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Mexico's cartel violence haunts civilians in the lead-up to June elections
Cartel violence haunted the central Mexican town of Huitzilac days after a mass shooting claimed the lives of eight men. The shooting coincides with a larger wave of violence leading up to Mexico's
To the editor: Inflation playing role in presidential election
The late economist John Kenneth Galbraith once lamented that he didn’t realize the president of the United States was responsible for price stability. Joe Biden now knows what Professor Galbraith was talking about. For the first time since 1980 inflation will play a significant role in determining who will be sworn in as president on the Capitol steps on Jan. 20, 2025. In 1976 Jimmy Carter popularized a metric called the “Misery Index.” It consisted of adding the inflation rate and the unemployment rate together to gauge the relative strength of the U.S. economy. It would come back to haunt Carter in 1980 as the economy had gone from bad to worse. Submit a letter to the editor The 1970s was a decade characterized by high inflation rates and stagnant productivity gains. By 1968, the “guns and butter” economy of LBJ’s Great Society began to see significant inflation creeping into the economy, although underlying growth remained strong. Richard Nixon narrowly defeated Hubert Humphrey in 1968, and to the surprise of many, Nixon put his imprimatur on many of the Great Society programs Republicans so reviled and thought inflationary. Medicare was here to stay.
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