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You Can Earn Millions of Dollars and Pay NO Taxes
1+ hour, 47+ min ago (143+ words) Sounds like the beginning of an old Steve Martin comedy routine, but this is real and it isn't funny. National hospital chain, Quorum Health, is moving its assets into a "nonprofit" entity so that it can milk government spending programs…...
About That Trump Affordability Crisis
2+ week, 3+ day ago (16+ words) Unleash Prosperity FROM THEUnleash Prosperity Hotline About That Trump Affordability Crisis...
Where Is Inflation Headed Next?
3+ week, 1+ day ago (285+ words) Time to review some of our favorite lead indicators on how high inflation will go. These stats point in different directions, but for the next six months, inflation is likely to remain above the 2% Fed target, which doesn't argue for…...
Angry About High Prices? Blame Biden and Big Government!
3+ week, 1+ day ago (607+ words) The new consumer prices report showing a 3. 8% price rise in April confirms what Americans have been complaining about for months: Inflation is continuing to squeeze family budgets. It's indisputable that oil and fertilizer supply disruptions in the Middle East are…...
Can Robots Double U. S. GDP?
4+ week, 1+ hour ago (81+ words) Unleash Prosperity Brett Adcock is the CEO of Figure, which is "an AI Robotics company developing a general purpose humanoid that will do the drudgery work for everyone." It's hard to know who to believe about this future and we…...
Europe Wants to Soak the Rich " Those Who Still Live There
4+ week, 1+ day ago (208+ words) A new EU report on taxation in Europe tries to tackle the issue of making the tax system "fairer." The report laments that: a) Europe is losing its share of millionaires and billionaires and b) despite high taxes rates, the rich in…...
Time for Jerome Powell to Go Home
4+ week, 2+ day ago (678+ words) The man just won't leave the stage. Fed Chairman Jerome Powell announced last week that he's going to remain on the Federal Reserve Board until 2028 even as he by law surrenders his chairmanship. The announcement came even after President Donald…...
Prices Controls Will Deny Millions of Americans Credit Cards
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (668+ words) There's a famous scene in the movie "The Graduate" in which a young Dustin Hoffman receives this one-word bit of career advice from a businessman: "plastics." He wasn't talking about credit cards, but he might as well have been. Back…...
Make Japan Pay Their Fair Share for Drugs, Mr. President
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (169+ words) Donald Trump will soon meet with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi. Near the top of the agenda should be an effort to secure a pledge from her to ease Japan's price controls on US-made brand drugs. UP senior fellow Tomas…...
The High Price of Biden's SPR Follies
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (271+ words) We are not big fans of having a strategic petroleum reserve." Private markets can and should stockpile reserves." But since we have one, Trump is right to draw down the SPR now at a world price of $80 to $100 a barrel....