A new report in The Wall Street Journal unintentionally sheds light on what economists, including Lawrence Summers, have long known: Higher taxes reduce spending.

The political press is addicted to conflict and failure. If the White House wants to change the narrative, it’ll need to cut out the middlemen.

Two Washington Post articles this week suggest we’re “returning” to a time of savage inequality. Returning?!

Plenty has been out of his control. But the president has bungled a few things along the way.

Better “messaging” alone won’t shift the dire fundamentals of this midterm election.

Inflation, abortion rights, and rising childcare costs are the kinds of issues that motivate women to vote. But which party will they support once they get there?

Of course not. But that’s what they make as they profit from the inflation that’s hurting the middle class.

In an interview with The New Republic, Kansas’s lone Democrat says she’s focused on boosting the economic fortunes of her constituents and staving off the effects of inflation.

By virtually every objective measure, Democrats do better. It’s not even close. So why doesn’t America know it?

Covid initially drove wages up, especially for working-class people. But that’s over—another illustration of capital’s dethronement of labor.

The poorest Americans are feeling the biggest squeeze from rising prices. Alas, Congress allowed a program that might have helped them to expire last year.

The stock market understands that the current spike in consumer prices is war-related. Why can’t Chris Cillizza?

Despite conventional wisdom, the party is not doomed in November’s midterm elections. The economy, Covid-19, the invasion of Ukraine, and the January 6 insurrection are all wild cards.

We had it once, in the 1970s. Predicting its return is like predicting Japanese planes will again bomb Pearl Harbor.

High prices are likely to linger, but the worst thing Democrats up for reelection can do is to pretend the problem doesn’t exist.

An election-year proposal to save drivers a few bucks at the pumps might not be as great an idea as some Democrats think.

Some economists deny that “wage-price spirals” exist. They do. But we’re not in one. And in a way, that’s a shame.

Republicans who condemn the inflationary impact of Biden’s proposals won’t acknowledge the much more inflationary impact of confronting Russia over Ukraine.

Monopoly power didn’t cause inflation. Pretending it did undermines the fight to revive antitrust.

Oh, sure, they pretend to hate it. But inflation is a useful weapon against Democrats, and rich people and the business lobby benefit from it.