By Rick Manning President Donald Trump is very bad at being an isolationist, in fact, he is probably one of the worse isolationists in American history. Think about it.  President Trump is pushing Congress to pass the USMCA, which tears up the 40 year old NAFTA agreement […]

By Rick Manning Below are a few good news economic stories you might have missed since the media created recession fears have been negated by the robust U.S. economy. The August jobs data showing more people employed than at any time in history with more than a million more job openings than unemployed people in the […]

By Robert Romano At 3.7 percent , unemployment nationwide is at near 50-year lows as the U.S. economy gets ready to enter the fourth quarter. As good as the low numbers are, the American people may be surprised to learn that they could go even lower amid shifting demographics […]

By Rick Manning AT&T/Time Warner recently announced that they were entering into an agreement worth approximately $9 million with Verizon to manage their email services and web portal. While the news may have only been noticed in Buffalo, N.Y., the hometown of the company that lost the […]

By Robert Romano Don’t look now, but if you were planning on a severe recession and a spike in unemployment before the 2020 elections in the hopes it would help oust President Donald Trump, you might have to keep waiting. The spread between 10-year and 2-year treasuries , the one that […]

By Robert Romano In 2016, when President Donald Trump was campaigning to black Americans, the appeal he made was a simple one, “What have you got to lose?” The answer was nothing, and as it turns out, there was a whole lot to gain, including the best […]

By Rick Manning There were fewer people unemployed in America in August 2019 than there were in August 1975 when we were just shy of 69 million fewer people in the economy. I graduated from Norco High School in 1975. I am now eligible to collect Social […]

By Robert Romano Financial media were quick to report a slowdown in manufacturing, that found the Institute for Supply Management (ISM) dropping below 50 and to its lowest level since Jan. 2016. Anything below 50 indicates a contraction. Looking for the culprit in the slowdown? Some publications attributed the slowdown […]

By Rick Manning Ask yourself if you were President, what would you do if you discovered that a foreign country has been waging an underground war against the nation you are sworn to protect surreptitiously killing tens of thousands of your people every year by pouring a […]

By Robert Romano If you buy into the idea of a business cycle, the economy is a lot like a forest that grows, prospers, becomes large and then, with the right conditions, usually a drought or a lightning strike, is cleansed by a great fire — a […]