04.30.2024

By Robert Romano Vice President Kamala Harris on April 29 began a multi-state Economic Opportunity Tour in Atlanta, Ga. directed at shoring up black voters in swing states who will be essential to President Joe Biden’s bid to reelected in November. In Nov. 2020, in the last Economist-YouGov poll taken before the election , then-candidate Biden was viewed very favorably by 50 percent black voters and somewhat favorably […]
04.29.2024

By Robert Romano “If birth rates continue to plummet, human civilization will end.” That was X, Tesla and SpaceX owner Elon Musk, pointing out on X on April 28 the obvious math involved with plummeting fertility rates in countries all over the world, and reacting to the latest birth rate numbers from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) , wherein the numbers have dropped to 1.61 […]
04.18.2024

By Robert Romano In the latest Emerson poll showing former President Donald Trump leading incumbent President Joe Biden by 3 points, 46 percent to 43 percent, a remarkable 5.5 percent of 2020 Biden voters now say they are supporting Trump in 2024. Comparatively only 0.9 percent of 2020 Trump voters […]
04.17.2024

By Manzanita Miller Despite having upside-down approval ratings on virtually all key issues – including strong negative rankings on immigration, the economy, foreign policy, and crime – President Joe Biden is supposedly closing the gap against former President Donald Trump. A blistering new poll from the New York […]
04.17.2024

By Rick Manning Ken Griffin, founder and 80 percent owner of the hedge fund Citadel LLC, warned his investors, “As we have cautioned over the past year, the surging U.S. public debt is a growing concern that cannot be overlooked.” It seems these types of warnings happen over […]
04.16.2024

By Robert Romano Job openings have collapsed more than 3.4 million, or 28 percent since March 2022 when they peaked at 12.1 million, now down to about 8.7 million. That’s a massive drop-off but there’s still more job openings than unemployed as since that time, the number of unemployed has […]
04.10.2024

By Robert Romano Consumer inflation in the U.S. once again spiked upward to 3.5 percent over the last 12 months, or 0.4 percent the past month in March, according to the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics . The news comes as the Federal Reserve had been anticipating reducing the Federal Funds Rate this year as inflation had slowed down to 3.2 percent in February, but […]
04.08.2024

By Robert Romano Don’t look now, but inflation might not automatically return to below 2 percent before it starts going up again, and it could lead to much higher interest rates, JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon is warning in a letter to his company’s shareholders. In the letter, […]
04.05.2024

By Manzanita Miller The latest Wall Street Journal poll drives home the point that Americans strongly dispute the White House’s rosy picture of the economy, and that disconnect could cost President Joe Biden heavily in November. Trump leads Biden in six of seven battleground states – […]