06.05.2018

Cartoon: Galloping ahead

06.05.2018

Italy seats populist government as Reinhart calls Italian debt restructuring ‘unavoidable’

By Robert Romano Italian President Sergio Mattarella has ended the impasse in Rome and has allowed a new government to be seated , with Giuseppe Conte being sworn in as Prime Minister, the Five-Star Movement’s Luigi Di Maio being named Deputy Prime Minister and Labor Minister and the League’s Matteo Salvini being named to […]

06.04.2018

Why are 33 million working age adults with no disability out of the labor force?

By Robert Romano The U.S. economy added 293,000 jobs in May, according to the household survey published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics , bringing the total to nearly 3.4 million more Americans reporting they have jobs since President Donald Trump took office in Jan. 2017. That averages about 212,000 new jobs every month, to a total of 155.47 […]

06.01.2018

President Trump follows through on steel and aluminum tariff threat against Canada, Mexico and Europe

By Robert Romano He did it. In his continued push for “fair and reciprocal” trade, President Donald Trump has followed through on his promise to impose a 25 percent tariff on steel and 10 percent tariff on aluminum from Canada, Mexico and the European Union. The three had been temporarily excluded from […]

05.31.2018

Congress helped create the domestic rare earth minerals shortage—and now it can fix it

By Printus LeBlanc Last week an unknown Chinese phone company, ZTE, was thrust into the spotlight because of ongoing trade negations and sanctions talk. Members of the Senate and House were up in arms because President Trump was in discussions to lift or modify the […]

05.30.2018

The Italian president just all but guaranteed the anti-euro Five-Star, League will win the next elections

By Robert Romano Depending on your perspective, Italian President Sergio Mattarella has either saved Italy, or sealed its fate. After Italy’s elections resulted in the anti-euro Five-Star Movement and the League banding together with Giuseppe Conte being nominated for Prime Minister by the parties, and Paolo Savona […]

05.24.2018

Socialism keeps failing in Venezuela because the people there keep voting for it

By Natalia Castro Venezuela is a country destroyed by socialism and the most recent election is evidence of the country’s crumbling institutions. Despite growing destitution, hunger, and political unrest, Nicolas Maduro has been re-elected to serve as President of Venezuela. Maduro has extended the reign […]

05.23.2018

Illinois is a fiscal basket case and raising property taxes would only make it worse

By Printus LeBlanc A recent report from the University of Illinois at Chicago named Chicago the most corrupt city in the U.S. with Illinois being the third most corrupt state. As expected, with corruption being the rule in Illinois, the state is a fiscal basket case. For decades corrupt politicians in the state made outlandish […]

05.22.2018

Seattle created its homelessness crisis; now it’s trying to make it worse

By Printus LeBlanc Seattle never learns. Seattle says it has a homelessness problem, which it does. The city says the problem is getting out of control and something needs to be done about it. Are the uber-liberal residents and politicians of the city stepping forward […]

05.18.2018

Are illegal immigration amnesty Republicans trying to hand majority back to Pelosi?

By Printus LeBlanc The amnesty crowd on Capitol Hill is up to its old tricks again, still pushing the idea of rewarding bad behavior while ignoring the plights of law-abiding American citizens. With all the problems facing the country, illegal immigration amnesty seems to be […]

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