By Robert Romano Bad news. Unemployment increased in the U.S. by 203,000 in February as 588,000 fewer people reported having jobs, according to the latest data by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) household survey . That means the economy is slowing down, as has been expected after overheating from high inflation for four years as a result of global production […]

By Manzanita Miller President Donald Trump is locked in a lengthy battle with a slate of foreign-aid recipients dead-set on unlocking billions of dollars in U.S. taxpayer money, after his executive order last month temporarily froze the foreign-aid spigot until his administration could vet the process. Trump […]

By Manzanita Miller For at least a decade mainstream culture has been obsessively preoccupied with forwarding a distinctly left-wing “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” (DEI) agenda, and that agenda has heavily permeated the business world.   While encouraging a diverse workforce sounds good in theory, the reality is […]

By Robert Romano Ukraine is ready to come back to the negotiating table a day after President Donald Trump froze military aid to the country, Trump reported in his joint address to Congress on March 4 . Trump read from a March 4 letter from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that was posted to X aloud to Congress, stating, “Ukraine is ready to come to the negotiating table […]

By Robert Romano The Atlanta Federal Reserve on March 3 has again issued its GDP Now projection , finding the U.S. economy could be contracting at an inflation-adjusted, annualized 2.8 percent rate for the first quarter of 2025. That is down further from its Feb. 28 projection of negative 1.5 […]

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By Robert Romano “What kind of diplomacy, J.D., [are you] speaking about?” That was Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky interrupting the question-and-answer portion of a Feb. 28 Oval Office meeting with President Donald Trump, Vice President J.D. Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and other senior officials that was to precede Zelensky signing a […]

  By Bill Wilson While it may not be top news around much of the country, in the Washington, D.C. area the staffing cuts in various federal government offices are all consuming. This is neither surprising nor without merit. With 375,000 federal workers in the D.C. Metro […]

By Manzanita Miller   Activist judges are working overtime this week to block President Donald Trump’s America First priorities and stop the president from curbing government spending and putting a pause on refugee resettlement. In a significant blow to President Trump’s agenda, a Seattle-based federal judge blocked the […]

By Robert Romano Don’t look now, but the Atlanta Federal Reserve’s GPDNow estimate for the first quarter of 2025 shows the U.S. economy potentially contracting 1.5 percent annualized. Coupled with initial jobless claims peaking up to 242,000 the past week, a good question to ask is whether President Donald Trump inherited a recession from the […]