By Rick Manning

By Robert Romano On Friday, Oct. 21, a massive attack against Dyn, which handles domain name system resolution for large websites like Twitter, SoundCloud, Spotify, Reddit and others, severely disrupted Internet traffic while the company got a handle on the problem. According to a company statement from Dyn , “At this point we know […]

By Nathan Mehrens As originally published at http://www.investors.com/politics/commentary/government-sides-with-unions-over-businesses-again/ If you don’t show up for work and are permanently replaced can your employer get in trouble? According to the general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the answer is yes. In a case currently pending […]

By Robert Romano Struggling economies China, Japan, Singapore and oil exporters like Mexico, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have dumped more than $225 billion of U.S. treasuries the past year as the global economy slowed down amid lax demand for cheap goods and petroleum, data compiled by the U.S. Treasury shows . […]

By Rick Manning As originally published at http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/finance/301126-sorry-allstate-ceo-profit-is-the-only-responsibility-of-a Newsflash: The vice chairman of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce doesn’t believe that corporations’ reason to exist is to make a profit, and referred to Milton Friedman’s legacy of profit-driven progress as “dangerous” in a Washington Post op-ed . The column […]

By Rick Manning Both political parties love to tell the story about how the U.S. government balanced its budget during the 1990s, with Bill Clinton and then Speaker Newt Gingrich sharing the credit. There is only one problem with this story — the national debt kept going […]

By Nathan Mehrens As originally published at http://www.investors.com/politics/commentary/obamas-consumer-board-takes-a-hard-shot-from-federal-court/ On Tuesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit struck down the structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Due to the court’s holding, the plan of congressional Democrats and President Obama to place consumer financial […]

By Robert Romano “My dream is a hemispheric common market, with open trade and open borders, some time in the future with energy that is as green and sustainable as we can get it, powering growth and opportunity for every person in the hemisphere.” That was Hillary Clinton in a paid speech to Brazil-based Banco Itau in 2013 , now released […]

By Robert Romano 9.8 percent. That’s what the unemployment rate would be if 16 to 64 year olds were working at the same rate they were two decades ago in 1997, when labor participation among working age adults was 77.4 percent. Now it’s down to 73.2 percent, […]

By Robert Romano As originally published at https://www.lifezette.com/polizette/voters-in-key-swing-state-agree-faulty-trade-deals-bad-for-jobs/ A whopping 59 percent of Virginians in a new poll agree with the statement: “We can bring jobs back to America by reducing our nation’s participation in trade deals that make it easy for other countries to flood our markets […]