By Natalia Castro The U.S. economy is due for another recession, and every state needs to be asking themselves one simple question, are they ready? Economists have already answered, absolutely not. Following the 2008 recession, state economies suffered revenue losses and have yet to recover […]

By Robert Romano If the tax plan put on the table by House Republicans is the final version of the tax bill, in the first four years, the tax cut will average $182.2 billion a year, according to the Joint Committee on Taxation . That works out to 0.87 percent of the Gross Domestic […]

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By Robert Romano In Fiscal Year 2017, the budget deficit swelled to $666 billion and it could be getting even bigger when you consider the current number of bills being considered by Congress. Getting to a $1 trillion deficit for Fiscal Year 2018 might not be too far-fetched. For example, there’s a year-end omnibus […]

By Robert Romano One of the greatest disappointments with the U.S. economy since the turn of the century has been its consistent underperformance, not growing above an inflation-adjusted average annual rate of 4 percent since 2000, and not above 3 percent since 2005. What has come in […]

By Rick Manning The digital revolution has transformed the way Americans receive their news and information, and the Federal Communications Commission rightly recognizes this by proposing to open the doors for cross-ownership of broadcast stations and print newspapers in the same market. TechFreedom President Berin Szóka recently […]

By Robert Romano Among the zombie regulators held over from the Obama administration, including Consumer Financial Protection Bureau director Richard Cordray and now outgoing Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen, another holdover still in place is Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Director Mel Watt. Watt was appointed […]

By Printus LeBlanc Another day, another Obama era scandal is revealed. Following the subprime mortgage crisis in 2007-2010, the calamity that almost brought down the economy, lawsuits were abound, including suits brought by the Department of Justice (DOJ). The Obama administration lived by the motto […]