes the currency less valuable by issuing more units … Read more

Taxing Unrealized Capital Gains and an Inflation Nexus

by John Klar

Among the various new taxes proposed by Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign are increased levies on capital gains and taxation of unrealized capital gains on wealthy Americans. Given recent history, this is particularly sneaky. The Biden-Harris team sparked rapid inflation, so now the Harris-Waltz duo wants to tax the phantom inflationary gain even before citizens holding … Read more

The Fed’s Fiat Money Is the Real Cause of Price Inflation

by Tom Mullen

During election years, incumbent presidents are routinely blamed for every societal ill during the previous four years. And almost nothing is riper for the picking than a significant rise in consumer prices. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), prices are currently increasing at a rate of 3 percent year over year and peaked … Read more

Are Democrats Seeding Higher Inflation to Boost Election Prospects?

by John Klar

Human dreams of predicting the future have a special playground in forecasts of market prices. Whether the market is tulips, pork bellies, stocks, real estate, or cryptocurrency, the urge to know the future direction of the economy is as ancient as bartering. A question facing Americans in 2024 is whether that desire to influence the … Read more

Republican Platform Ignores Real Causes of Inflation

by Op-Ed

The 2024 Republican platform promises that, if Donald Trump returns to the White House and Republicans gain complete control of Congress, they will reduce inflation. The platform contains some proposals, such as reducing regulations and extending the 2017 tax reductions, that may help lower prices in some sectors and spur economic growth. However, the GOP … Read more

NH Poverty and Food Insecurity Research Misses The Mark

by Steve MacDonald

I’ve never been overly fond of the New Hampshire Fiscal Policy Institute’s (NHFPI) research, but sometimes, you find a helpful nugget. Take this February 2024 report on “Poverty and Food Insecurity in New Hampshire During and Following the COVID-19 Crisis.” It is a lot of words and charts divining who is having trouble living comfortably … Read more

Are You Doing Better Under Biden or Was It Better Under Trump?

by Skip

Inflation is the hidden tax placed upon us all by the Government. They pay their debts (OUR debts, technically) with cheaper money while OUR expenses go way up. For instance:

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I Do Not Feel Trump’s Conviction Like I Do Biden’s Inflation

by Ray Cardello

For the most part, politicians are very flawed individuals. The money and power of the political system are too enticing for many of these people to resist, and the longer they are in the game, the larger the temptation. That is a solid reason for term limits, but that is the topic for another day.

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Night Cap: Social Justice Inflation — Is that the plan?

by John Klar

This is an older article, reprinted here because it is even more relevant that in 2021. But also, when people “forecast” the future — whether meteorologists, fortune-tellers, stockbrokers, or lawyers drafting contracts, the proof is in the pudding: were they accurate?

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Inflation Nation: Will America’s Economic Woes Worsen in 2024?

by John Klar

In his State of the Union address, President Joe Biden claimed US inflation is a result of price-gouging by corporate bogeymen. Recent statistics suggest other causes, some of which will likely persist through this election year – and the president’s narrative is not likely to hold up as rents, wages, and taxes rise, all increases that are hard to blame on corporate America.

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ICYMI – Why Food Is About To Get Very Expensive

by John Klar

Americans are witnessing frighteningly high rates of inflation—gasoline prices have increased by 10 cents a day lately, it seems. Interest rates are rising and set to continue shooting up, compounding home affordability hampered by a seismic spike in home and land prices.

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Night Cap: Shrink-Flating Biden’s ‘Greed-Flation’

by Steve MacDonald

Rumor has it that mindless Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech will include a new deflection from his complicity in the shitshow that is the American economy. The guy who swore to end fossil fuels (no matter what…it would do to the economy) appears ready to blame greed for what ails us.

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Biden Administration Blames Putin For US Inflation

by John Klar

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre recently blamed Russian President Vladimir Putin for inflation in the US. Much like blaming the border crisis on Republicans despite years of Trump wrangling to “Build That Wall,” this effort to project American inflation onto Putin’s shoulders rings hollow.

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I Tried Wiping Out All Student Debt

by Ray Cardello

In spite of all MAGA resistance, Joe Biden continues to cancel student debt in spite of the fact that the United States Supreme Court ruled that Joe Biden could not forgive student loans. Biden continues to find the money to bribe students and buy millions of votes. Joe Biden is shameless in securing one of the few remaining blocks of voters he has not lost.

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Joe, Please Stop Telling Us The Economy Is Great

by Ray Cardello

Maybe it’s me. Perhaps we have first to define great. From Joe Biden down to Sandy Cortez, the entire left tries their damndest to convince the country the economy is booming, and we ignorant people of the land don’t understand it.

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Night Cap: Food Inflation for 2024 – Understanding the Government’s Shell Game

by John Klar

A meme recently raised eyebrows by comparing the cost of groceries purchased for twenty dollars in 1990’s Home Alone movie by child actor Macaulay Culkin with what that basket of goods would cost today. US food inflation has spiked in recent years, exacerbated by the COVID pandemic and substantial federal spending.

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Friday Meme Overflow

by NITZAKHON

As promised on Wednesday, I have an overflow.

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Night Cap: Biden, Media Gaslight People about Inflation

by Op-Ed

President Biden recently repeated the claim that high prices are caused by greedy businesses. Biden is not alone in trying to gaslight the people into thinking price inflation is rooted in the actions of private individuals and not the fiat money system Americans have lived under since 1971.

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The UniParty’s War On The Middle Class

by Ed Mosca

CBS News recently reported that inflation under Biden has cost the average American family over $11 thousand per year. Rest assured, that figure is understated because it is based on “government data.” The tweet below links to the CBS article.

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