By Robert Romano Could it be Democrats who fail the midterms? Amid surging economic growth, 4.1 percent inflation-adjusted in the second quarter , and nearly 3.9 million more Americans have found jobs since President Donald Trump took office, House and Senate Democrats could be looking at an uphill battle to take back Congress in November. Losing yet another special election in Ohio’s […]

By Robert Romano On paper, India has all of the potential in the world to become the next big economic powerhouse. It has 1.3 billion people. It has a relatively small but growing middle class of 24 million according to Credit Suisse . It has large stores of coal, iron and […]

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By Rick Manning President Trump promised in 2016 that the forgotten men and women would be brought back into the economy. Now the July employment numbers, released Friday, confirm that those who have been left behind over the past two decades are beginning to find their places […]

By Robert Romano Government-created monopolies are not a new thing, and indeed there are times when Congress has determined that having a government charter for an authoritative, monopoly function can serve a valuable public need. Sometimes these are agencies. The Federal Reserve is tasked by Congress to […]

By Printus LeBlanc Once again, the oh-so progressive, oh-so enlightened Seattle City Council is showing the rest of the country what not to do. The idealistic leftists who control the Council are wasting millions of hard-earned taxpayer dollars in failed attempts to solve problems Council […]

By Robert Romano After a rip-roaring 4.1 percent inflation-adjusted economic growth for the second quarter of 2018, the economy under President Donald Trump is making tremendous progress to full recovery, after more than a decade of stagnant growth. The U.S. economy has not grown above 4 percent since 2000, and not above 3 […]

By ALG Staff The latest GDP numbers are in from the Bureau of Economic Analysis and they show inflation-adjust growth came in at 4.1 percent annualized in the second quarter and the first quarter was revised up to 2.2 percent. Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning praised the numbers, saying, […]

By Robert Romano “[W]e agreed today first of all to work together toward zero tariffs, zero non-tariff barriers and zero subsidies on non-auto industrial goods. We will also work to reduce barriers and increase trade in services, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, medical products as well as soybeans…” That was President Donald Trump at a joint press conference with President […]

By Robert Romano 114 out of the nation’s 1,400 multiemployer pension plans covering 1.3 million workers are underfunded to the tune of $36.4 billion, with plans expected to start going insolvent in the next 5 years or so, an Aug. 2017 analysis by Cheiron has found . This is the end result of unsustainable collective […]