By Robert Romano President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are running neck and neck among Millennials in a Economist-YouGov poll take March 10 to March 12 , with Biden leading Trump narrowly 41 percent to 36 percent among 30-to-44-year-olds, and 10 percent saying “other” that might be a proxy for Robert Kennedy, Jr. Among […]

By Robert Romano 71 percent of registered voters say that post-Covid inflation has “proven sticky and is here to stay” according to the latest Harvard-Harris poll take March 20-21 , even as President Joe Biden struggles to assure voters that inflation is calming down. That includes 87 percent of Republicans, 70 percent of independents […]

By Robert Romano “Now, if I don’t get elected, it’s going be a bloodbath for the whole — that’s going to bet the least of it — it’s going be a bloodbath for the country. That’ll be the least of it.” That was former President Donald Trump […]

  By Rick Manning There is an axiom of tax policy which states, “raise taxes on what you want to limit and cut taxes on what you want to encourage,” which synopsizes why some expenditures are allowed to be deducted, others get you credits, but most you […]

By Robert Romano “ARE YOU BETTER OFF THAN YOU WERE FOUR YEARS AGO?” That was former President Donald Trump’s question to his supporters on Truth Social on March 18 . After locking up the Republican Party’s presidential nomination for 2024, now the American people are looking towards the general election where Trump will square off against incumbent […]

By Robert Romano Consumer inflation ticked up 0.4 percent in February to an annual rate of 3.2 percent amid a jump in oil, gasoline, natural gas, transportation and shelter according to the latest data by the Bureau of Labor Statistics . Gasoline was up 3.8 percent. Fuel oil was up 1.1 percent. Natural gas was up 2.3 percent. […]

By Robert Romano Don’t look now, but U.S. labor markets appear to be churning in the wrong direction, as the unemployment rate jumped to 3.9 percent in February , and the unemployment level hit a new high for this cycle at almost 6.5 million, up 760,000 from its low this cycle of 5.7 million in Dec. 2022, according […]

By Rick Manning Joe Biden’s inflation has caused a banking crisis, which came to a head last year with the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature due to the near tripling of interest rates on new bonds, which destroyed the value of the low-interest bonds in […]

By Robert Romano Since 1963 through 2022, the percent growth of revenues has averaged 6.9 percent a year to its present level of $4.65 trillion, according to data compiled by the White House Office of Management and Budget . In the meantime, mandatory spending including net interest owed on the national debt has grown an average 8.87 percent a year to its current […]

By Robert Romano The consumer price index has increased a total of 17.6 percent since President Joe Biden took office, according to the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics . In the meantime, nominal personal income measured by the Bureau of Economic Analysis has only increased by 15 percent since Feb. 2021. By that measure alone, the American people are still not better […]