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  • Suddenly the Democrats Want an Independent Fed

    09/01/2025 3:36:10 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 7 replies
    Wall Street Journal ^ | Aug. 31, 2025 11:06 am ET | Allysia Finley
    They politicized the central bank under Obama and Biden, including by appointing Lisa Cook.It’s hard not to gag over the dirges in the press for the Federal Reserve’s “independence.” Or the encomiums to Gov. Lisa Cook, the Biden appointee President Trump fired last week, who has become a martyr for a cause Democrats didn’t much care about when they were in charge of Washington. “How the Future of the Fed Came to Rest on Lisa Cook” was a front-page New York Times headline on Saturday. Please. Democrats during the Obama and Biden presidencies tried to co-opt the central bank to...
  • A Good Man for U.S. Manufacturing is Hard to Find

    04/06/2025 5:26:30 PM PDT · by untenured · 110 replies
    The Wall Street Journal ^ | April 6, 2025 | Alysia Finley
    President Trump proclaims his tariffs will bring manufacturing jobs back to the U.S. Good luck finding workers to fill them. A common lament among employers, especially manufacturers, is they can’t find reliable, conscientious workers who can pass a drug test. Single women might commiserate: A good worker, like a good man, can be hard to find these days. Blame government, which showers benefits on able-bodied people who don’t work while at the same time subsidizing college degrees that don’t lead to productive employment. The result is millions of idle men and millions of unfilled jobs—what an economist would call a...
  • Trump Voters: Not So Irrational: (Political scientist who applies the ‘rational choice’ theory... )

    05/07/2016 11:37:34 AM PDT · by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies · 38 replies
    The WallStreet Journal ^ | May 6, 2016 | Allysia Finley
    The political scientist who applies the ‘rational choice’ theory of economics to voters says there was a method to the GOP’s primary madness. Go to the source: