Columns by Peter Morici
Should the Democrats win both runoff elections in Georgia and gain control of the Senate, President-elect Joe Biden and Democratic leaders will come under considerable pressure from their more radical party members to pack the U.S. Supreme Court.
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December 13, 2020
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America has imposed a cruel hoax on its children -- the notion that college is essential for prosperous life.
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December 8, 2020
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Democrats sought to fundamentally restructure American democracy -- pack the Senate by granting statehood to a federal district one-eighteenth the size of Rhode Island and turn the U.S. Supreme Court into a House of Lords.
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December 4, 2020
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"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times," the oft-quoted opening line from "A Tale of Two Cities," is an apt description of the American economy. And we know how those times ended -- in revolution.
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December 1, 2020
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Voters have chosen the moderate Joe Biden who won the Democratic primaries, but by sending more Republicans to Congress and statehouses, they rejected the radical Joe Biden.
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November 29, 2020
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Presumed President-elect Joe Biden will be terribly constrained. The country can't afford massive new programs without big deficits or taxes a Republican Senate won't permit.
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November 24, 2020
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In the recent elections, Americans expressed with considerable clarity they are not receptive to the radical agenda embraced by Democrats since Elizabeth Warren and Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez stormed Washington.
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November 18, 2020
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President-elect Joe Biden ran on a platform to address climate change, remedy inequality, resurrect the economy and implement a more focused COVID-19 strategy.
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November 15, 2020
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President-elect Joe Biden won by renting a platform from left-wing Democrats and then going awfully vague on how he will address the nation's existential challenges -- pandemics, climate change mitigation and China.
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November 11, 2020
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Joe Biden captured the Democratic nomination with strong support from party elders earned by running as a moderate. Once nominated, he embraced more radical ideas from rivals like Bernie Sanders to unify his party.
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November 9, 2020
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House Democrats are on the warpath -- Facebook, Amazon, Apple and Google (FAAG) are the targets.
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November 4, 2020
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Europe and America are like an estranged couple -- love lost and the premise for the marriage fading into memory. Europeans may cheer a Biden victory, but it won't remove irreconcilable differences and dysfunctions.
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October 28, 2020
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Investors should look beyond the turmoil of the next few months and stick with stocks.
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October 19, 2020
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Whether it's President Trump or Joe Biden, the White House -- and Federal Reserve -- face another tough year in 2021.
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October 12, 2020
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It's high time to fully reopen the American economy, but that requires more than the Federal Reserve printing money to finance business debt and government deficits.
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October 5, 2020
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America may well be headed for electoral chaos and not since the contested election of John Quincy Adams in 1824 could the resolution be so divisive.
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September 30, 2020
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The president's primary responsibilities are to protect national security and enable inclusive prosperity. Mr. Trump's record and Biden's facile vision make the incumbent the better choice.
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September 23, 2020
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The nation's unemployment insurance system is broken. The Financial Crisis and COVID-19 made painfully clear that it poorly serves our front-line workers and inadequately boosts consumer spending during recessions.
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September 15, 2020
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Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell recently announced with much fanfare that the Federal Reserve would tolerate periods of inflation above 2% to compensate for failing to reach that target much of the last two decades.
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September 7, 2020
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Joe Biden, like European Social Democrats, makes few bows to the mandates of the marketplace.
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September 1, 2020
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