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Inflation: Comparing Trump and Biden...

Democrats hope to press the "affordability" issue in this year's midterm election season, but there's one potentially glaring problem for them, as illustrated by our friends at Unleash Prosperity...

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Federal Sugar Subsidies: Not Very Sweet
By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, January 18 2018
It's bad enough any time the federal government needlessly intervenes into the U.S. economy.  After all, over the past year alone we've witnessed how reducing federal intervention turbocharges our economy and ignites markets to record high after record high, following years of malaise and the worst cyclical recovery in recorded U.S. history.  Intervention also increases the amount of crony capitalism and rent-seeking that have earned Washington, D.C., its "Swamp" moniker.  But it's even worse when the economic interference in question costs at least three times as many…
 
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