05.28.2021

Deficit will hit $3.6 trillion in fiscal year 2021 as $7.27 trillion of the national debt will come due in the next year alone

By Robert Romano The annual budget deficit has already hit $1.9 trillion and counting for the fiscal year that will end in September, according to the U.S. Treasury’s April statement , and it will reach as high as $3.6 trillion this year, says the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) . Comparatively, in 2020, the deficit totaled about $3.1 trillion for the […]

05.27.2021

Techlash: How Silicon Valley is Losing the Battle

By David Potter Techlash has arrived. People are more skeptical and resentful of the tech sector than ever before. For conservatives, censorship plays a big role in this distrust. Around the world, and here at home governments are starting to act to curb tech overlords. Florida Gov. […]

05.27.2021

Did the Fed’s strong dollar policy artificially exacerbate the 25 million job losses during Covid?

By Robert Romano One of former President Donald Trump’s biggest complaints during his term of office was that the dollar was too strong for him to pursue his trade agenda to boost U.S. exports and bring manufacturing back to America. He had a point. That is because […]

05.25.2021

UK unilaterally eliminated cane sugar tariffs the same year sugar beet blight hit, ravaging domestic farmers

By Rick Manning In 2020, sugar beet famers in the United Kingdom (UK) got hit with a double-whammy: The domestic sugar beet crop was hit with virus yellows , blighting the entire crop in 2020, and then the government eliminated tariffs on imported cane sugar up to 260,000 tonnes in 2021 , devastating domestic farmers. In almost the exact opposite of what you might expect from the post-Brexit UK — […]

05.25.2021

The money supply has grown more than 28 percent to $20.1 trillion since the Covid pandemic began, but does it matter?

By Robert Romano The supply of U.S. dollars as measured by the Federal Reserve’s M2 Money Stock has grown by more than $4.6 trillion since Feb. 2020 when the Covid pandemic began to $20.1 trillion — a gargantuan 29.6 percent increase in the money supply, the largest ever on record. The surge […]

05.24.2021

Blue States Lockdowns Killing People & Jobs

We cannot let Democrats try to turn this sorry state of affairs into the new normal. By Catherine Mortensen The country’s latest unemployment and Covid death numbers make clear that Democrat governor’s heavy-handed lockdowns of schools and businesses killed more people and more jobs than did the […]

05.21.2021

ALG on the Bill Martinez Radio Show: Inflation Threatens All on Fixed Incomes

ALG President Rick Manning appears as a regular guest every week on the nationally syndicated Bill Martinez radio  show in over 300 markets nationally on Wednesday’s at 9:am ET. This week, Rick talked about the very real threat of doubl-digit inflation as President Biden continues to spend […]

05.17.2021

Cartoon: What a Drag

05.17.2021

Price stability, not inflation, will get the U.S. economy back to full employment sooner rather than later

In 2021, after a year of spending and borrowing trillions and now the dollar is rapidly getting weaker, and too much spending could be curtailing job seeking. By Robert Romano 2020 and 2021 are two sides of the same coin: Price instability brought about by the dollar […]

05.12.2021

TOWNHALL GUEST COLUMN: Biden’s America Resembles the Bad Old Days of 1973

Today’s headlines are ripped straight out of the newspapers of 1973. Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning is featured weekly in Townhall Media. To view column on Townhall media click here . By Rick Manning While President Joe Biden may look fondly back on the year 1973, the year he began serving in the United States […]

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