#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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#This is Joe Biden’s Jimmy Carter moment

#This is Joe Biden’s Jimmy Carter moment

“#This is Joe Biden’s Jimmy Carter moment” The utterly nauseating and unnecessary abandonment of Afghanistan to its fate recalls a similar humiliation at the hands of Islamist radicals in the Jimmy Carter administration.  President Biden’s profligate spending policies are unleashing inflation that is sparking voter distrust so noticeable that even NPR is sounding the alarm. …

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#Letters to the Editor — May 9, 2021

#Letters to the Editor — May 9, 2021

“#Letters to the Editor — May 9, 2021” COVID uncertaintyThe Post editorial about herd immunity makes several good points, albeit within the context of general uncertainty about the virus (“We’re Still Beating COVID,” May 4). We have reason to be optimistic, but we have more work to do and still need to grasp the uncertainty…

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