By Robert Romano The unemployment rate still remains at historic lows of 3.4 percent in April, according to the latest data by the Bureau of Labor Statistics , amid other worrying signs for the U.S. economy including a continued collapse of job openings, a string of bank failure and an overall slowing Gross Domestic Product (GDP). In the survey, as […]

By Robert Romano The U.S. Federal Reserve has once again hiked interest that it charges banks in the wake of continued elevated inflation — which peaked at 9.1 percent in June 2022 — in a bid to calm what has been a lingering problem for the overheating economy, which slowed down to 1.1 percent annualized growth in the first quarter. Finally, the […]

By Robert Romano The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation put the $229.1 billion California-based First Republic Bank into receivership today on May 1, while the FDIC also entered into a “purchase and assumption agreement” with JP Morgan-Chase Bank for the nation’s largest […]

By Robert Romano After Tucker Carlson’s firing by Fox News, do high ratings even matter anymore? That might be a good question one might ask from Fox News’ termination of Carlson, the station’s most highly rated host, who was easily winning cable news’ battle for the 8pm […]

By Robert Romano House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and the House Republican majority have unveiled their spending plan for the next decade, the Limit, Save, Grow Act , that will be tied to a $1.5 trillion increase in the $31.4 trillion national debt ceiling, the centerpiece of which imposes discretionary budget caps beginning in 2024 , but which will […]

By Robert Romano America First Legal Foundation on April 17 filed a civil rights complaint against Anheuser-Busch at the Missouri branch of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, alleging violations of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act’s prohibition against employment discrimination on the basis of race and sex, blasting the […]

By Robert Romano “A no-strings-attached debt limit increase will not pass.” That was House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) in a speech to the New York Stock Exchange on April 17 foreshadowing the upcoming debate in Congress on increasing the $31.4 trillion national debt ceiling as the new House Republican majority […]

By Robert Romano The consumer price index has continued to descend from its June 2022 peak of 9.1 percent down to a still elevated 5 percent in March 2023, according to the latest reading from the Bureau of Labor Statistics . The decrease was almost exclusively due energy prices continuing to stabilize, with oil prices being down in […]

By Robert Romano Since Jan. 2022, China has reduced its U.S. treasuries held outright, from $1.03 trillion to $859 billion in Jan. 2023, a 16.8 percent decrease, according to the latest data compiled by the U.S. Treasury of foreign holders of U.S. securities. This comes atop a further decrease from its peak in Nov. 2013 at more than $1.3 trillion , bringing the total decrease to 34.7 percent the past decade. […]

By Robert Romano Gross interest owed on the $31.4 trillion national debt —that is, interest owed on both the $24.9 trillion publicly traded debt and the $6.7 trillion debt in the Social Security, Medicare and other trust funds—will reach a gargantuan $1 trillion in 2024 for the first time in American […]