Joel Griffith
@joelgriffith
@AmericanFreedom senior fellow | co-chair @YJConservatives | @Heritage @ALEC_states @NACoTweets alum | free market economist | attorney | views my own 🇺🇸🇮🇱
May Israel achieve absolute victory over the Iranian terrorist regime. And may the United States always stand with Israel. Am Yisrael Chai! 🇮🇱

Great turnout today on Capitol Hill for our Tariffs 101 briefing today! With 100+ staffers in attendance, @DavidBahnsen, @PhilWMagness, @DominicJPino, and AAF Chairman @marctshort broke down everything to know about the tariff issue.
Stellantis just warned of a $2.7B loss—blaming early fallout from U.S. tariffs. Shipments down. Costs up. And this is just the beginning. Tariffs are hurting the very industries they are advertised as helping. cnbc.com/2025/07/21/ste…
Ed Feulner built institutions in support of American values. The Heritage founder lamented the right’s turn against free markets and U.S. global leadership, writes @Mike_Pence on.wsj.com/4eZvmli
“The young Republicans in Washington may not know it, but they are spending down the intellectual capital stockpiled by Ed Feulner and his generation.” Yep wsj.com/opinion/edwin-… via @WSJopinion
Ed Feulner Built Institutions in Support of American Values. The @Heritage founder lamented the right’s turn against free markets and U.S. global leadership.— @Mike_Pence’s tribute to an American hero in @WSJopinion wsj.com/opinion/ed-feu…
Ed Feulner didn’t need to be the face of the movement. He was its backbone. Now, the burden falls to the rest of us – to build, to train, to equip, and to lead. | @TimChapman trib.al/unKSGOy
TPUSA “special guest” raising money for self-defined fascist (that’s the “us”). Just another day.
Six months after Japanese billionaire Masayoshi Son stood shoulder to shoulder with Sam Altman and President Trump to announce the Stargate project, the newly formed company charged with making it happen has yet to complete a single deal for a data center. wsj.com/tech/ai/softba…
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The Soviets abolished weekends. Instead they created a rolling 5 day week so that factories were always open. Workers would get time off on different days so they couldn't be sure their day off would overlap with that of their spouse or friends. eyeondesign.aiga.org/a-failed-sovie…
You don’t hate Mondays.. you hate being exploited by capitalism
SOFTBANK–OPENAI $500B “STARGATE” AI PROJECT FALTERS AMID FINANCING CONCERNS - WSJ
I plugged the estimate for OBBB into the latest baseline. In 2034, spending will be 23.8% of GDP and revenue will be 17.1%. For comparison, from 1969-2019 we averaged spending of 20.3% and revenue of 17.4%. Deficits are still overwhelmingly driven by elevated spending!
Estimated Budgetary Effects of Public Law 119-21, to Provide for Reconciliation Pursuant to Title II of H. Con. Res. 14, Relative to CBO’s January 2025 Baseline cbo.gov/publication/61…
Ed Feulner didn’t just build up institutions, he cultivated a movement. In today’s @WSJ, Vice President @Mike_Pence reflects on his friend, mentor, and the timeless values Ed Feulner fought to preserve.
JUST IN: Raising taxes leads to higher tax revenue.
“The dollar declining softens tariffs completely,” says @howardlutnick 😝😝 In fact, the plunge in the value of the dollar this year makes imports even MORE expensive. Price hikes— especially on imports—are becoming noticeable.
BRENNAN: I was asking you about consumer prices & what people will pay when they go to the store LUTNICK: They'll be shockingly low BRENNAN: But The CPI doesn't currently reflect that. The trend is to higher prices LUTNICK: What did it go up, a tenth of a percent? BRENNAN:…
An entire WSJ article about why US soda-makers don't use cane sugar (spoiler: we don't "make enough" lol) and not a single mention of highly-restrictive US sugar quotas that keep prices here WAY above global levels? Cmon, man. wsj.com/business/the-p…
I may agree on "Cleveland Indians" (not entirely sure about "Redskins"). But I also think this: A U.S. president should not involve himself in every nook and cranny of American life. I learned this from conservatives, way back. They were, of course, right. apnews.com/article/trump-…