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MACDONALD: You’re Paying A Lot So They Can Claim to Save You Money

July 29, 2026 Steve MacDonald

Vermont has a statutory fee on its electric rates that funnels money into something called Efficiency Vermont. It takes tens of millions of dollars out of the economy every year with the goal of using it on things that will ultimately reduce consumption and save more than that cost. The government decided that Vermonters were … Read more

MACDONALD: The Big Green Mousetrap

January 29, 2026December 13, 2025 Steve MacDonald

After years of necessarily making everything cost more, hating on fossil fuels, has the net-zero green agenda trap just caught the Left’s new “affordability” narrative mouse by the nose? Always in motion is the future. Wise words from Yoda, but we could just as easily say, always emotion, is the future. It isn’t easy to … Read more

MACDONALD: The Cost of Thanksgiving Is Down This Year

November 12, 2025November 12, 2025 Steve MacDonald

Breaking things is always easier than fixing them, and whoever was running the Biden Administration broke things. A lot of things. As bad or worse than Obama, who, if you recall, insisted his laggard low-T economy was the new normal. Donald Trump blew that lie up in less than two years. This time around, Bidneflation … Read more

Klar: Drug Price Executive Order Unleashes Unlikely Critics

May 29, 2025 John Klar

Is it only bad when Trump does it? President Donald Trump issued an executive order (EO) yesterday, May 12, designed to reduce drug prices for American patients and taxpayers alike. The move is a moderate effort to work amicably with pharmaceutical companies to cut taxpayer costs for Medicare and Medicaid, shave price gouging by middlemen, … Read more

Can You Tell Which Marketplace Has the Most Interference from Government?

October 11, 2023 Skip

When the government meddles, things get messed up. The market – whichever it is – no longer works correctly, nor can it – and as you can see in the chart below, it is you that pays the price, typically in two directions.

Skip’s Sauntering Snippets# 6-Gas Prices, Shortages, and what’s the Obama/Biden End Game?

May 22, 2022 Skip

Why is gasoline so high? Who is doing the manipulations behind the scenes and then decrying there’s nothing they can do? What IS the end game that they are trying for? Hint: The Obama retreads that now staff President Asterisk’s Administration knew what was to happen even as Biden was campaigning from his basement. Yep, … Read more

Joe Biden This is what happens when you order a president through the mail

Check Out Joe Biden’s CPI Flexible Price Index Hockey Stick

April 20, 2022 Steve MacDonald

Marxism fails because even in a free market, experts can’t predict what will happen. There are too many moving parts in the US Economy, including the changing needs or whims of the 330 million Americans. But Marxists will be Marxists.

German Ag Minister want higher food prices for Germans Appreciate them Instapundit

What is He, the Food Czar?

January 2, 2022 Skip

I see this a lot at Treehugger. Heck, I’ve seen American Elites say this as well. “Well, you’d ENJOY it more if you had to pay more for it!” At least with the Eco-Socialists, they want you to eat LESS food (like Oezdemir) so you hurt GAIA (the planet) less – you selfish nothing of a person!

Joe Biden Corn Maze - Image Credit Reddit

A Reader’s Rant On What Only Took 9 Months to “Accomplish”

October 13, 2021 Op-Ed

I hope all you Democrats and NeverTrumpers who voted for Dunce Biden are happy with your choice. Food shortages, food prices spike, gas prices spike, electricity prices spike, brown outs coming, blackouts coming, face mask mandates, vaccine mandates, house prices skyrocketing.

Palate Cleanser: And You Thought You Knew How Fast Food Prices Were Going Up?

July 5, 2021 Skip

Yeah, stuff at the store is getting more expensive but THIS is a bit nuts. Yeah, every week, I go looking for a $6,100 burger….er, no.

Notable Quote – more “wise” men than this high school student need “wising up”

August 4, 2020 Skip

There are many newly “upraised” Bernie-Bro Socialists in positions of power that believe they can easily manage and control entire economies without the use of Totalitarianism.

Notable Quote – a warning to the NH GOFFER Commission

April 25, 2020April 25, 2020 Skip

…which has been tasked on “restarting” the NH economy by “planning” how to “reopen” our economy. George Will: Markets produce many things secondarily, from shoes to trucks to novels, but primarily they produce information, in torrents that no government is intelligent enough to comprehend or nimble enough to respond to. Sure, Government can infringe, hinder, … Read more

Notable Quote – George Will

April 4, 2020April 4, 2020 Skip

[Welfare] states presuppose economic dynamism sufficient to generate investments, job creation, corporate profits, and individuals’ incomes from which come tax revenues needed to fund entitlements. But welfare states produce in citizens an entitlement mentality and a low pain threshold. That mentality inflames appetites for more entitlements, broadly construed to include all government benefits and protections … Read more

Another TDS Oil-Price Spike Threat – One Percent. Price Spike? Seriously?

December 27, 2019 Steve MacDonald

I frequent a small number of energy sites and blogs, some of whose writers or editors have allowed Trump Derangement Syndrome to filter their content. Put another way; they get a lot wrong. Like the unavoidable 2018 recession. Sure. And hey, we have another oil price spike.

Summer Lovin’ Happened so Fa-ast – Oil Prices Dropping, But Can it La-ah-ast?

June 12, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Last summer the price of oil did something it does around Memorial Day. It spiked. Democrats declared doom for the economy, and it was President Trump’s fault.

NYC Complains About Menu Prices After Minimum Wage Hits 15.00/Hour (Coming Soon to NH?)

January 30, 2019 Steve MacDonald

We’ve been reporting periodically on New York Cities Fright for Fifteen. That’s the by-product of the fight for fifteen. An arbitrary Left-Wing wage hike that prices low-skilled labor our of jobs, employers out of business, and customers out of restaurants. The Big Crapple just hit the magic numbers (15.00/hour) and guess what?