By A.F. Branco

By Robert Romano “[R]ecent trade deals, like the World Trade Organization trade deal, had no labor or environmental standards.” That was the AFL-CIO, objecting to fast track trade authority for the Obama administration to negotiate the Trans-Pacific Partnership and other trade agreements expected to come up in Congress next year. Labor groups object to free trade agreements because other nations refuse […]

By Rick Manning The free market miracle that is U.S. domestic energy production keeps going as domestic oil production, particularly that generated by hydraulic fracturing shale, has produced a massive economic stimulus. How much stimulus?  CNN/Money quotes Stephen Stanley, Chief Economist Amherst Pierpont as pinpointing it at $1 billion […]