Foreign, Direct Investment in the US Explodes under President Trump
President Trump has concluded extremely productive visits to Gulf Cooperation Council states of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates.
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Introduction to Business 101: Golf with THE Chuck – Trump’s Weekend Wins, May 17-19, 2025
Hey, future deal-makers! It’s THE Chuck, your cigar-smoking, club-swinging business mentor, back with Golf with The Chuck for AFNN. Each week, I’m breaking down President Donald Trump’s golf weekends—where birdies meet big deals—to teach my interns the art of business.
Introduction to Business 101: Golf with The Chuck – Trump’s Weekend Wins, May 10-11, 2025
Welcome to the first installment of Golf with The Chuck, where we dissect the business savvy behind President Donald Trump’s weekend activities, often tied to his time on the golf course.
Small Businesses Aren’t Hiring – Because Big Cronyism is Murdering Them
The evolution from capitalism to cronyism bears some distinct markers. Perhaps chief amongst them is the ever-increasing domination of…everything by the biggest of Big Businesses.
Retail Bias in the Headlines
More people read the headline than read the story itself; it’s sometimes quite effective for a biased news source to write a relatively fair story if they can put their spin into the title.
Trade Wars, nothing but Trade Wars, give me those Trade Wars, don’t let them end
Red China is run by pretty clever men who figured out a way to make the USA dependent on them. But in trying to chain the U.S. economy to them, the communists also chained themselves to the U.S. economy.
The Hidden War: How China’s Counterfeit Parts Are Quietly Crippling American Industry
The Chinese counterfeit market has become a silent juggernaut. Bearings, capacitors, PPE, and structural steel industries across the U.S. are flooded with subpar, sometimes dangerous knock-offs.
The Stock Market and President Trump, by Joe Cantu
This is the first of what we hope will be periodic updates on the economy and the markets. There is no monetary relationship whatsoever, either cash or in kind between Mr Cantu’s company and AFNN.
Manufacturing, Onshoring, and the Trouble with Timing
American manufacturing has been declining for half a century. It hasn’t disappeared, of course; manufacturing is still a big part of the American economy. But it’s not what it was, and that’s a problem.
Tariffs Won’t Fix the Rust Belt or Small Towns
Trump’s tariffs may be a big shift away from globalization or just a bargaining ploy. Regardless, tariffs isn’t an antidote to devastating changes.
Stay the course on tariffs; The Donald is saving us from imports and the federal government.
Billionaire Bill Ackman’s feet got cold over tariffs. He’s calling for a 90-day delay on imposing tariffs on the world because the Dow fell precipitously. He wants to avoid Trump taking the blame for a global economic meltdown.
Screen Angels
Not only did Disney’s latest film Snow White take a pounding from the critics, but it also lost at the box office. According to The Hollywood Reporter during its opening weekend, the movie grossed $86.1 million falling short of its $100 million goal.
Krugman vs. Trump on tariffs
President Trump imposed tariffs on nations that take advantage of our free trade policy. The cheaters include nations that we protect with our military at our expense. Our NATO allies roll us like we are the town drunk.
When Did Success Become a Crime?
At what point did we decide that the hardworking shoulders carrying this country should be kicked instead of thanked?
Vioxx & Roll: How Big Pharma Turned Heart Attacks Into a Business Model
Once upon a time in the magical land of Shareholder Value, a pharmaceutical giant named Merck gazed deep into the void of human suffering and asked the question all noble drugmakers must ask: “How can we make arthritis treatment more profitable than oil?”
The Trouble With Tariffs
Focused, temporary tariffs designed to level the playing field may or may not work as designed. Permanent tariffs kill capital which kills jobs.
Vance Destroys Anti-Tariff Argument
When I was in college, I worked in a factory and it paid for a house, a car and college. I can attest to the skill level.
The Private Sector. They Expect Results. So Should The Public.
As bureaucrats in the US and elsewhere, are being required to work and justify their existence, they are upset. Welcome to the real world.
Trade whores Can Canada survive a 19% drop in its GDP?
As you read or view media reports on Trump’s Trade Wars, bear in mind these facts. Mexico’s GDP is $1.8 trillion a year. Its exports to the United States are $506 billon a year. Exports to the USA make up 28% of its economy. Exports to Mexico make up less than 2% of our $27.7 …
What Snow White could have been; The moral to the story matters more than the DEI hiring
When my mother took me to see Snow White, everyone fell in love with Snow White. I immediately fell for the wicked Queen. —Woody Allen in Annie Hall, 1977 It is not kosher to begin a newsletter quoting Woody Allen because he married his daughter or something like that. OK, it was his crazy girlfriend’s …