EconomyCommentary
‘Green’ Housing Mandates Push Americans Further Into the Red
Home prices across the nation are back up near a record high. That makes this a particularly bad time for the Biden administration to have rolled… Read More
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5 Examples of How Congress Wastes Your Money Amid Inflation
The latest inflation numbers show 3.5% annual growth for consumer prices, still well above pre-pandemic levels. That means millions of families are struggling to get back to… Read More
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EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Roger Marshall Prescribes Solutions for Congress’ Budget Woes
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Nearly 40 Republican senators gathered Wednesday afternoon for a frank conversation about Congress’ broken budget process and the rapidly growing national… Read More
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Free Markets: Necessary But Not Sufficient
For most of our lifetimes, classically liberal economics so dominated the Right that nobody wondered if conservatives were abandoning free markets. In recent years, though,… Read More
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‘Economic Suicide’: Biden Admin Justifies Tax Hike Based on Racial Criteria
The Biden administration’s analysis of its revenue proposals for fiscal year 2025 argues targeted tax hikes that disproportionately affect white people would ease racial wealth inequality…. Read More
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Latest Job-Killing Policy Spells More Bad News for Californians
California’s list of public policy failures was already long, but hiking its minimum wage to $20 an hour for fast-food workers may belong at the top…. Read More
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New York Poised to Use Taxpayer Dollars to Pay Journalists
New York state lawmakers plan to hand out tens of millions in taxpayer dollars to local media outlets to help pay for journalists’ salaries. The… Read More
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Why Small Businesses Hate Bidenomics
If the economy is so good, why do small business leaders feel so bad? The latest Small Business Optimism Index from the National Federation of… Read More
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Making Sense of the Male-Female ‘Wage Gap’
What’s behind the wage gap between men and women? It has narrowed recently. In 2023, women’s median weekly wages of $1,005 equaled 84% of men’s… Read More
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Joining UAW Would Be Loser for Volkswagen Employees
Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga, Tennessee, will vote this week on whether to join the United Auto Workers, and President Joe Biden is trying to help. Last month,… Read More
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Banning Freelance Work
The Labor Department just imposed 300 pages of new regulations to reclassify many individual contractors as payroll employees. CNBC claims this could help freelancers “recover… Read More
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Liberals Love the Minimum Wage—Even Though It Hurts People They Claim to Love
On April 1, the new California $20-per-hour minimum wage for fast-food workers went into effect. In signing the bill, California Gov. Gavin Newsom rejected the… Read More
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Where US Job Growth Occurred in March Reveals the Ugly Truth About ‘Bidenomics’
Huge job gains reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in March were fueled largely by increases in government positions and employment of foreign-born workers…. Read More
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Increased Crime Cutting Into Small-Business Earnings, Survey of Owners Finds
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—One-third of small-business owners say increased crime is cutting into their earnings, and 7 in 10 grade President Joe Biden’s performance… Read More
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Yikes! Perilous Economy for First-Time Homebuyers
Buying a home is a cornerstone of the American dream, a dream that is further out of reach today for many Americans. According to the… Read More
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Americans Face Higher Costs Under EPA’s Electric Truck Mandate
One week the Environmental Protection Agency comes for our gasoline-powered cars, the next for our diesel-powered trucks. EPA chose Good Friday, when many Americans were… Read More
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Automobile ‘Bidenvilles’ Are the New Shantytowns Amid US Housing Affordability Crisis
When people couldn’t afford housing during the Great Depression, they built shantytowns from scrap construction supplies and named them “Hoovervilles,” after President Herbert Hoover. Today,… Read More
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How the Fed Helped Create a Permanent American Underclass
In 1913, Woodrow Wilson and his progressives promised that the Federal Reserve would avert both depressions and inflation, while preventing the wealthy from controlling America’s financial markets… Read More
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How to Repair the Key Bridge Without Breaking the Bank
The collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore came as quite a shock. After a massive container ship struck one of the bridge’s pillars, the… Read More
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Distracted By Climate Change? Former Trump Transportation Official Weighs in on Bridge Collapse
What will be the long-term impact of the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland, Tuesday? What industries will be affected and… Read More
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US Auto Industry Faces Grim Future as Biden’s EPA Sets EV Mandates
Not since Prohibition has the federal government sought to ban a product as popular as the internal combustion engine. This week, the Environmental Protection Agency… Read More
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Florida’s New Online Dashboard Displays Cost of Unrecompensed Hospital Care Provided to Illegal Aliens
Florida has launched a dashboard that reports the total cost of uncompensated health care for illegal immigrants, which currently tops $566 million. Announced on Wednesday,… Read More
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‘The DC Cartel Is At It Again’: GOP Lawmakers Rip $1.2 Trillion Spending Package
House Republican lawmakers are speaking out against a $1.2 trillion spending package released early Thursday morning ahead of a potential partial shutdown of the government…. Read More
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The More the Feds ‘Borrow,’ the More We Pay for Mortgages, Credit Cards, Student Loans
If you think the Treasury Department borrowing trillions of dollars is a problem only for future generations, think again. The interest rates on your credit… Read More
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Why Small Businesses Cheer as Judge Strikes Down ‘Transparency’ Law
Lawmakers snuck the Corporate Transparency Act into the 1,480-page National Defense Authorization Act in 2021. The measure is targeted squarely at small businesses with fewer… Read More
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How Biden’s Big-Deficit Agenda Guarantees Inflation
Inflation has been a top concern for Americans for years. This is understandable: Inflation-adjusted earnings have declined by thousands of dollars in recent years, putting… Read More
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Biden Undermines Law by Invoking This to Create National Monuments
Since 2022, President Joe Biden has used the Antiquities Act to create five national monuments, collectively spanning more than 1.5 million acres of federal land. While these… Read More
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2 Charts: Comparing Biden’s Federal Budget to Your Household Budget
President Joe Biden’s latest budget proposes the federal government spend trillions more than it will take in, increasing the already unsustainable federal debt by $17… Read More
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Senate Republicans at Odds With Democrats on Banning This Digital Currency
If you’re a fan of the U.S. dollar, you can keep it from turning into a surveillance tool of the federal government—at least according to… Read More
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Would-Be Homeowners Need 80% More Income to Buy Than 4 Years Ago, Study Finds
The housing market is not immune from inflationary woes as buyers’ purchasing power has significantly diminished in four years. Homebuyers in 2024 need 80% more… Read More
