UPDATE 8.25.20: Before the China virus hit, and Democrats were telling everyone not to worry and to head to Chinatowns for the Lunar New Year parades, President Donald Trump had engineered an economy that produced the lowest unemployment since the time of Richard Nixon.  Originally posted October 8, 2018. CNBC reports that today’s Employment Situation […]

UPDATE 8.27.2020: Before blue state governors locked down their states’ economies with no real idea of what effect it might have, President Trump had engineered America’s lowest unemployment rates in decades, with black, Hispanic, and female Americans employed at the highest rates ever. The Biden campaign is planning to apply some of the same unproven […]

UPDATE 8/24/2020: Remember Americans, this is what America’s Job Creator Donald Trump did for you before the Chinese stepped in with their world-economy-killing COVID-19! Originally posted December 9, 2019. Only a crazy person would think of replacing a jobs-creating doer like President Trump with any of the job and IRA killing Democrats running against him. […]

Back in June, I told you about the cavalcade of trucks supplying America’s reopening. I told you then of my trip up the East Coast “Especially noticeable was the vast number of trucks carrying lumber to mills and job sites.” In the Wall Street Journal, Ryan Dezember explains why lumber companies can barely keep up […]

HISTORIC JOBS NUMBERS! #MAGA pic.twitter.com/ncAkWV0D2c — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 2, 2020 One America News reports on the President’s reaction to historic job growth, writing: President Trump said the latest monthly jobs report proves the U.S. economy is roaring back. During a White House press briefing Thursday, he touted the historic 4.8 million jobs […]

Originally posted June 3, 2020.  At The American Spectator, R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. explains that, until the unpredictable effect of the coronavirus, President Donald Trump was the best jobs creator ever for America’s minority citizens. He writes (abridged): As I watched the television last week and listened to the learned sages pronounce about America, I […]

Originally posted June 8, 2020. Debbie and I have traveled up the East Coast countless times over the last many decades. On every trip, we take inventory of the health of America’s small-town Main Streets, pedestrian activity in towns, and truck activity on the highways, among many other inference reading signals. Last Friday we were […]

“These much better than expected results suggest that the U.S. economy may be more resilient than many investors and analysts feared,” wrote John Stoltzfus, chief investment strategist, at Oppenheimer Asset Management. New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, evidently unable to stand the good economic news, Twitted suggestions of fact-free conspiracy theories involving President Trump and […]

As Americans emerge from stay-at-home orders, commodity prices, like that of lumber, are soaring. Will Horner and Ryan Dezember report for The Wall Street Journal: Lumber futures have soared since the start of April, driven by cutbacks at mills, signs that the home-building season might be salvaged and brisk business at home-improvement stores. Among major […]