Fast-track trade authority is heating up in Congress, and Americans for Limited Government has issued a paper titled “Fourteen things you have to know about fast track” to help you understand this important debate. What is fast-track trade authority? Fast track allows a treaty to […]

By Rick Manning Establishment, globalist advocates published what will go down as the most disingenuous, deceitful, and outright dishonest promotional piece on behalf of the so-called fast track trade authority that could have been written. Authored by liberal GOP Congressman Paul Ryan and heretofore “conservative” Senator Ted […]

By Rick Manning President Barack Obama’s managed trade agenda hit the front burner when Congress returned as Senate Finance Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT) introduced legislation granting the President fast track trade authority. The demand for fast track legislation was a focal point of President Obama’s January State of […]

By Robert Romano “We’re not only going to see rates move irregularly lower, but they’re going to remain depressed for several years. This process is not coming to an end, it’s dragging on.” That was Lacy Hunt of Hoisington Investment Management Company speaking with CNBC’s Rick Santelli on the trajectory of long-term […]

By Robert Romano First, the bill was supposed to be released on Monday. Then, it was supposed to be released on Tuesday. Now, it is Wednesday, and maybe it will be released, and maybe it won’t. But come Thursday, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah)  tells Politico that […]

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By Robert Romano “Except in the short run, real interest rates are determined by a wide range of economic factors, including prospects for economic growth — not by the Fed.” That was former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, very much downplaying the extent to which the nation’s central bank “controls” interest rates in his inaugural blog post for the Brookings Institution. […]

By Rick Manning What does the dismal unemployment report for March mean for the American economy? Are there reasons to be concerned that the optimism in the general media that the economy was finally picking up steam was misplaced? What do other economic reports say? Make no […]

By Robert Romano Does the national debt, now at $18.15 trillion, ever need to repaid? It seems an important question since, as far as the record is concerned, it has increased every single year since 1957 — more than 50 years ago. Except for brief periods in the 1950s, the 1920s, […]