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A few weeks ago, Jared Bernstein, the chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, gave a speech in Washington about what he termed the “almost round trip” of inflation, which went from 1.7 per cent in February, 2021, just after Joe Biden took office, up to 9.1 per cent in June of 2022, and back down to 2.9 per cent last month. Bernstein emphasized that the inflationary spike was primarily attributable to disruptions in the global supply chain, caused by the COVID pandemic. He argued, convincingly, that the Biden Administration’s policies helped the United States to weather that…
Bret Stephens: Hi, Gail. How do you feel about price controls?Gail Collins: Bret, we’ve spent a long time agreeing about stuff, thanks to our shared loathing of Donald Trump. But now we’re back to our great divide: economics. And just at the end of summer vacation!Bret: No better way to enliven an August afternoon than to summon the ghost of Richard Milhous Nixon — probably not your favorite president.Gail: You’re talking about a piece of Kamala Harris’s big economic speech on Friday. Well, I admit price controls would be a tough plan to get through, politically speaking.But Harris is trying…
Sen. Mark Kelly says when Trump is “done and gone,” Senate GOP will support immigration bill – CBS News Watch CBS News Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona tells “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” that he believes that once former President Donald Trump is “done and gone,” the Senate Republicans who, once Trump denounced it, abandoned the immigration bill will once again support it. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On This article was originally published by a www.cbsnews.com . Read the Original article here. .
Vice President Kamala Harris has suffered a triple blow after two recently released surveys put her behind Donald Trump in the key swing state of Pennsylvania, while a third showed her trailing the Republican presidential candidate at the national level.Polls of likely voters in Pennsylvania conducted by Cygnal and Emerson College both gave Trump a 1 point lead in the battleground state, which comes with 20 Electoral College votes. Separately, a Napolitan News Service survey gave the former president a 1 point advantage nationally.Harris quickly established herself as the Democrats’ presumptive presidential nominee after Joe Biden announced he was stepping…
As the saying goes, you can take the man out of Nebraska, but you can’t take the Nebraska out of the man: Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz returned to the Cornhusker State on Saturday as a returning hero and native-son-done-good. And while the Democratic vice presidential candidate was there, he made a pitch to old-school Nebraskans with a libertarian Republican bent, arguing that the “Grand Old Party” has left them behind. “I know this state, the kindness, generosity, I also know there’s a libertarian bent,” Walz said, after espousing his “mind your own damn business” slogan that has become popular on the…
STORY: :: Kamala Harris implies Trump is a ‘coward’ at a campaign stop in Pennsylvania:: August 18, 2024:: Rochester, Pennsylvania“This campaign is about a recognition that, frankly, over the last several years, there’s been this kind of perversion that has taken place, I think, which is to suggest, that the measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you beat down, when what we know is the real and true measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you lift up. [AUDIENCE APPLAUDS] That’s what we see as strength. We know what strength looks…
Billionaire Mark Cuban has spent the past few days on social media defending Kamala Harris’ economic proposals — while scratching his head over Donald Trump’s plans.So far, Cuban, who joined over 800 venture capitalists announcing their support for Harris in July, is gravitating toward her ideas.In one post, Cuban argued the $25,000 down-payment subsidy could help homebuyers save money. In another, the billionaire supported the vice president’s plan to ban price gouging on groceries, responding to a post from Bloomberg columnist Matthew Yglesias, who said that Harris “kind of vaguely said that antitrust enforcement is good (it is good).””This is…
Republican senator and Donald Trump loyalist Lindsey Graham said Trump is in danger of losing the election if he fails to focus on policy issues and continues mounting personal attacks of Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris. “President Trump can win this election. If you have a policy debate, he wins. Donald Trump the provocateur, the showman, may not win this election,” he said at NBC News’ Meet the Press.The South Carolina Republican leader said it will be a nightmare for Kamala Harris to defend her policy choices. Former presidential candidate 2024 Nikki Haley recently opined that Trump should stop whining.…
In Chicago this week Democrats will officially welcome Kamala Harris as their presidential nominee. Just a few months ago this was, for many people, an unlikely if not unthinkable scenario. Harris was a lacklustre vice-president, the narrative went, and her previous bid to be a presidential candidate had not gone well. Today things could not be more different. Celebrities are falling over themselves to endorse her, and there is genuine excitement over her entry into the race. She is said to be enthusing young voters and those who could not muster much interest in Joe Biden. So what’s changed? Janell…
A State Committeeman from the Pierce County Republican Party (PCRP) reported to police that he was threatened by former gubernatorial candidate Semi Bird. He claimed that during a weekend Washington State Republican Party (WSRP) meeting, Bird allegedly warned him that he’d “bury” him. “He (Semi) started out calling me a fat mother f****r, said several other things that I can’t remember then as his wife walked out of the restroom he stated I better be f*****g glad his wife was with him or he would bury me,” the PCRP official wrote in a statement to the Wenatchee Police Department obtained…