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Electricity Prices are the New Inflation Flashpoint
Electricity prices have moved from the background of daily life to the front lines of politics. What was once a quiet household expense is now a visible burden and a potent symbol of policy failure. Prices are rising not…
Oil Prices Tumble As Competition Revives Supply
When a sharply lower price per gallon pops up at local gasoline pumps, it can induce a momentary cognitive dissonance. I mean, where is inflation? During the first 10 months of President Donald Trump’s second term, the price…
Fed Rate Cuts Usually Come Closer To A Recession As Fed Eases Citing Labor Market Concerns Without Jobs Data Amid Shutdown
By Robert Romano The U.S. Federal Reserve on Oct. 29 once again voted to cut the federal funds rate — from a range of 4.25 percent to 4 percent, to a range of 3.75 percent to 4 percent — as the central bank cited ongoing…
Frankenstein’s Money Press: How Washington Unleashed the Modern Monetary Monster
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,Over many a quaint and curious chart of fiscal lore — While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,As of markets softly rapping, rapping at my…
Digital ID and the Return of Big Brother Britain
Fresh out of university and looking for a career in public policy, I interviewed for a job in the Conservative Research Department of the British Conservative Party. At the time, Margaret Thatcher, the Prime Minister, was…
Better Policy is Not Enough in Argentina
Since taking office as Argentina’s president in December 2023, Javier Milei has done something remarkable. He has reduced the annual inflation from 211 percent to 33.5 percent and balanced the budget for the first time in…
California Democrats’ Dark Scheme To Suspend Independent Redistricting Exposed In New Power Grab
By Manzanita Miller In a blatantly self-serving power move, California Democrats have cooked up a redistricting scheme they are marketing to voters as “leveling the playing field”, when in reality it serves to violate the…
Cowboy Diplomacy: Ranchers Reject Tariff Rhetoric
The howls of disapproval from the cowboy-hat demographic have been loud this week, and for good reason. President Trump has announced plans to quadruple the import quota of Argentine beef to “bring beef prices down” at the…
We Have Never Been Austere
Austerity comes from the Greek word “austeros,” connoting harsh, bitter, astringency. The first instance of the word to mean fiscal discipline was in 1937, when John Maynard Keynes admonished a fretful President Roosevelt…
Polls: Democrats Still Lead VA, NJ Governor Races, Republican Holds Onto Lead In VA Attorney General Race
By Robert Romano In what will be an early test for Republicans following the historic reelection of President Donald Trump to non-consecutive terms in 2024, wherein the GOP reclaimed the Senate and held the House of…
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