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 […]

By Robert Romano A generation removed from the Cold War, and four from World War II, and suddenly alternatives to capitalism don’t look so bad to America’s youth, a poll by Cato Institute-Morning Consult taken June 25 to June 26 found , with 53 percent of Generation Z, those born between 1997 to 2012, viewing socialism favorably. Only 23 percent […]

By Robert Romano The Democratic Party is under siege by socialists — and so will the United States if they ever acquire power. “We are workers fighting to transform society: to win the battle for democracy, draft a new constitution, and create a democratic socialist republic.” That […]

By Robert Romano For years, Washington let a critical federal healthcare program  morph into something Congress never intended. What began as a lifeline for vulnerable patients has slowly become a multibillion-dollar windfall for powerful hospitals , with too little transparency, too little accountability, and far too many opportunities for abuse. Politicians ignored the warning signs […]

By Robert Romano “[A]lthough it pains me to do so, because of the respect I have for the legislative branch of government and my decades long record of cooperating with Congress, under the advice of my attorneys, I will invoke my right under the Fifth Amendment of […]

By Robert Romano President Donald Trump is asking the Senate to abolish the Senate filibuster and adopt the SAVE America Act to get illegal aliens off of the voter rolls and to require proof of citizenship to register to vote from now on, citing over  250,000 non-citizens are illegally registered to vote in California, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Nevada  alone. So far, the Senate is […]

By Robert Romano Don’t look now but so-called democratic socialist U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) has jumped to a slight lead in the Democratic primary in New Hampshire, edging out Pete Buttigieg 22 percent to 21 percent, according to the latest University of New Hampshire poll taken between July 15 and July 20. The shift in […]