03.12.2019

Cartoon: Bad to the Bone

03.12.2019

The white, non-Hispanic working age population shrank slightly in 2018 but is still creating more jobs in the Trump economy

By Robert Romano One America News Network’s Ryan Girdusky made a big splash on March 8 noting a Quinnipiac poll out of the state of Texas pitting President Donald Trump against Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) in which Trump only garners 70 percent of the white, no-college-degree vote, compared to 2016 when CNN said he got 76 percent in Texas . The real split in the poll is among independents. Trump does […]

03.11.2019

Ivanka Trump is right. The Trump economy continues to bring more working age adults off the sidelines.

By Robert Romano One of the biggest problems with the U.S. economy has been the continued decline of working age adults since 2000 — that is, those aged 16-to-64-years-olds — who have left the labor force. Labor participation among working aged adults was almost 77.4 percent in […]

03.08.2019

Government does not create jobs

By Rick Manning Government does not create jobs, the private sector creates jobs. This is the basic rule that gets obscured in the political back and forth over the economy.  And truthfully, it is very tempting to forget when you work for the government focused upon trying […]

03.07.2019

Trump was right. Record goods trade deficit with China at $419 billion in 2018 underscores importance of trade agenda.

By Robert Romano We’re going to need a bigger tariff. It is hard to come to any other conclusion as the trade in goods deficit with China hit a record high in 2018 at $419.1 billion according to the U.S. Census Bureau , in the same year President Donald Trump levied 10 percent tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese goods shipped to […]

03.01.2019

While not quite 3 percent yet, 2018 was the strongest economy since 2005 on growth and jobs

By Robert Romano President Donald Trump’s second year in office marked the strongest economic growth since 2005 at 2.9 percent, according to data compiled by the Bureau of Economic Analysis , beating every one of President Barack Obama’s years in office — for now. It was by a nose, and the numbers are still subject to revision. Obama’s strongest year was 2015, […]

02.28.2019

U.S.-China tech balance of power at risk in FTC case

By Rick Manning Protection of intellectual property is one of the primary stumbling blocks in the ongoing trade negotiations between the United States and China. It is not being hyperbolic to say that China’s long-standing and on-going demands that intellectual property rights be relinquished by businesses accessing […]

02.25.2019

Why conservatives are patronizing the arts and media directly and skipping liberal Hollywood — and need to do it more

By Robert Romano Hollywood and other aspects of the entertainment industry including music and publishing tend to be very liberal institutions, it’s no mystery, and a lot of the content it produces often reflects that. Sometimes the messages are subtle and sometimes they are in your face […]

02.19.2019

Cartoon: AOC Math

02.14.2019

Sprint-T-Mobile will help bring 5G nationwide and transform the U.S. economy forever

By Robert Romano At the Feb. 13 hearing of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, the proposed merger of T-Mobile U.S., Inc. and Sprint Corporation was considered by members of Congress, with T-Mobile CEO John Legere and Sprint Executive Chairman Marcelo Claure testifying. By the far […]

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