By Robert Romano Job openings rose to nearly 7.6 million in January, data by the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows , outpacing unemployment of just 6.2 million for the eleventh straight month. And that unquestionably means that the U.S. economy under President Donald Trump is still expanding. There are more job openings than job seekers, […]

By Rick Manning As originally published at TheHill.com. One of the enduring legends associated with Patrick, Patron Saint of Ireland — whose feast day many of us will celebrate Sunday — is the sprouting into a living tree of the ash walking stick he planted into the soil of Aspatria. Similarly, investment […]

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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]