By Robert Romano “Citigroup: Trump win would cause immediate stock drop.” “A Trump win would sink stocks.” “Economists: A Trump win would tank the markets,” shrieks Politico. These are just some of the headlines the American people have been treated to in the closing days of the election cycle, all intended of course to inspire fear of a win by Donald Trump in the election. Basically, it’s just voter […]

By Robert Romano Marie Clintonette strikes again. Hillary Clinton really does support the Trans-Pacific Partnership. So says the campaign’s Labor Outreach Director Nikki Budzinski in a new Wikileaks email dated November 3, 2015 to campaign advisors that it was U.S. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Texas) who let the cat out of the bag. Budzinski was attempting to engage in damage control. “She claimed in the meeting that she […]

By Marita Noon Until Hurricane Matthew hit Haiti nearly a month ago, on October 4, the impoverished island country was out of the headlines — pushed aside by election news. But new emails which were obtained through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by the […]

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 […]