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 […]

UPDATE 5/29/2020: 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. […]

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 […]

A Gallup poll that has been conducted since the 1970s has just released record-breaking results. Of those polled, 90% said they were satisfied with their personal life. That’s two points higher than the previous record set at 88% in 2003. The same poll recorded a 20-year high in American confidence in the economy. The poll’s […]

The day after President Trump touted “jobs, jobs, jobs,” in his State of the Union speech, ADP confirmed the strength of the employment economy by announcing the largest single-month private payroll gains for nearly five years. Jeff Cox reports for CNBC: The jobs market kicked off 2020 in grand fashion, adding 291,000 in private payrolls […]

Justin Haskins, a research fellow at The Heartland Institute, writes in The Epoch Times: America’s economy continues to make remarkable progress. Asians, African Americans, Hispanics, and women all enjoyed historically low unemployment in 2019. America’s job numbers are stellar, which suggests strongly that President Trump will win a second term. In fact, an examination of modern American […]

Although last Friday’s employment report showed fewer new jobs and slowing wage gains, there is still good news. The big picture is that the longest hiring expansion in 80 years is lifting lower-income workers in particular, reports James Freeman in the WSJ. As accumulating evidence shows, the jobless rate remains steady at 3.5% (labor participation […]

The jobs numbers for December were released today. Wall Street didn’t like the headline payrolls number because it came in a little bit light, but there is plenty of good news in the report for Main Street. For starters, unemployment remains near a record low. The headline unemployment rate is 3.5%. We haven’t had a […]