Inflation
February 7, 2025 — Scott Johnson
The New York Post cover story documents the progress President Trump made in controlling the border within 24 hours of his inauguration: The new US Border Patrol chief said the number of illegal migrants stopped trying to cross the besieged southern border has dropped an astonishing 90% since January 21 — a day after President Trump’s inauguration. Michael Banks, a longtime former border agent himself, touted the plunge in illegal
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October 22, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Too bad if something were to happen to it. You can tell how badly Trump’s McDonald’s coup worried Democrats by the fact that they immediately threatened the fast food chain. Senators Ron Wyden, Bob Case, and Elizabeth Warren sent this letter to McDonald’s CEO Chris Kempczinski. I won’t go through it line by line, but here are some observations. The left-wing senators write: We write with concern regarding increases in
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August 21, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Target is based in the Twin Cities. We try to support it when we can. This morning Target announced that it had beaten Wall Street’s second-quarter expectations for earnings and revenue. We are happy for Target and Target CEO Brian Cornell was pretty, pretty happy about the results. Cornell followed up Target’s announcement with an appearance on CNBC’s Squawk Box. Mischievous host Joe Kernan asked Cornell if some “price gouging”
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August 17, 2024 — Scott Johnson
The inflation of the Biden era has inflicted enormous suffering on the American people. With her tie-breaking vote to pass the Inflation Reduction Act, Vice President Harris was instrumental to the outbreak of inflation triggered by the perversely named legislation. Speaking of misinformation, disinformation, demagoguery, and falsehood, I wonder about the title of the law. There oughta be a law. Indeed, Krazee-Eyez Killa Jack Smith could find one that would
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August 16, 2024 — Scott Johnson
One might wonder why “price gouging” and “corporate greed” regularly emerge as problems under Democratic administrations. One may even wonder what Vice President Harris is talking about as she boldly comes out against them. One may also wonder at the stupidity of White House correspondent Zeke Miller’s AP story (with contributions by “Josh Funk in Omaha, Nebraska, and Chris Rugaber in Washington, and Associated Press writer Darlene Superville in Largo,
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May 20, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Students of ancient history recall the classic question Ronald Reagan posed in his only debate with Jimmy Carter before the 1980 presidential election: Are you better off than you were four years ago? Students of ancient history also understand that the 2024 presidential election reframes that question, Grover Cleveland style. In the Monday edition of Bubba News, Bubba Atkinson posts “one heck of a chart,” as he calls it. It
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May 17, 2024 — Scott Johnson
President Biden has taken to asserting on more than one occasion that inflation stood at 9 percent when he took office. The statement sems to call for a follow-up question on the source of his misinformation, as they put in the Censorship Industrial Complex that he heads. But no, we have been left hanging. Students of ancient history may recall that inflation rate was actually 1.4 percent when Biden took
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May 15, 2024 — Scott Johnson
In an interview with Yahoo Finance yesterday President Biden claimed yet again that inflation stood at 9 percent when he took office: “I think inflation has gone slightly up. It was at 9 percent when I came in and it’s now down around 3 percent.” Washington Post Fact Check artiste Glenn Kessler wanders around Biden’s iterations of this falsehood with astounding verbosity. The verbosity delays his assignment of Four Pinocchios
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May 10, 2024 — Scott Johnson
In his interview with Erin Burnett for CNN, President Biden most notably announced his betrayal of Israel the day after proclaiming his “ironclad” support. We had seen it coming. It wasn’t a surprise. It was obviously top of what is left of his mind. He also unleashed a series of whoppers that suggest he is lost in a senescent fog. The editors of the New York Post tabulate and itemize
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April 12, 2024 — John Hinderaker
The stock market was down sharply again today, as a result of fears of resurgent inflation. Inflation is second only to senility as a threat to Joe Biden’s campaign, and the campaign is desperate to find an answer. How desperate? They plan to blame Donald Trump: On Wednesday, after the latest inflation data showed an unexpected acceleration in price gains, Mr. Biden again tried to assure voters that he is
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March 14, 2024 — Scott Johnson
In Cole Porter’s “Miss Otis Regrets,” the heroine announces that she’s unable to lunch today. Why? She has a good excuse — because she was strung up by a mob for killing “the man who had led her so far astray.” Now Ms. Yellen regrets. Janet Yellen holds the venerable office of Secretary of the Treasury. Former chairman of the Federal Reserve, Yellen is well qualified for the job and
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March 7, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Joe Biden is delivering his State of the Union speech tonight. Apparently he will chide Americans for not appreciating his wonderful economy; declining real wages will not be mentioned. He will denounce “shrinkflation,” as though people are too stupid to know inflation when they see it. Nor will Biden mention the eight million or so illegals who have streamed across the border, wreaking havoc, since he opened it. Biden has
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March 7, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Jeffrey Anderson presents a comparative analysis of presidents and inflation. The mainstream press to the contrary notwithstanding, he explains what Biden has done to make us feel so black and blue. It’s not our imagination. It’s the inflation, stupid! See his City Journal column “No great mystery.” Anderson manages to review the data and perform the analysis with a sense of humor. The daycare minders at the White House have
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February 11, 2024 — Scott Johnson
President Biden has posted a Super Bowl message. The message I extract from it is slightly different than the one he is peddling. The message I get from it is that he and his handlers think we’re dumber than doornails. We may be stupid, but you can’t clobber us in the face and pretend the other guy did it. Biden may not remember that he and his fellow Dems are
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February 7, 2024 — Steven Hayward
Having unleashed a wave of inflation not seen for more than 40 years, Democrats naturally are shocked to discover inflation is not popular with Americans. So naturally liberals are dredging up the only policy worse than inflation as a proposed remedy—price controls! What a great idea. Our friends and Kite & Key Media are on it, and offer this nice treatment of the issue. Not that any liberals are capable
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September 22, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Having spent $78 on lunch at the Newark Airport, New York Times columnist David Brooks seized the opportunity to present himself as a man of the people in the Xeet below. Like Bill Clinton, he has felt their pain. Before he got burned in Newark, however, he apparently couldn’t understand the economic plight of Bidenomics. The X community has added a note that gives Brooks’s complaint a little “context.” This
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August 16, 2023 — Scott Johnson
President Biden visited Ingeteam Inc. in Milwaukee yesterday to talk about the Hawaii wildfires he missed while sunning on the beach in Delaware over the weekend, tout the benefits of the Inflation Ignition Act, and lie about Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson. Some intrepid reporter ought to write a noirish nonfiction exposé of the Biden presidency titled The Long Vacation with the subtitle And the Vacant Mind. The White House has
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