economy

I Don’t Feel Your Pain – HotAir

        In 1992, Democratic presidential nominee Bill Clinton famously answered a voter question about how the national debt affected him personally. Clinton’s response was often paraphrased as, “I feel your pain.”         Whether Bill was for once being sincere or not, his words resonated.         Now […]

Staggering Under the Weight of It All – HotAir

My last post yesterday was kind of a quick, one-day-news-tour around the wreckage #Bidenomics has left strewn across the American landscape. To wit, the inflation pressures, employment pressures, and unending social reengineering pressures. Being subject to the progressive grifting regime has not been beneficial in the least for the country’s psyche, soul, or security, either […]

The Left’s New Goal: Degrowth – HotAir

        The left has a new goal: degrowth!          We should “buy less stuff,” forgive debts, grow our own food, etc.         They say this will “build a more just and sustainable society” and “save the planet” from “climate chaos.”         This idea […]

Biden Needs to Go Back and Take Remedial Math – HotAir

        It’s a good thing President Joe Biden wasn’t strapped to a polygraph while giving his State of the Union speech on Thursday, because his results would have come back about as clean as O.J. Simpson’s. That was especially true when he recited a lot of tall tales — and some whoppers […]

Middle America Is Dying Hard – HotAir

        WEIRTON, West Virginia — Most people in this town will tell you they’d rather have taken a physical punch to the gut than get the news they received yesterday when Cleveland-Cliffs Steel announced it was idling its tinplate production plant, a move that directly cost 900 people their jobs.     […]

What Biden Bull Market? – HotAir

        President Joe Biden is boasting about the recent stock market rally. He’s right that stocks have been on a tear for the last 14 months. The S&P 500 hit 5,000 for the first time in history. That’s up from 500 some 30 years ago.         Even with all […]