It’s an election-winning formula that’s worked in the short term for politicians of both parties, critics note. Lots of spending and cheap money. As President Joe Biden runs huge deficits some wonder if the economy will eventually self-destruct. Popular economic policies, critics say, often seem successful in the short run but eventually turn toxic. And
Impeachment is easy. Governing is hard. That may be the lesson Democrats on Capitol Hill are about to learn as President-elect Biden prepares to take office. While the impeachment vote got most of the publicity, the biggest news of the past few days was Joe Biden’s prime-time TV rollout of his $1.9. trillion COVID-19 spending plan.
Month after dismal month, Americans have been inundated by an ever-rising tide of devastating numbers. Hundreds of thousands of deaths. Tens of million unemployed. By mid-December, five in every 100 Americans — more than 16 million — had been infected by COVID-19. Those numbers testify to a historic tragedy. But they don’t fully capture the
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