09.08.2026

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 […]
09.07.2026

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 […]
09.01.2026

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 […]
08.27.2026

By Bill Wilson Vice President J.D. Vance’s recent speech in Ohio has precipitated snide insults and the expected attacks from the usual suspects. Looking for any flaw or the most remote string to pull possible, these clinging zealots of the debunked “free trade” chorus reacted by called […]
08.20.2026

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 […]
08.17.2026

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 […]
08.12.2026

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 […]
08.12.2026

By Manzanita Miller U.S. manufacturing is entering a strong recovery thanks to President Donald Trump’s two-pronged approach to using tariffs and tax incentives to stimulate economic growth, with a key manufacturing survey revealing that manufacturing industry employment expanded in July for the first time in 33 months. […]
08.07.2026

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 […]
07.28.2026

By Manzanita Miller The party that purports to be the champion of human rights will stop at nothing to oppose the Trump administration, with over 90 percent of Democrats, liberals, and Kamala Harris voters rejecting President Trump’s crackdown on countries using forced slave labor. On July 23, […]