By Peter Hong Remember the cool kids in school: the jock or cheerleader — with rich parents to boot? They had everything handed to them: awards, popularity, status. They hung out together at all the right parties and in all the right cliques, strengthening their […]

By Natalia Castro Government officials take an oath of office to protect the securities of the American people, contractors do not. Yet for some of our most sensitive tax records and information, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has employed third party contractors to pursue investigations; […]

By Robert Romano In 2012, 4.4 million seniors were enrolled in the Medicaid program, primarily for long-term nursing home or home and community care, according to the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission . Almost twice that number were on some form of long-term care — 8.3 million according to the Center for Disease Control — about comprising almost 20 percent of the 41.9 million […]

By Rick Manning As originally published at http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/03/17/will-be-adults-or-children-ugly-truth-about-americas-spending.html You can already hear the howling. Oh the humanity, Trump is killing Big Bird. The world is in danger of climate destruction, Trump is ending payments to the Green Climate Fund that pays off foreign governments to support radical environmental […]

By Robert Romano The debt ceiling is back. On March 15, Congress’ suspension of the debt ceiling ended, just as the national debt appears poised to top $20 trillion for the first time in U.S. history. What that means is the federal government cannot borrow any more […]

By Robert Romano The S&P 500 is up 9.5 percent since Nov. 9, 2016, a big jump for global stocks and asset prices that has already been touted the Trump rally, but is it for real? So early into President Donald Trump’s first year in office, naturally, it is […]

By Robert Romano Since 2000, the nearly $20 trillion national debt has exploded, growing a whopping 7.7 percent a year. But nominally — prior to adjusting for inflation — the U.S. economy has only grown at an average annual 3.94 percent rate. If those trends persist during the Trump administration, the debt could […]

By Robert Romano The past decade was the worst economy from a growth perspective in U.S. history. All the economy could manage was a pitiful 1.3316 percent average, inflation-adjusted growth a year. That was worse 1930 through 1939 at 1.3334 percent a year, according to data compiled by the Bureau of Economic Analysis . The slowdown runs […]

By Natalia Castro As the legislative branch begins considering ways to use the power of the purse, President Donald Trump’s newly appointed White House Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney is weighing options on ways to cut $4 trillion U.S. budget. The New York Times released what […]

By Rick Manning What exactly was President Donald Trump doing at the Boeing plant in Charleston, South Carolina on Feb. 17? The simple answer is getting out of Washington and back to real America for a victory lap.  He had much to celebrate in his first month […]