By Robert Romano Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is under enormous pressure from his Democratic colleagues not to confirm whoever President Donald Trump may nominate to replace the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court before the election. But in truth, there is simply no […]

By Robert Romano Have Joe Biden and Democratic Party leaders convinced their own voters that it is unsafe to go out to the polls and vote in 2020 because of the deadly Chinese coronavirus? According to an Aug. 9-12 poll by Wall Street Journal/NBC News, 47 percent of […]

By Robert Romano The stage is already set for President Donald Trump to nominate the replacement for the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the Supreme Court, even though it is an election year. Former President Barack Obama set that precedent in 2016. In Feb. 2016, when Antonin […]

By Robert Romano Another 1 million Americans left continued unemployment claims the week of Sept. 5 on an unadjusted basis, the latest data from the Department of Labor shows. That brings the number collecting unemployment from its 13.8 million Aug. 29 level, and from its 22.8 million May 9 […]

By Robert Romano In May, the Department of Labor Inspector General warned that the new pandemic unemployment assistance program passed by Congress in the $2 trillion CARES Act earlier this year, because of a flimsy self-certification requirement for individuals to receive benefits immediately, “will lead to increased improper payments and […]

By Robert Romano Former Vice President Joe Biden is promising to implement the Green New Deal, setting a national target for 2035 to cut carbon emissions in half in a move that would end the fossil fuel industry for transportation and electricity as we know it. That means […]

By Robert Romano The state of California accounts for 22 percent of all regular unemployment claims and a whopping 49 percent of all pandemic unemployment claims, despite only accounting for 15.2 percent of the working age U.S. population , data from the Department of Labor shows. In an unusual explosion of activity, 4.4 million of its 6.97 […]

By Robert Romano Schools across America have begun the 2020-2021 academic year, but approximately 67 percent of students in a snapshot of 19.6 million students in the 100 largest school districts in the U.S. are utilizing remote learning only to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Education Week . Those children […]

By Robert Romano Citigroup Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Morgan Stanley are underwriting part of what could be a $40 billion initial public offering (IPO) for Ant Group Co. in Hong Kong and Shanghai, which China-controlled megacorporation Alibaba owns a 33 percent share of, raising concerns that […]

By Robert Romano President Donald Trump has received a definite bump in polls following the presidential nominating conventions, including his acceptance speech for the Republican nomination at the White House on Aug. 27. The latest NBC-Marist poll conducted Aug. 31 to Sept. 6 shows President Trump and former Vice […]

By Robert Romano The U.S. economy added another 3.7 million jobs in the month of August, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ household survey of Americans reporting they have jobs, bringing the total up to 13.8 million jobs that have been recovered since labor markets bottomed in April, […]

By Robert Romano “Portland is a mess, and it has been for many years. If this joke of a mayor doesn’t clean it up, we will go in and do it for them!” That was President Donald Trump on Twitter renewing his warning to Oregon Democratic Governor Kate Brown […]

By Robert Romano President Donald Trump appears to be pulling ahead of former Vice President Joe Biden in the battleground, rust belt states of Michigan and Wisconsin , according to two polls by the Trafalgar Group, the polling firm that correctly called the 2016 election for Trump in the […]

By Robert Romano President Donald Trump has once again accepted the Republican nomination for President with the promise to fully reopen America as 2.9 million Americans have left continued unemployment claims in the past month, according to the latest data from the Department of Labor. As of […]

By Robert Romano Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s speech from Jerusalem for the Republican National Convention sent a strong signal to the American people and the world about the U.S. and President Donald Trump’s strong commitment to U.S. ally, Israel, strengthening diplomatic relations among her neighbors and opposing […]