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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 ~ 'Breitbart Business Digest: Latest Inflation Report Vindicates Trump, Embarrasses His Critics'   Inflation tumbles To 2.7%, much better than expected; Core inflation falls to lowest since early 2021, 2.6%. Trump gets the economy on track in record time. [Economics, Economy, 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 1, 2026 ~ 'Stossel Exposes the Five Biggest Lies of Socialistic Slavery'   Good article. John Stossel doing what he does best. Exposing common lies and myths such as "Socialism works in Scandinavia" and "Socialism is completely different from fascism." [Economics, John Stossel, Socialism]
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]
Feb 28, 2026 ~ 'Mamdani and AOC Announce Free Child Care for Illegal Aliens'   FFS, NYC is going bankrupt at record speed since the socialists have taken over. Spending is up, the taxpayer base is fleeing and the deficit is massive. So why not introduce not JUST free child care but free child care for ILLEGAL ALIENS? What clowns! [Debt, Deficit, Economics, Economy, Illegal Immigration, Socialism]
Mar 14, 2026 ~ 'Starbucks Founder Howard Schultz Is Latest Billionaire To Move To Florida'   These idiotic blue states want to fund raise off the backs of billionaires but keep chasing their billionaires away to red states by raising taxes to such ridiculous levels. Self defeating. [Economics, Politics, Taxes]
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]
Apr 19, 2026 ~ 'Remember Egg Prices?'   Republicans campaigned on crazy high egg prices and Democrats made fun of them 3 months after Trump's inauguration for not bringing them down in that unreasonably short amount of time. Well guess what, "Egg Prices have now collapsed by more than 97% from their March 2025 all-time high and are now trading at the lowest price in over a decade." Democrats are awfully silent on the issue now... [Economics, Economy, Politics, Trump Win]
Apr 19, 2026 ~ 'The Quiet Carnage of California's Minimum Wage Hikes Obsession Continues'   "For businesses like Pizza Hut, that meant their delivery drivers now fell into the $20/hr employee bracket, too. For many of those drivers, this law meant they were the first to receive pink slips, and almost immediately, as businesses scrambled to find savings ahead of the law coming into effect."   “New data from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics was released Thursday, revealing a staggering 36,565 fast food jobs have been lost since September 2023 when the $20 per hour minimum wage law, AB 1228, was signed into law... Our median estimate translates into a loss of 18,000 jobs in California’s fast food sector relative to the counterfactual.”   "The report found that none of the members believe Los Angeles is a favorable environment to make investments and 80% said that the city is not a good place for long-term hotel investment... The AHLA previously commissioned another study that found hotels have eliminated or expect to eliminate 6% of positions, roughly 650 jobs, since the Hotel Worker Minimum Wage Ordinance took effect in September." [California, Economics, Minimum Wage]
Apr 26, 2026 ~ 'Trump's Masterstroke in China's Backyard: The Philippines AI Trade Zone'   "The April 16, 2026 announcement of a 4,000-acre Economic Security Zone inside the Philippines' Luzon Economic Corridor passed largely without notice in the general press. That gap between the significance of the announcement and the attention it received is worth closing. The United States and the Philippines are establishing the first AI-native Industrial Acceleration Hub under the Pax Silica initiative — a purpose-built allied manufacturing node designed to convert Philippine mineral endowments into Western supply chain inputs, operated by American private capital, under American-style contract certainty. It is, in its institutional design, a model for how allied economic statecraft should work."   "The structural problems the zone addresses is well documented. China controls the refining of more than 70% of 19 out of 20 of the world's most important strategic minerals, and its rare earth magnet production share stands at approximately 94%. This is not merely an economic imbalance; it is a geopolitical instrument. In April 2025, Beijing imposed export controls on seven rare earth elements in retaliation for U.S. tariffs."   "The Philippines offers a natural corrective position. It holds significant reserves of nickel, copper, chromite, and cobalt — the minerals that power batteries, semiconductors, advanced electronics, and modern defense platforms... For two decades, the United States watched Beijing construct a near-monopoly over the physical inputs that modern economies require. This zone is the correct structural answer: market-led, ally-governed, self-funded, and designed to persist beyond any single administration. American manufacturing just secured a serious foothold in Luzon. The right policy response is to build on it systematically." [China, Economics, Economy, Trade, Trump Win]
