By Robert Romano Baby Boomers led the march out of the civilian labor force in the past year, data published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics show. Those not in the labor force increased by 1.9 million from 90.6 million to 92.5 million since September 2013 using non-seasonally adjusted numbers. 70.5 percent of them, 1.3 million, were […]

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By Richard Manning A strange thing happened upon examining an obscure report issued by the federal government’s Office of Personnel Management on how much money and personnel hours are spent conducting labor union business by taxpayer funded employees. It was discovered that the National Labor Relations Board, an agency whose reason for being is to ensure that […]

By Robert Romano “The Congress shall have power to… establish [a] uniform rule of naturalization.” One of the few constitutionally enumerated responsibilities of the federal government is to secure the nation’s borders and ports of entry, and to provide consistent rules for entering the country, as in […]

By Rick Manning America is in crisis. Vice President Joe Biden laid out the various challenges facing our nation in a speech given at Harvard University citing the U.S. – China relationship, Islamic State thugs, Russia’s aggression against the Ukraine and Ebola. There are obviously many other crises that […]

By Robert Romano “The court holds that the IRS rule is arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion or otherwise not in accordance with law… in excess of statutory jurisdiction, authority, or limitations, or short of statutory right… or otherwise is an invalid implementation of the [Affordable Care […]

By Tom Toth National Public Radio (NPR) has, again, come under fire for their leftist agenda by way of an activist employee. This time, the employee chided Chris Gibson, a career officer in the United States Army, for “[living] off the taxpayers,” saying that he should “find a real job like the rest of […]

By Rick Manning If there is any part of government that America assumed, indeed prayed, works it is the Secret Service.  These very special men and women whose sworn duty is to protect the President and Vice President of the United States have had a very bad […]

By Robert Romano One of mainstays in the postwar economy, and in particular, the post-gold standard economy after 1971 has been the dollar’s unchallenged status as the world’s reserve currency. It has been called the exorbitant privilege . At the time, as the story goes, to help resolve to the 1973 oil shock, Richard Nixon convinced Saudi Arabia to only accept dollars for payment of oil in return for protecting […]

By Robert Romano “This is what happens when prices go up, it’s elementary.” That was Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Shiller on CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street,” explaining how if home prices rise too fast, it can have an adverse impact on home sales as they become increasingly unaffordable. And then, it eventually impacts on home […]