By Catherine Mortensen As I stared at my computer screen full of facts, figures, links, and letters about the moral hazards of American investments in Chinese companies, I wondered how I could get people to care that their retirement pensions could be funding a vast network of […]
By Catherine Mortensen Earlier this year James Payne, a 73-year-old retired attorney in Utah, was so fed up with the high cost of a blood thinner medication he takes, he researched prices in Canada, where he found it was cheaper. “Under Medicare, I am now paying $225 […]
By Robert Romano In 2016, President Donald Trump won on an America first message on trade, uniting blue-collar union and conservative households to get over the top in the Electoral College in the Rust Belt states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Ohio. Trump successfully made the case […]
By Robert Romano “I would shut it down, I would listen to the scientists.” That was former Vice President Joe Biden telling ABC News’ David Muir that if elected President in November, he is prepared to shut down the U.S. economy again to deal with the Chinese coronavirus. […]
By Robert Romano Probably the most important question that the press might ask President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden is what America will look like if the hoped for COVID-19 vaccines now in clinical trials are not effective at reducing the spread of the […]
By Robert Romano A combined, unadjusted 1.56 million Americans came off of unemployment continued insurance claims the weeks of August 1 and August 8, according to the latest data by the Department of Labor as the U.S. economy continues a rapid recovery almost nobody but President Donald Trump was predicting. Since the week ending May 9, unadjusted […]
By Catherine Mortensen The Trump administration is threatening to reverse a sweetheart deal former Vice President Joe Biden orchestrated giving Chinese companies access to U.S. capital markets because it puts the retirement accounts of millions of Americans at risk. The 2013 Biden deal gave Chinese companies access to America’s capital […]
By Robert Romano President Donald Trump is currently considering an executive order that will direct the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to implement a proposed 2018 rule instituting an International Pricing Index for Medicare Part B prescription drugs. The intent is to reduce drug costs for seniors. However, it […]
By Catherine Mortensen California often serves as a cautionary tale for other states with its misguided policy choices informing other governors of what not to do. Most recently, California is under scrutiny for directing billions of dollars in its state retirement pension funds into companies connected to […]
