Dow Loses 800 Points in Two Days — a Forecast of Weakening Economy?
Monday’s selloff in stocks brought the Dow Jones Industrial Average down more than five percent since early October. Is this decline a harbinger...
Economic Commentary
Jobs Report So Strong Even Democrats Can’t Find Anything Wrong With It
If Independents tune out the noise and focus on their votes on their pocketbooks...
Growing U.S. Economy Unable to Keep Up With Growing Government Spending
No matter how strong the economy and the resulting revenues to the federal government,...
Is the Fed Trying to Kill the Trump Economy?
Is this the beginning of the end? Is this the death knell for stocks...
IMF Lowers Global Economic Growth Estimates, Blames Trump Tariffs
The International Monetary Fund fell into the same trap as so many other forecasters...
Fed Set to Spoil the Party and Dampen the Trump Economy
Market watchers will have to wait until Tuesday to see if the mini-panic selloff...
Amazon’s New $15 Minimum Wage Is a Shrewd Political Move
Amazon’s announcement that it will raise its minimum wage to $15 an hour is...
The Coming National Debt Tsunami
According to the Treasury, the government’s national debt jumped in the fiscal year ending...
U.S. Economy Setting Records, Surprising Market Bears
The Conference Board's report on consumer confidence in September, released earlier this week, caught...
New Unemployment Claims Headed for 50-year Lows
The jobless claims report from the Department of Labor (DOL) for the week ending...
Nearly Half a Trillion Dollars Already Repatriated; More Coming
In the first six months of 2018 alone, American companies have called back $465...
Trump Seeks Third Round of Trade Talks With China, Sensing Their Vulnerability
Will the third round of trade talks go any better than the first two?...
Trump: Economy “Booming Like Never Before”
By nearly every metric, the economy under Trump continues to expand. ...
Economy Booming: Could We See Trump’s Claimed 5% GDP Growth?
Second-quarter GDP growth was revised upward, to 4.2 percent, and some are now predicting...