The inflation problem in the U.S. grows worse by the day. But wait, say the experts, the consumer price index (CPI) continues to decline. The Fed “whipped” inflation with its interest rate price controls.
As Policy Types Cheer the Demise of ‘Inflation,’ Inflation Arrives Read More »
I voted for Trump in 2020, and intend to vote for him again. But let’s be serious, and let’s ask what Republicans would be saying if Trump had been re-elected in 2020.
Post-Covid-19 Higher Prices Have Donald Trump’s Fingerprints All Over Them Read More »
Well, you could see this one coming from miles away… What’s that? Nobel economists using the GOP’s new definition of “inflation” to critique Donald Trump’s future policies.
The Trump Crowd Wrote the Nobel Laureate Critiques of Trump Read More »
Talmon Joseph Smith and Jordyn Holman of the New York Times recently reported that “Over the past year, a series of indignant McDonald’s customers took to social media and posted receipts of orders they feel were overpriced.” Adding the empirical to the emotional, Smith and Holman note that since 2019 the price of a
On the Matter of Expensive Big Macs, McDonald’s Isn’t to Blame Read More »
A compelling new book by Jack Ryan and John Tamny argues that young Americans should consider delaying homeownership, for reasons beyond the current mortgage rate climate.
Don’t sweat the market, millennials. Homeownership is no panacea Read More »
To say that many prices were higher in the aftermath of a Key Bridge-equivalent collapse on a global scale in 2020 insults statement of the obvious. Of course prices were and are higher, and of course they will be as producers around the world feverishly work to fix what panicky politicians broke. Just please don’t call this inflation.
Write It Down: Historians Will Conclude 2021-Present Was Not Inflation Read More »
Gold continues to close at record-setting prices. In the past six months alone, the metal is up almost 25% — now costing as much as $2,400 per ounce.
Gold Prices Scream Biden’s ‘Shrinkflation’ Narrative Is All Wrong Read More »
Inflation is yet again a decline in the value of the unit of measure, a decline that can result in higher consumer prices.
No, Inflation Is Most Certainly Not Rising Prices Read More »
It used to be broadly understood that inflation was currency devaluation, not a politicized concept that warring ideologies could redefine on the fly. They’ve done exactly this in recent years by making inflation whatever they want it to be, including an effect of lockdowns, deficits, the impossibility that is “easy money,” and on and on.
Supply Siders Close To Trump Need To Fix His Dollar Confusion Read More »
Former budget director Mick Mulvaney is the latest, but surely not the last to say that inflation is “too much money chasing too few goods.”
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