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 […]

By Robert Romano The consumer price index fell 0.2 percent in September, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported last week, led by continued energy price declines. All told, energy is down 18.4 percent in the past year, says the Bureau. Gasoline was off almost 30 percent. So is electricity, slightly, down 0.4 percent. […]

By Robert Romano On Sept. 10, the House Ways and Means Committee marked up legislation by U.S. Rep. Tom McClintock (R-Calif.), the Default Prevention Act, which seeks to prioritize payments of principal and interest owed on the $18.1 trillion national debt in the event the statutory debt limit is reached. Conceptually […]

By Robert Romano From 1985 through 2011, an average 11.7 percent of seniors were enrolled in Medicaid, primarily for long-term nursing home or home and community care, according to data compiled by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Bureau of Labor Statistics . Keep that stat in mind, because if it remains true, as […]

By Dustin Howard Fifty years ago, on Sept. 22, 1965, the Great Society reached its apex with the Senate’s passage of the Immigration and Naturalization Acts of 1965. The Great Society sought to change the way we aided the elderly and the poor — and our […]

By Matthew Kandrach Next to healthcare and medicine, no budget item hits seniors in the pocketbook more than food. While fixed incomes remain fixed, grocery bills do not, and receipts at the checkout counter are getting a lot bigger these days. Take the price of […]

By Rick Manning Is capitalism the “devil’s dung” or is it the only moral choice? There are those who look at income disparity in countries that practice some level of a free market oriented economy and decry that some have more wealth and make more money than […]

By Robert Romano Emerging markets, and not monetary policy, appear to have dictated the rapid expansion of commodities prices since at least the 2000s. As demand rose overseas in China, Brazil and elsewhere, prices of everything from food to oil to metals increased. And now that those […]