Apr 26, 2026 ~ 'Awash In Moronic Economic Policies Crafted by the Overeducated'   To the ignorant democrats who talk about oil company 'price gouging', a guy in the business explains how competitive the market is and how small the margins are. "Oil is pumped out of the ground 7,000 miles away. It is moved by barge to Louisiana, where it is refined into gasoline. Additives are added. Then dozens of various grades of gasoline flow 1,000 miles through a pipeline to Virginia. The Feds and the state of Virginia tack on 60 cents in taxes to each gallon (in practice, this increases the per-gallon cost by more than 60 cents). A wholesaler picks up the gas and delivers it to the retailer, sometimes driving 60 miles to do so. By the time this 7,000-mile journey ends in Richmond, a gallon of gas at the pump often costs me less than a liter of bottled water, and that liter of Evian can’t make a 4,000 lb. vehicle loaded with 4 passengers go 40 miles down the road at 70 miles an hour. A retailer might make 3 or 4 cents per gallon, but the government always makes 60 cents per gallon, even when the retailer loses money. The last thing this remarkably efficient system needs is government price controls, a recipe for shortages and stagnant innovation." [Economics]
May 3, 2026 ~ 'Elizabeth Warren Killed Spirit Airlines and Now She’s Complaining About It'   @SenWarren is like a big wrecking ball. She has done absolutely nothing good in her career but she's done plenty of damage. For some reason, she and other Dems like Pete B. would not let Jet Blue buy Spirit which would have saved the airline and its 14,000 jobs. There was no monopoly concern as Jet Blue has a small market share. Warren claimed the merger would lead to "fewer flights and higher fares" which was BS and economically ignorant. But now that she killed Spirit Air, there are definitely fewer flights and higher fares due to less supply. She's as dumb as she is destructive. A worse than useless person because of all the active harm she does. [Economics, Loathsome Left]
May 3, 2026 ~ 'Trump Effect: Jobless Claims Fall to Lowest Level Since 1969'   "Applications for U.S. unemployment benefits fell last week to the lowest level in more than five decades, underscoring the continued strength of the labor market."   "The latest reading is historically rare. In weekly data going back to 1967, initial claims have been lower than 189,000 only 24 times out of 3,095 observations, or 0.78 percent of the time. Claims have not been lower than the current level since Sept. 6, 1969, when they stood at 182,000."   "President Trump’s border enforcement and immigration policies have significantly reduced competition U.S. workers face from newly arrived foreigners, transforming business employment strategies to retaining workers rather than turning to an ever-expanding pool of labor." [Economics, Economy, Illegal Immigration, Trump Win]
May 8, 2026 ~ 'Trump gives blue collar Americans a real chance of retiring well'   'President Donald J. Trump just delivered a game-changing blow against economic neglect by signing an executive order that opens high-quality retirement savings to millions of forgotten American workers.'   "Trump directed the Secretary of the Treasury to create TrumpIRA.gov, a federal platform launching by January 1, 2027. This site connects workers without employer plans to low-cost, high-quality IRAs from private financial institutions. Users can compare options by cost, quality, and investments. The platform makes informed decisions simple and affordable for hard-working Americans who have been shut out for too long. The order also expands the Federal Saver’s Match. Eligible lower- and middle-income workers can receive up to $1,000 per year in government contributions when they save in qualifying IRAs. Research proves people save far more with matching incentives. TrumpIRA.gov will drive awareness and participation, especially among those without prior paths to retirement. Blue-collar workers and those in small businesses or gig roles stand to gain most. They often lack any employer match or plan at all." [Economics, Trump Win]

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