EJ Antoni is a public finance economist and the Richard F. Aster research fellow in The Heritage Foundation's Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget.
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America’s financial mismanagement has gotten so bad that some say our country’s decline is now inevitable, drawing parallels to the Roman Empire’s collapse. That comparison… Read More
EconomyCommentary
In October 2021, I warned that the inflationary fallout from Bidenomics would lead to an increase in labor unrest and strikes. Two years later, we have the biggest… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Every major economic downturn of the last 110 years bears the mark of the Federal Reserve. In fact, as long as the Fed has been around, it has… Read More
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Jared Bernstein has once again demonstrated his complete ignorance of both economic theory and fact—an alarming trait for the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers…. Read More
EconomyCommentary
The labor market is nowhere near as strong as it appears. If that sounds surprising, it’s because the absence of millions of Americans from the workforce… Read More
EconomyCommentary
The middle class is demonstrably worse off under President Joe Biden, but that hasn’t stopped him from spending 40% of his presidency on vacation. Many Americans… Read More
EconomyCommentary
All around the nation can be found the detritus of “Bidenomics,” especially in America’s broken housing market. Countless families are struggling just to find somewhere… Read More
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Is America really in a manufacturing renaissance? Far from it. U.S. manufacturing is hemorrhaging, and the numbers the Biden administration uses to claim otherwise are… Read More
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People have to accept that inflation has made them poorer. At least that’s what an economist for the Bank of England recently said. Central bankers… Read More
EnergyCommentary
President Joe Biden’s latest push for electric vehicles is reminiscent of a soliloquy by Don Quixote: short on facts, long on rhetoric, and filled with unrealistic… Read More
