#Resilient shoppers push retail sales higher in September

#Resilient shoppers push retail sales higher in September

“#Resilient shoppers push retail sales higher in September” Americans continued to spend at a solid clip in September even while facing sticker shock in grocery aisles, car lots and restaurants as snarled global supply chains slow the flow of goods. Retail sales rose a seasonally adjusted 0.7% in September from the month before, the U.S….

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#Nancy’s attack on the media, the NYT’s hit on Kyrsten Sinema

#Nancy’s attack on the media, the NYT’s hit on Kyrsten Sinema

“#Nancy’s attack on the media, the NYT’s hit on Kyrsten Sinema” This headline: We say: That Washington Post headline Thursday paints Republicans as the bad guys in the supply-chain crisis, which has scores of ships — carrying 250,000 containers of merchandise — lined up waiting to be unloaded outside US ports, slowing deliveries and fueling inflation….

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#Welcome back to 70s-style stagflation misery thanks to Biden

#Welcome back to 70s-style stagflation misery thanks to Biden

“#Welcome back to 70s-style stagflation misery thanks to Biden” A feckless Team Biden has set America up for a new round of 1970s-style stagflation. The similarities between then and now are eerie. Seventies stagflation resulted from profligate fiscal policy, politicized monetary policy and food and energy shocks. President Lyndon Johnson’s guns-and-butter decision to simultaneously finance…

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