Price Controls: Politics and Policy
The week of August 12, 2024: Prices (and their uses), trade, industrial policy, Argentina, and much, much, more.
The week of August 12, 2024: Prices (and their uses), trade, industrial policy, Argentina, and much, much, more.
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On a quartet of performances at this summer’s Salzburg Festival.
For progressives who somehow thought Biden was too moderate, a President Harris would kick things up a notch — no matter the consequences.
Anti-Israel protesters at the DNC were seen holding a banner that said, “Killer Kamala,” as they marched through the streets of Chicago.
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Anti-Israel protesters crashed the Democratic National Convention (DNC) welcome party on Sunday night, and one protester rushed the stage to deliver a “free Palestine” message.
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FIRST ON FOX: The Democratic National Committee (DNC) projected images on Trump Tower in Chicago on Sunday evening ahead of the party’s convention on Monday.”All eyes are on Chicago, and tonight, everyone is receiving a preview of the contrast that Democrats will drive throughout the Democratic National Convention this week – directly on Trump International Hotel,” the DNC said in a statement.
Former President Trump will visit the U.S. southern border in Cochise County, Arizona, this Thursday, amid a broken border resulting in hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants pouring into the country, and a drug crisis fueled by fentanyl pushed by drug cartels.Trump’s campaign announced his visit on Sunday, blaming Vice President Kamala Harris, who was referred to as “border Czar Kamala Harris,” for the “country’s worst border crisis.
Anti-Israel protesters were seen gathering outside of where the Democratic National Convention (DNC) will take place this week, with some present even calling on voters to reject Kamala Harris.
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PITTSBURGH — Vice President Harris on Sunday appeared to label former President Trump a “coward” during a stop Sunday in the crucial battleground state of Pennsylvania.
Morton Salt has joined the growing list of major companies to ditch Chicago for safer and more business-friendly cities ahead of the Democratic National Convention’s kickoff on Monday.
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Leftist activists protest in support of Gaza, abortion, and against Donald Trump ahead of the Democrat National Convention in Chicago on Sunday, August 18.
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Aprea auditioned for the role of Michael Corleone in the legendary 1972 film, “The Godfather,” but Al Pacino got the leading role
If Democrats want to learn why they are losing support among working-class voters, they should get out of the convention center and look around Chicago.
Vice President Kamala Harris’ rise to the top of the Democratic ticket has re-energized Black voters in the key swing states of Michigan and Pennsylvania.Harris leads former President Trump 70%-9% among Black voters in Michigan and 70%-11% among Black voters in Pennsylvania, according to the results of a Suffolk University/USA Today poll released Sunday.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., says policy is the GOP’s key to the White House, and urges former President Trump to focus on that rather than his opponent.”Donald Trump, President Trump, can win this election,” Graham said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “His policies are good for America. And if you have a policy debate for president, he wins. Donald Trump, the provocateur, the showman may not win this election.
Some rioters must correct their behavior behind bars, while other criminals are prescribed sunshine for a different lifestyle.
American politics forces Evangelicals to grapple with the tension between political expediency and the integrity of their faith.
A worrisome new consensus in the medical community holds that doctors should be as concerned with politics as they are with medicine.
The rubric is ‘Heads Democrats win, tails Republicans lose,’ and we see it over and over.
A new proposal being considered by the New York City Council would limit correction officers’ use of pepper spray to control inmates acting out in the city’s jails.The bill, introduced Thursday, would require correction officers to obtain authorization from their tour commander before using high-powered oleoresin capsicum sprays, otherwise known as pepper spray, on inmates except in emergency situations.
‘I think the thing that I most admire about them is the depth and subtlety of the emotion’
The Minnesota National Guard revealed earlier this week that Gov. Tim Walz, the 2024 vice presidential candidate, had his rank reduced to master sergeant a day before he retired, which means that he never retired as a command sergeant major as he has claimed numerous times in political ads and in political settings.
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‘I literally fell in love’
A Planned Parenthood clinic will be offering people free vasectomies and abortions during the Democratic National Convention (DNC), which is set to be held next week in Chicago.
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Former President Trump took a swing at Vice President Harris’s recently debuted economic plan, saying the Democratic presidential nominee had gone “full communist.””In her speech yesterday, Kamala went full communist. You heard that? She went full communist,” Trump told supporters during a spirited swing-state rally Saturday at Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey Plaza in Wilkes-Barre Township, Pennsylvania.
It’s the Democrats’ race to lose. That’s the view of liberal activist and filmmaker Michael Moore who has warned Democrats not to fumble their chances of beating former President Trump in November’s presidential election now that Vice President Kamala Harris heads the ticket.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate, made a pitch to Republican and Libertarian voters in Nebraska while speaking at a rally in Omaha Saturday. Walz, who grew up in the Cornhusker State, told the audience, “In Nebraska, you got a slogan here: ‘Nebraska. It’s not for everyone.’ Well, it sure ain’t for Donald Trump, I’ll tell you that. This guy is the opposite of everything here.
Resounding calls for Vice President Kamala Harris to conduct press interviews are mounting after the Democratic presidential nominee unveiled her economic plan days before heading to her party’s national convention in Chicago.Tim Murtaugh, senior adviser to the Trump campaign, told Fox News Digital Harris is running the “most deceitful campaign in history” as she “hides from the American people.
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