The drive by media has a lot of heart—giving President Trump a hard time about GM (Government Motors) cutting jobs—running headlines that he’s “Angry” and is “Threatening” the company. Talk about inheriting a government disaster. It was the Obama administration’s misguided bailout of the autos in 2008 that lead to this mess to begin with. […]
Are America’s Monopolies an Imminent Danger?
At The American Conservative, Daniel Kishi explains the anti-trust views of Tim Wu, a Columbia Law School professor who believes America today is monopolized, and offers some solutions. Kishi writes (abridged): A new class of monopolists has arisen and a second gilded age is upon us. So argues Tim Wu, a professor at Columbia Law […]
Democrats Threaten the Economy
With a host of proposals to hamper economic growth, Democrats could undo all the progress made by the Trump administration. Nancy Pelosi has promised to pass a minimum wage of $15/hour, without regard to the fact that such a move could devastate America’s small businesses. Not only that, but the future Chairwoman of the House […]
U.S. is #1: World’s Most Competitive Economy
For the first time in a decade the U.S. is the world’s most competitive economy. That according to the World Economic Forum rankings. Thank you President Trump. And the good news is, there’s room for improvement. I can tell you from my conversations with investors that Trump has brought a new level of energy, an […]
50,000 Factories Lost: A Scar on Rural America
UPDATE: After President Trump negotiated a new trade deal with Canada and Mexico, auto manufacturers are looking at bringing jobs back to North America. The Wall Street Journal’s Chester Dawson and William Boston report on the new deal: “The tentative deal, which replaces Nafta, requires auto makers to build at least 75% of a car’s […]
Trump: “The Jobs President”
CNBC reports that today’s Employment Situation Report from the Labor Department reports that unemployment has fallen to the lowest level since 1969. They write: The unemployment rate fell two-tenths of a percentage point to 3.7 percent, the lowest level since December 1969 and one-tenth of a percentage point below expectations. The closely watched average hourly […]
Trump Powers Up Best News for Investors Since 2009
I am truly excited for retired investors and those discerning investors stashing away savings for a comfortable future retirement. Due 100% to the misguided progressive policies of the Obama administration and the Fed, the U.S. economy had fallen into a two term, easily avoidable, funk. Obama, with zero practical background of any sort, had put […]
Economic Freedom on the Rise in the U.S.
Worth noting, reports the Cato Institute, is that the United States has returned to the list of top 10 nations for economic freedom in 2016 after an absence of several years. The foundations of economic freedom are personal choice, voluntary exchange, and open markets. As Adam Smith, Milton Friedman, and Friedrich Hayek have stressed, freedom […]
Get to Work: It’s a Dirty Job Being We the People
You may know the name Mike Rowe from his apprentice work on his television show “Dirty Jobs” or his witty, on the money guest appearances, on The Tucker Carlson Show. Mike Rowe is a busy guy. His foundation, the Mike Rowe Works Foundation is “a public charity that rewards people with a passion to get […]
Obama’s First Term: 9.3 Million Families Lost Their Homes
Writing at The American Conservative, Telly Davidson, author of Culture War: How the 90’s Made Us Who We Are Today (Like it Or Not), explains the economic destruction wrought from 2008 on through the Obama administration, which was filled with braindead elites held over from the George W. Bush administration or resurrected from the Clinton administration. The […]
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