By Robert Romano The Federal Reserve held the federal funds rate steady at 3.75 percent to 4 percent range following an interest rate hike in the face of sticky consumer and producer inflation data published by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, growing at 3.7 percent and 6.3 percent the […]

By Robert Romano As the Nov. 3 Election Day fast approaches, America’s regional power grids offer a revealing lesson in affordability and reliability. With nearly half of registered voters saying the cost of living will be the single most important factor in  deciding their vote this fall , Americans’ power bills are on […]

By Robert Romano Recent news reports paint a picture of the United Kingdom in the most unflattering light.  Throughout the nation, squads of police are literally attacking citizens who merely express an opinion that runs counter to the hyper-woke policies of the British government. These are not […]

By Robert Romano “Anywhere between 218 and 240 feels very viable.” That was Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) political director Brooke Butler  telling Politico she is very confident House Democrats will pick up between 3 and 25 seats in the November Congressional midterm elections as Democrats expand the map […]

By Robert Romano An additional 406,000 Americans said they had jobs in the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ September household survey , bring employment to 163.15 million. On the payroll side of the equation, employers (excluding the self-employed) reported a record 159.04 million persons employed , the most ever. President Donald Trump often touts the figure on the campaign trail in the 2026 Congressional midterm cycle, and […]

By Robert Romano Oil tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz reached a seven-day average of 13.5 million barrels per day, levels not seen since before the March 1 attack by the U.S. and Israel on Iran, and comes amid the continued U.S. naval blockade of Iranian […]

By Robert Romano It might all sound quite familiar: A president at 40 percent approval , inflation and the economy top issues in the polls and foreign wars driving up oil and gas prices. But the year was not 2026, it was 2022, and former President Joe Biden was in […]

By Robert Romano 2025 was a good year for American households, the latest data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows, with real household median income rising to $87,460 , the highest on record, while the percent of the population below the poverty line fell to 10.2 percent , a record low after 2019’s 10.5 percent. The news came even as the unemployment level rose slightly from 6.9 million in December 2024 […]

By Robert Romano “I am pleased to announce that the United States of America has entered into an Agreement with The Kingdom of Denmark, and Greenland, that gives the United States permanent control over security, and all other needs, in Greenland, completely addressing ALL of our many […]

By Robert Romano The Federal Reserve on Sept. 16 unsurprisingly and unanimously hiked the federal funds rate for the first time since July 2023 as disinflation from the post-Covid surge that began in 2021 was beginning to abate, a process that continued all the way to the […]

By Robert Romano In 1939, theoretical physicist Albert Einstein signed a letter by Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard to President Franklin Roosevelt to warn of advancements in nuclear energy and military technologies including by Nazi Germany, urging the U.S. to engage in its own research, that ultimately led to the formation of the Manhattan Project to build atomic weapons before Germany could. The Einstein-Szilard […]

By Robert Romano “My job is to fight for every single person in this room, every person watching at home, as if they were my own family, as if they were my own kin. And so, I don’t just want these things for my kids, I want […]

By Robert Romano “I would hate to see China win the war on AI… I have a sense that China is funding the opposition to AI [data] centers.” That was Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) in a Breitbart News interview on Aug. 31 warning that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) might be funding opposition to data […]

By Robert Romano Employment in the U.S. increased by 569,000 in August up to 162.7 million, according to the household survey published by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, while the unemployment rate held steady at 4.1 percent as the Congressional midterms rapidly approach in November, with elections for the entire […]

By Robert Romano “THE FAKE POLLS USED BY OUR CROOKED MEDIA ARE OUT OF CONTROL, AND SOMETHING MUST BE DONE ABOUT IT. FCC TO THE RESCUE!” That was President Donald Trump on Truth Social on Aug. 30 , suggesting the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) could be looking at television and radio over-the-air licenses for stations that […]

By Robert Romano Thanks to President Donald Trump’s leadership and the political risk he took in levying tariffs against U.S. trade partners to reindustrialize America, secure supply chains for domestic energy production and manufacturing and make new trade deals, the U.S. trade in goods deficit has shrunk by $181.7 billion to $534.8 billion […]

By Robert Romano Vice President J.D. Vance campaigned with Sen. Jon Husted (R-Ohio) and Republican candidate for Governor Vivek Ramaswamy at Middletown Works steel factory in Middletown, Ohio on Aug. 21 , carrying President Donald Trump’s message on trade, immigration, law and order into the 2026 Congressional midterms, where Husted faces a tough challenge from former Sen. Sherrod […]

By Robert Romano The national debt just surpassed $40 trillion for the first time. Bank of America recently projected it will hit $50 trillion by 2029 . Anyone who has read these columns over the years will find this to be of little surprise. Beginning in 2019, I started keeping a tally for when the debt would hit $100 trillion , based on the nominal growth of the debt versus the nominal growth of […]

By Robert Romano Democratic socialist Florida State Rep. Angie Nixon easily won the Democratic Party primary against Alex Vindman for the Florida Senate seat, 56.1 percent to 43.9 percent . Nixon now squares off against Sen. Ashley Moody (R-Fla.), who was appointed to the seat vacated by Secretary of State Marco Rubio […]

By Robert Romano “This is like maybe super heterodox… I am not sure that I think the reserve currency is actually good for the United States of America. I think there is a good argument that reserve currency status is akin to coal and Appalachia. It’s a […]

By Robert Romano “Almost all of these ships have their AIS transponders off so they are dark. They’re under escort… Plus, you’ve got to add the 6 million barrels a day that are being diverted via pipelines and those pipelines are being expanded as well. In round […]

By Robert Romano Consumer prices slowed again in July, growing 3.4 percent the past twelve months, or 0.1 percent for the month, after the U.S. and Iran resumed hostilities last month and then paused again for more diplomatic negotiations before President Donald Trump declared on August 12 the U.S. has “total control” over the Strait of Hormuz between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf […]

By Robert Romano Democrats have opened up a 7-point lead in the latest average of generic Congressional ballot polls compiled by RealClearPolling.com — 48.6 percent to 41.6 percent — and yet are only favored to win 205 seats in the House, while Republicans are favored to win 211 seats, according to the latest compilation by The Cook Political Report . Usually, the […]

By Robert Romano Don’t look now, but the employment level in the household survey has dropped six out of the past seven months by more than 1.8 million — as the unemployment rate sank again to 4.1 percent in July, down from 4.5 percent in November 2025, according to the latest data […]

By Robert Romano Abdul El-Sayed is now the Democratic Party nominee for the open Senate seat in Michigan with retiring Democratic Senator Gary Peters stepping aside after holding the seat since 2015. El-Sayed defeated Democratic U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens by a narrow 48.5 percent to 47.5 percent , and will now face former U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.), with El-Sayed running on […]