By Frank McCaffrey It is safe to say many reading this piece pretended not to care about the Mike Tyson vs. Roy Jones, Jr. exhibition fight this weekend. But, you had to either watch it or check in on news/social media reports about it. We […]

“Drop the glue gun, and no one gets hurt!”  By Catherine Mortensen A week before Thanksgiving, shoppers in Albuquerque, New Mexico strolled the aisles of Hobby Lobby, some perhaps shopping for glue guns and glitter to help with holiday decorating. Their shopping ended abruptly after an alarming […]

\ “Wrestling is one of many examples of how the free markets work.” By Frank McCaffrey I am fortunate in many ways because I learned about the power of the free markets as a teenager. I worked for a local television show called “Inside the […]

By Robert Romano By now, it should be perfectly clear to most Americans that Democrats simply do not want to hand President Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans a going away present this legislative year on phase four stimulus legislation and the Covid vaccine — which could rescue […]

 Losing restaurants is more than losing great food and ambience. It’s losing the dreams of the owners and their staff. By Frank McCaffrey  It was November of 2016 and I had just been flown down to the Rio Grande Valley on the southern tip of […]

By Robert Romano 16.4 million jobs have been recovered since April when labor markets bottomed amid the state-led Covid pandemic economic shutdowns, according to the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. But with Covid cases once again on the upswing as the cold and flu season kicks […]

By Robert Romano The U.S. economy blew the barn doors off all other past recoveries with a record, inflation-adjusted 33.1 percent gain in the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) — more than any other quarter in economic history — in the last major economic report before the election in November. That is great news for the […]

By Catherine Mortensen When April Long, a 45-year old suburban mother in Detroit pays the family bills, she sets aside an extra $100 each month that she calls her “Trump cash.” That’s how much her family saves each month from the 2017 Trump tax cut. “Trump has […]

By Robert Romano “We can’t close up our nation, or you’re not going to have a nation.” That was President Donald Trump in the final presidential debate of 2020 , making his closing argument to the American people on reopening the economy and getting life back as close to normal as possible […]

By Robert Romano Former Vice President Joe Biden inherited a recession in 2009 when he and former President Barack Obama were elected in 2008, and if he wins this year, it will happen again. Although 14 million jobs have already been recovered from the state-led Covid pandemic economic […]