Dec 8, 2025 ~ 'It Is Not Affordable to Vote Democrat' Jeff Crouere acknowledges that Americans are still feeling affordability pain but argues that it would make no sense to put the people that caused the affordability crisis back in charge. Crouere lists all the economic metrics that were in great shape under Trump 1, then got really bad under Biden. And while there is still work to do, Trump has already improved many things. In less than a year, inflation is down to 3%, gas prices are at multi-year lows, energy is more affordable, eggs and other groceries are lower, no tax on tips passed, tax cuts that Biden was going to let expire are now permanent, cars are becoming more affordable by Trump's rollback of Biden's insane CAFE standards. [Economics, Economy, Politics, Trump Win]
Dec 22, 2025 ~ "‘What No Politician Has Ever Done’: TrumpRx Delivers Historic Price Cuts"
"I negotiated directly with the drug companies in foreign nations to which were taken advantage of our country for many decades to slash prices on drugs and pharmaceuticals by as much as 400 500 and even 600% in other words, your drug costs will be plummeting downward, and I use the threat of tariffs to get foreign countries who would never have done it to pay the cost of this giant dollar reduction. They stopped ripping us off, and it began as of four days ago. There has never been anything like this in the history of our country. Drugs have only gone up, but now they’ll be going down by numbers never conceived possible. It’s called most favored nation, and no president has ever had the courage or ability to get this done until now. The first of these unprecedented price reductions will be available starting in January through a new website, Trumprx.gov, and these big price cuts will greatly reduce the cost of health care." [Drugs, Economics, Economy, Health Care, Tariffs, Trump Win]
Jan 14, 2026 ~ 'The Warmth of Collectivism'
The Socialist mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani literally said "Replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism!" Stossel goes through the many many examples of socialism and collectivism failing every time its been tried in history.
"It's failing now in Cuba, North Korea, Nicaragua and Venezuela. It was tried and abandoned in the Soviet Union, Mongolia, Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Angola, Mozambique, Benin, the Congo, Somalia, Grenada and Cambodia. Even China and Vietnam's leaders, to allow their countries to prosper, felt they had to give up pure socialism and allow private property and capitalism." [Economics, Economy, Socialism]
Feb 21, 2026 ~ 'SCOTUS Knocks Down Trump’s Tariffs'
https://www.dailywire.comw/news/scotus-knocks-down-trumps-tariffsight decision. The International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) was meant to quickly respond to an actual "emergency", not to set indefinite permanent trade policies. Ben Shapiro says, "I urge conservatives to think about this very strongly: If the president of the United States can simply declare a national emergency and then tariff the entire planet, what can’t the federal government do on the basis of an emergency?" [Economics, Economy, SCOTUS, Tariffs, Trade]
Feb 21, 2026 ~ 'Was Climate Change the Greatest Financial Scandal in History?'
"Environmental scholar Bjorn Lomborg recently calculated that across the globe, governments have spent at least $16 trillion feeding the climate change industrial complex. And for what? Arguably, not a single life has been or will be saved by this shameful and colossal misallocation of human resources. The war on safe and abundant fossil fuels has cost countless lives in poor countries and made those countries poorer by blocking affordable energy."
"$16 trillion has been spent -- a lot of people got very, very rich off the government largesse -- but there is not a penny of measurable payoff. But it's much worse than that. In economics there is a concept called opportunity cost: What could we have done with $16 trillion to make the world better off?" [Climate Change, Economics, Economy]
Feb 28, 2026 ~ 'The U.S. Balance-of-Payments Deficit Is Essentially Zero'
Economist Walter Williams explained this many times in the past but here we go again. Trying to address the so called 'trade deficit' with tariffs or otherwise is futile because the real measure is the balance of payments Deficit which is almost always zero. [Economics, Tariffs, Trade]
Mar 22, 2026 ~ 'Kathy Hochul’s Seller’s Remorse'
"Back in 2022, Hochul built upon the work of her predecessor, Andrew Cuomo, in making the case that Republicans were unwelcome in the Empire State. “Just jump on a bus and head down to Florida where you belong, okay,” Hochul said of her gubernatorial opponent, Lee Zeldin, among others. 'Get out of town because you don’t represent our values. You’re not New Yorkers.'"
"Evidently, her audience was paying attention, for, between 2022 and today, around 250,000 New Yorkers did as Hochul asked, and headed down to Florida where they belonged. Given the vehemence with which she issued her order, one might have assumed that this development would have filled the governor with joy. But one would have been wrong. Indeed, far from celebrating the exodus, Hochul now sounds as if she is on the verge of putting together a modern Lewis and Clark Expedition tasked with bringing them back. 'The fact is,' she said this week, 'I need people who are high net worth to support the generous social programs that we want to have in our state.' That being so, she is urging the New Yorkers who stayed to go down to the Sunshine State, rummage around in the homes and gardens of Palm Beach, Naples, and Miami, and 'see who you can bring back home, because our tax base has been eroded.'
"It may not have escaped the notice of New York taxpayers that the state’s budget is twice that of Florida, despite the latter having a larger population. Indeed, Mayor Zohran Mamdani proposes to spend more money in New York City’s local government than the entire Florida budget, and that on top of state spending. Hence, the endless appetite for taxes."
What fools Democrats have been in NY and other Blue states. They wildly over promise far more than they can afford, hoping to tax "the rich" to death to pay for it but the rich predictably leave because they're expected to be slaves. Combine these problems with ridiculous climate policies that Democrats agreed to even though it was obvious they could never work or be afforded and the Blue states are in deep deep trouble. [Climate Change, Debt, Deficit, Economics, Entitlements, Politics, Taxes]
Mar 22, 2026 ~ 'Kathy Hochul: Oops, That Climate Law Was a Mistake...'
Another story where Democrats are panicking because they realize the policies they've pushed on their constituents are unaffordable and unreasonable. This has always been obvious to Republicans.
"One of the worst problems she faces is skyrocketing energy bills, and the prospect that those prices will rise even more and faster in the next few years as climate deadlines rapidly approach."
"To achieve New York's outrageous climate goals, it would "add more than $1.90 to gasoline prices and raise costs for a family with oil heat and a gas vehicle by $3,000 annually." She's already eroded her taxbase by driving a quarter million people (very few poor) out of the state and now those left behind will be drowning in unaffordable energy bills knowing its her party's fault. Not a good time to be a Democrat in NY or other Blue states... [Climate Change, Economics, Energy, Politics, Taxes]
Mar 29, 2026 ~ 'The Equal Pay Hoax Is Dead. Choices Are Women’s Real Empowerment.'
The gender pay gap has been debunked dozens of times even by female economists but Democrats still push the lie. "Each year, particularly under Democratic administrations, policymakers have called for commissions and bills, such as the Paycheck Fairness Act, to be passed. Feminists, activists, and Leftists rallied behind the outdated slogan 'equal pay for equal work' to convince women that they are victims of pay discrimination, as evidenced by the pay gap. At best, these efforts are fruitless. At worst, they unfairly punish employers for differences in pay that are not attributable to sex discrimination but to choices. It’s all been a hoax. The Equal Pay Act outlawed wage discrimination back in 1963. We don’t need a new law. If a woman feels she’s been mistreated by her employer, she can pursue legal remedies—filing a claim with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission." See the rest of the article for the many reasons why there appears to be a gap with the bogus way they measure. [Economics, Fake News, Gender Pay Gap]