By David Bozeman Fast food workers, prodded on by a top down effort by union organizers, yesterday protested in many locations demanding a minimum wage of at least $15 an hour and, of course, union representation, among other demands.  Kendall Fells, representing the SEIU-backed Fast […]

By Rick Manning Fast food restaurants will get the joy of having labor unions stage protests demanding an increase in their worker’s wages and more than doubling the overall federal minimum wage this week. Everyone wants to make more money, so what could go wrong? Perhaps it […]

By Robert Romano It took a little while, but the selloff of U.S. treasuries abroad has ceased for now in August and September — a record $127.4 billion was sold between March and July. It had marked the largest drop in foreign holdings of treasuries on record, […]

By Rick Manning Retailers know that the Friday after Thanksgiving has been the traditional bellwether for whether the year is going to be profitable. So do labor unions and their organizers, which explains why groups like the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) International Union among others […]

By Robert Romano With the filibuster against most presidential nominees now eliminated — well, sort of, Senate Democrats did not actually amend the rules , they just voted to pretend they don’t exist — the confirmation of Janet Yellen to be the next chair of the Federal Reserve is all but certain. Which is too […]

By Robert Romano Jack Welch might have been right all along. An anonymous whistleblower in a New York Post column by John Crudele is alleging  that unemployment jobs data in the current population survey conducted by the Census Bureau and the Bureau of Labor Statistics was manipulated in 2012 to help Barack Obama get reelected. According to the source, specifically, the Oct. 5, 2012 jobs report was faked — […]

By Pat Carlson and Cathie Adams The United Nations’ climate change meeting began on Nov. 11 in Warsaw, Poland, to discuss “global warming,” but when the globe stopped warming 16 years ago, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change was forced to reveal its real […]

As originally published by TheHill.com on 11/18/2013  by Rick Manning Crain Communications Automotive News reports that more than 800,000 Volkswagen Tiguan’s are being recalled worldwide based upon 26 complaints received from consumers that the lights in the vehicle go out due to a fuse problem. This is not […]

By Robert Romano Since August 2007 when the financial crisis began, the Federal Reserve has expanded its balance sheet by more than $3 trillion, including $1.35 trillion of U.S. treasuries and $1.43 trillion of mortgage-backed securities. It was “an unprecedented shopping spree,” says the former Fed official […]

By Robert Romano Since 2009, the civilian non-institutional population 25 to 64 years old has increased by 4.01 million as of September 2013, according to data compiled from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Almost half of them, more than 1.6 million, are between the ages of 25 and 34 , but there’s a big problem. Only 47 percent, or 779,000 of them have entered the labor force , that is, either […]