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04.13.2021

Inflation pops to 2.6 percent last 12 months on oil and energy as Covid printing press runs on overdrive

The recovery is already occurring, we don’t need more stimulus. By Robert Romano The Consumer Price Index has predictably jumped up 2.6 percent the past twelve months, and up 0.6 percent in the month of March alone as oil, gasoline and piped natural gas prices have rallied, […]

04.06.2021

The national debt skyrocketed $4.96 trillion since Jan. 2020, so why are interest rates still relatively low?

As long as demand for the treasuries remain constant, we don’t have skyrocketing interest rates or a sovereign debt crisis — for now. By Robert Romano In 2020, as the global economy was shutting down, markets were reeling and governments were organizing a response to the Covid […]

04.06.2021

Treasury Secretary Yellen’s push for a global minimum corporate tax undermines free markets and hurts developing nations

“The corporate income tax is the least efficient tax base, and it makes sense for countries that want to attract investment and improve their standard of living by cutting their corporate taxes.” By Catherine Mortensen A leading corporate tax policy expert said Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen’s push […]

04.01.2021

Biden Unveils Socialist Agenda, where is outrage, or at least concern?

“These are not the droids you are looking for. You can move along.” This is not the socialism you are expecting. This is just a “paradigm shift.”  By Sheryl Kaufman An article in Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal dressed itself as an objective report on Biden’s shift to using the government as […]

03.23.2021

Biden’s public option has been introduced in the Senate, but does it have any chance of passing?

Democrats are planning on jamming whatever they can, including some sort of public option, down the American people’s throats. By Robert Romano On Feb. 17, U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-Va.) and Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) introduced the Medicare-X Choice Act , which will turn Medicare into a public option for all Americans who want socialized medicine via a […]

03.22.2021

With a little help from God (and Trump!) Church Survives 2020

By Frank McCaffrey Americans for Limited Government is revisiting small businesses we spoke with the 2020 at the start of the pandemic. We want to see what they’ve been up to today. We visited with the upstate New York church we spoke with in 2020 […]

03.22.2021

Surprise: U.S., not foreigners, owns most of our debt

As long as central banks, financial institutions and pensions continue buying, then there is no sovereign debt crisis and no reason for interest rates to skyrocket. By Robert Romano The U.S. Federal Reserve and the Social Security and Medicare trust funds own a collective $11 trillion of […]

03.18.2021

Biden’s One-Two Punch on Taxes Will Destroy Free Markets and Any Hope of Economic Recovery

If Democrats are successful in hiking taxes on the “wealthy,” and the courts allow them to set state and international corporate tax rates, Biden and Congressional Democrats will have delivered a one-two-punch to our economy that we may never recover from. By Catherine Mortensen Democrats snuck a […]

03.15.2021

Blue states with the worst lockdowns lost the most jobs per capita to Covid as Congress rewards restrictions

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The longer Congress pays states to remain closed, hurting working families, the longer this recession will continue. By Robert Romano Nevada, Hawaii, Maryland, Vermont, Connecticut, California, New Jersey, Virginia, Iowa, Rhode Island, Illinois, New York, Maine and Washington remain the states most impacted in jobs lost as […]

03.15.2021

Small business owner fears Biden’s Covid bailout could slow recovery

“Why would anyone want to hurry up and come back to work if they’re getting free money sitting around?” By Frank McCaffrey Americans for Limited Government Foundation is revisiting small business people we spoke with in 2020. We want to see what they’ve been up […]

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