The latest unemployment figures from states shows that eleven states engaged in the most draconian economic shutdowns all have significantly higher unemployment rates than the national average.  By Rick Manning The last month of President Trump’s economic miracle was February 2020 before Covid struck the U.S. economy.The […]

By Rick Manning The U. S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics reported fantastic job gain numbers across the country of 379,000 jobs created in their February 2021 Establishment Survey. While the economy remains over 9.5 million jobs shy of pre-pandemic levels according to the establishment survey — and 8.5 million shy in the separate household survey — this growth is a positive […]

“If we’ve learned anything from this pandemic it is this, the federal government has been empowered to just send people checks without any recourse. This is the real danger of the helicopter money mentality that the 2020 Covid-19 crisis has produced.” By Catherine Mortensen During the 2020 […]

Is the stimulus starting to see a cycle of diminishing returns? By Robert Romano The U.S. House of Representatives has completed its work on its version of the $1.9 trillion Covid spending bill, passing on a party line 219 to 212 vote on Feb. 27 , and going back to the Senate for consideration. The legislation would provide $1,400 checks to […]

By Robert Romano Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is offering an alternative budget plan that would cut three cents out of every federal dollar spent every year for five years, bringing the budget into balance by 2026, at a time when the U.S. added more than $4.4 trillion to the national debt in 2020 […]

By Frank McCaffrey Vice President Kamala Harris recently gave an interview to a local West Virginia TV station to discuss the Biden administration’s job-killing energy policies. The WSAZ anchor brought up an important issue for her state when talking to the vice president. “People win […]

How a cute toddler everyone loved grew into a teen bully with trust issues By Catherine Mortensen Seventeen years ago today a Harvard University sophomore named Mark Zuckerberg launched The Facebook, a social media website he built in order to connect Harvard students with one another. By […]

  By Robert Romano In January, President Joe Biden unveiled his proposed $1.9 trillion Covid relief legislation which would issue yet more checks to American households, this time totaling $1,400 per individual and an additional child tax credit for $3,600 for children under 6 and $3,000 for children over 6. It would also give […]

America’s got a bad case of Biden remorse and there are even signs and symptoms of Biden remorse in the Empire State. By Frank McCaffrey It’s no secret New York State leans a certain way politically. And many in the state probably won’t stop backing […]

Placing equity over equality when it comes to our economy will not ensure that everyone ends up a millionaire, only that nobody will get the opportunity to rise through the ranks and achieve that success in the future. By Brett Kimball Equality and equity are […]