By Robert Romano Is the Federal Reserve about to hike its key interest rate on Wednesday from near-zero percent that has been in place since 2008? “The Federal Reserve will likely raise interest rates this week,” the Washington Post’s Ylan Q. Mui confidently predicts in Wonkblog . “Federal Reserve set to raise rates in ‘historic’ moment for […]

By Robert Romano “To simply provide jobs for those who are newly entering the labor force probably requires under 100,000 jobs per month.” That was Federal Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen testifying on Dec. 3 in front of Congress’ Joint Economic Committee , telling lawmakers why, demographically, nobody should really expect the economy to produce nearly as many jobs as it once did in decades past. […]

By Robert Romano 2.2 percent. That is what the annualized, inflation-adjusted growth rate of the economy is so far after three quarters in 2015, the Bureau of Economic Analysis reports . To get 3 percent growth for the year — a milestone the U.S. has not achieved since 2005 — the economy will […]

By Robert Romano The start of the Christmas shopping season kicks off on November 27. Known as Black Friday, the day retailers are said to go “in the black” after being “in the red” all year long. Only, it is not what it used to be, and […]

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By Robert Romano Click here to tell Congress to reject the Trans-Pacific Partnership! Pee-yew. Or better yet, PU — a Pacific Union — is the number one reason to oppose the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal , warns U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.). “This new structure is known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership Commission — a Pacific Union — which meets, appoints […]

Nov. 9, 2015, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement applauding Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) for coming out in favor of a zero for zero approach to eliminating U.S. sugar subsidies : “Sen. Rubio has exactly the right approach to zero for zero sugar subsidies policies , which is to say, the U.S. should get rid of its subsidies when […]

By Rick Manning Click here to tell Congress to reject the Trans-Pacific Partnership! The Trans-Pacific Partnership , released on Nov. 5, which regulates 40 percent of the global economy, will continue to outsource American jobs overseas, fail to do anything about currency manipulation, and once adopted, will create an international, unelected commission with broad authority to implement and interpret the […]

By Rick Manning As published at http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2015/10/28/beware-america-president-obama-has-put-politics-into-your-pensions.html The federal government is going to allow retirement investments to be subjected to politically correct funny business due to a new guidance issued by the U.S. Labor Department that puts the government’s thumb on the scale in favor of so-called “socially […]

By Nathan Mehrens Recently, a well-organized public relations campaign was launched to convince the public that the practice of tipping is “wrong.” The source of the moral authority that has proclaimed this practice to be “wrong” is fuzzy to say the least, but let’s examine the […]