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CNN Just Perfectly Explained How Inflation Hurts the Working Class. But They Left Out the Most Important Part
A broken clock is still right twice a day. And even CNN stumbles onto an accurate interpretation of the news…
Read More »Meet the Only Monarch in History Nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize
EL CHORRO, SPAIN – After a leisurely stroll yesterday on “the world’s scariest hike,” I am ready for the main…
Read More »Inflation soars in June. It is time for the FED to act. Now!
The Bureau of Labor Statistics just announced. That consumer prices increased by a whopping .9% in June. That means since June 2020…
Read More »“Worse Than People Think”: Businesses Warn That Inflation is Worse Than Expected, Forecast New Price Hikes
Executives of multiple major U.S. corporations have warned that inflation may be worse than expected and will cause them to…
Read More »Jobless Claims In Line with Expectations as States Shed Extended Unemployment Benefits
The number of Americans filing new unemployment claims decreased to 360,000 last week as states end the expanded unemployment benefits,…
Read More »The Depression of 1920-1921: Why Historians—and Economists—Often Overlook It
In July 1921, the United States emerged from a depression. Though the economic statistics of the time were rudimentary by…
Read More »How a Florida Woman Got a $100,000 Fine—For Parking on Her Own Property
There’s nothing worse than when you’re having a bad day and come back to your car to find a parking…
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At Least 1.8 Million People Refused to Return to Work Because of Generous Welfare Benefits, Poll Shows
Here are FEE, we predicted from the beginning of the pandemic that Congress’s decision to create an unemployment benefits system…
Read More » How the Government Used the Pandemic to Crush Small Businesses—and Why: An Interview With Carol Roth
This week FEE sat down with Carol Roth, an American entrepreneur, TV personality, radio host, investor, and bestselling author. Roth’s…
Read More »Inflation Just Hit a 13-Year High. Here’s Why You Should Care
Defenders of big-government pandemic interventions have insisted that any price inflation these schemes have caused is just temporary. But even…
Read More »Inflation Spikes Again, Marks Quickest Increase In 13 Years
Inflation surged 5.4% over the 12-month period ending in June, the quickest spike since August 2008, a Department of Labor…
Read More »The Numbers Are In, Biden’s Inflation Is Not Going Away
Inflation is expected to remain elevated and drive consumer prices higher for several more years, according to a survey conducted…
Read More »Why the Poor Die So Much Sooner Than Wealthier People (and What We All Can Do to Help)
The top quarter of American income earners can expect to live a decade longer than the bottom quarter, medical research…
Read More »The Best Anti-Fragility Speech Ever Came From a Surprising Source
Jonathan Haidt has become one of the thinkers I make a point of listening to when he speaks or writes.…
Read More »The Highlights (and Lowlights) of Biden’s New Executive Orders
It’s unfortunately par for the course in recent history for American presidents to pursue unilateral executive action instead of the…
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