Inflation still isn’t letting up, and it’s a top concern for Americans right now. But we just learned of yet…
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In April of 2020, the Press Herald republished a Washington Post article which covered President Trump’s distribution of $1,200 relief checks to…
Where I grew up in northern Minnesota, it’s easy to see the impact that economic hard times leave on disadvantaged…
The rise in consumer prices has rightly received a great deal of attention, as inflation hovers around 40-year highs. Everyone…
According to The Hill, Maine’s average price of gas per gallon was 10th highest in the nation on Memorial Day.…
Government policies fail and create problems in the real world every day. But most Americans are so busy in their…
Sometimes I have to remind myself how good we Americans have it because—let’s face it—there is a lot of bad…
Tax Day is a fitting day to revisit where our tax-and-spend ways have gotten us. When the president’s own stimulus-spending…
Inflation has surged across much of the developed world in the past year as COVID-19 lockdowns eased and pent-up demand…
Another day, another alarming inflation metric. We just got the numbers for the Personal Consumption Expenditures index (PCE), the Federal…
Despite inflation running at a 40-year high, the Biden administration is pushing ahead with plans to hike wages for federal…
Ten months ago, Jeremy Siegel issued a dire warning about the trajectory of prices. “The money supply since the beginning…
The optimistic scenario goes like this. America shakes off what remains of the pandemic in the coming months without the…
On January 1, Maine’s minimum wage increased to $12.75 per hour. The increase is the result of a law passed…
The most widely-used metrics of consumer price inflation are hitting their highest levels in decades, with the Consumer Price Index…
President Joe Biden once bizarrely remarked on the 2020 campaign trail, “Milton Friedman isn’t running the show anymore.” It shows.…
Last month, inflation in the US reached 6.2%, the highest year-over-year increase in more than three decades. Measured via the Bureau…
Last week’s economic reports revealed that President Biden has apparently found a DeLorean time machine, equipped with a Chinese-made flux…
The government has spent its way into an inflationary mess, which we’ve already felt at the gas pump, among other places. Don’t be surprised if everyday expenses continue to be more costly and your disposable income starts to fall.
A recent CNBC article highlights a common economic fallacy surrounding the concept of inflation. The author claims that inflation can…
Proponents of big government spending have desperately argued that mounting price inflation is just temporary. But multiple alarming inflation metrics…
To force these new labor restrictions upon employers now would be a grave mistake. LD 553 would likely harm employment across the state of Maine when we most sorely need it.
Yesterday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released numbers indicating that the average price level of consumer goods has risen…
On Thursday night, Joe Biden rolled out a sweeping proposal for $1.9 trillion more in COVID-19 relief and stimulus spending. …