EconomyCommentary
DC Suburbs and Silicon Valley Compete to Be Richest Place in USA
If you want to live in one of the wealthiest communities in the United States of America, do not move to Manhattan or Palm Beach,… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Railroad Strike Threat Shows How Unions’ Rigid Rules Often Hurt Workers
Bound by the terms of a pre-COVID-19 pandemic contract, railroad workers have felt overworked and undercompensated in recent years. Having come within hours of a… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Nowhere Left to Hide: Neither White House nor Common Man Can Evade Recession Data
Newly released data from the Commerce Department show what some people have been saying for months: The nation is in recession. Furthermore, the Biden administration’s… Read More
EconomyCommentary
6 Important Issues at Stake in Appropriations Bills
The government’s fiscal year begins Oct. 1, but as per usual, Congress has failed to complete the annual appropriations process to provide spending authority for… Read More
EconomyNews
How Can Small Businesses Prosper? Job Creators Network Has a Plan
Small-business owners and congressmen have unveiled an eight-point plan to guide lawmakers in creating conditions for small American businesses to prosper. Among the priorities in the plan,… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Biden’s Food Conference Should Put People First, Not Environmental Extremism
The Biden administration should ensure the correct focus of a conference it will host next Wednesday on food-related issues such as nutrition and access to… Read More
EconomyCommentary
‘Dilbert’ Fired by Some Comics Pages, but Critics of Corporate Wokeness Might Get Last Laugh
One of the best ways to fight cultural absurdity is to make fun of it. Scott Adams, creator of the comic strip “Dilbert,” has spent… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Republicans Can Ensure Biden Follows Law and $130B in Spending Cuts Happen by Year-end
President Joe Biden has gone on a massive spending binge, racking up trillions in debt and flouting budgetary rules along the way. It has hit… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Uncool: Biden Pushes Senate to Ratify Treaty That Would Raise Cost of Air Conditioning
After a hot summer with utility bills rising, reasonable people would think that President Joe Biden would want to keep air conditioning costs low for… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Newsom Turns California Into a Third World State
Declining population for the first time in its existence, rising violent crime rates, soaring homelessness, the highest gas prices in the country, companies leaving in droves—California’s future is withering away…. Read More
EconomyNews
Post-Pandemic Job Recovery Paints a Favorable Picture for Republicans, Report Finds
The Republican National Committee released a report this Friday showing that Republican-led states have led the way in creating new jobs and lowering unemployment since… Read More
Economy Commentary
When Will Low-Income Americans Stop Looking to Government?
New polling data from Gallup show Americans are not having an easy time through this period of rising prices. According to Gallup, 56% of Americans… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Our Elected Representatives Are Terrible Stewards of Taxpayer Dollars. Here’s a Better Path Forward.
The shopping spree is a fun concept. The winner of a game show or sweepstakes gets five minutes to race through a store piling high… Read More
EconomyCommentary
The Latest Jobs Numbers Seem Impressive, Until You Look Closer
The latest Labor Department employment report shows the economy added 315,000 jobs in August, ordinarily a healthy increase and sign of a robust economy. Sadly,… Read More
EconomyCommentary
In 5 Charts, How Heritage’s Budget Blueprint Would Clean Up Washington’s Mess
It’s no secret that the federal government’s finances are a wreck. Washington has spent too much and added far too much to the national debt… Read More
EconomyNews
Newsom Paves Way for $22/Hour Fast-Food Minimum Wage
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, signed a bill Monday establishing a council empowered to raise the minimum wage for the state’s fast-food workers to more… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Unlike Biden’s, Heritage Foundation’s Budget Blueprint Charts Responsible Course for America
President Joe Biden’s irresponsible budget policies are hurting America’s families. Inflation hit 8.5% in July, a rate not seen since 1981. Prices for things families… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Biden’s Transfer of Wealth to the Wealthier
President Joe Biden acted as if he was being compassionate to people suffering economic hardships when he announced last week his plan for forgiving billions… Read More
EconomyCommentary
A Vote-Buying Scheme for Affluent Millennials
“No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law.” That’s what it says right there in the Constitution…. Read More
EconomyCommentary
Biden’s Spendy, Bloated Government Corrodes Our Economic Freedom
America’s economic freedom is in growing peril. That was one of the core findings of The Heritage Foundation’s 2022 Index of Economic Freedom, published in… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Why Biden’s Student Loan ‘Forgiveness’ Will Make Inflation, Labor Shortage Worse
Since the pandemic started, the federal government has erased over $100 billion of student loan debt through a moratorium on loan repayments. President Joe Biden… Read More
EconomyAnalysis
Biden Student Loan Amnesty a Windfall for DC Staffers
After announcing executive action to unilaterally and retroactively wipe away $300 billion in federal student debt, President Joe Biden looked over his shoulder to answer… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Insulin Price Caps Aren’t the Answer
Over the past several decades, the federal government has exercised unprecedented control over aspects of American life that our Founders never intended—including your personal medical… Read More
EconomyNews
‘Widen the Racial Wealth Gap’: Economist Breaks Down Effects of Biden’s Student Loan Forgiveness
An economics professor from Johns Hopkins University said during a Tuesday CNN appearance that President Joe Biden’s plan to forgive student loan debt would make… Read More
EconomyCommentary
‘Forgiving’ Student Loan Debt Would Be Illegal, Raise Inflation
The Biden White House is reportedly considering “forgiving” $10,000 worth of student debt for some borrowers, a move that is likely illegal and definitely will… Read More
EconomyCommentary
How Rising Prices Are Affecting Young Adults
While younger people have been less affected by the COVID-19 virus and have even benefited from some of the pandemic’s effects on the economy, they… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Inflation Reduction Act Increases Washington’s Power
In January 1925, President Calvin Coolidge addressed the American Society of Newspaper Editors in Washington. In his remarks, Coolidge said, “The chief business of the… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Inflation Reduction Act Is the Problem, Not the Solution
A central pillar of the just-passed Inflation Reduction Act is $80 billion going to the IRS to hire some 87,000 new agents, doubling the current… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Exposing China’s Semiconductor Vulnerabilities
The CEO of Chinese tech company Tsinghua Unigroup has become the latest in a number of Chinese executives under investigation in connection with corruption of… Read More
Economy Commentary
Inflation Reduction Act Shows Far Left’s Extremism and Elitism
Last Friday, the House passed the misleadingly named “Inflation Reduction Act,” a massive tax and spend bill that illustrates just how extreme and out of… Read More
