By A.F. Branco Click here to view larger resolution image.

“This budget, in my view, will destroy the ability to create new jobs in this country.” By Catherine Mortensen Today, Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) made an opening statement at a hearing on President Biden’s Fiscal Year 2022 budget proposal in which he warned […]

By Robert Romano The U.S. economy added another 559,000 jobs in the month of May, according to the Bureau of labor Statistics’ establishment survey of employers, as the unemployment rate fell to 5.8 percent amid the U.S. economy continuing its reopening from the Covid pandemic. More than 39 percent […]

By Rick Manning Miss your old free checking account? In 2020, only 47 percent of non-interest checking accounts were free  according to Bankrate.com . That’s up from 42 percent in 2019 and  the low of 37 percent in 2015, but well below the 76 percent that were offered in 2009 . Why such a big drop? In part, you can thank the Dodd-Frank financial services reform bill of […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 — […]

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 […]

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 […]