Citizen Writers Fighting Censorship by Helping Americans Understand Issues Affecting the Republic.
The GDP fell by 0.5% in the first quarter which featured the last 20 days of Biden auto penning government policy and pardons. But we learned on Wednesday that the GDP rose 3% in the second quarter, the first full quarter with our favorite president back. The growth pushed Americans into the world’s first $30 trillion economy.
Did we hit Iran hard enough before we stopped? This is always the question, anytime you engage in diplomacy, warfare, or a combination of the two. When it becomes necessary to do something, the question is “How much?”
The Trump Administration has extended the international tariff negotiation deadline by another three weeks – giving countries until August 1 instead of July 9 to come to a deal.
Depressing news from the business world: Del Monte Foods filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy this week, with all divisions potentially up for sale. The Del Monte brand has been around for over 135 years.
The United States is currently a 70+% consumption economy. Meaning for every $10 of economic activity? $7+ dollars of it is someone buying something.
When a head of state – such as the President of the United States, for example – wants to encourage certain behaviors in a foreign government, the toolbox is limited.
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.
Vice President Vance has informed British PM Keir Starmer that fixing Great Britain’s outrageous constraints on free speech will be a requirement to achieve a trade agreement between the U.S.A. and the U.K.
If you think bringing American manufacturing jobs back is a steep climb, it’s nothing compared to one of the key efforts this year: saving America’s retail sector.
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.
The Globalist trade status quo has been AWFUL for the United States. For many, MANY decades. DC has happily served as the world’s butcher.
Historically, April 15 has not been a good day. On April 15, 1865, Abraham Lincoln died after being shot in the head the previous evening. On April 15, 1912, 1500 people died when the Titanic sank
When you do the math – the real math, the “big picture” math – you find that wind and solar energy cost about seven times as much as traditional sources like gas, coal, oil and nuclear power plants.
Joann’s bankruptcy is both a casualty of a cultural shortcoming and a contributing cause of that shortcoming’s growth. It is a vicious circle.
Tim Cook, the head of Apple, met with Trump at Mar-a-Lago in mid-December and paid $1 million to attend the inauguration.
President Trump’s campaign to bring back serious manufacturing – light, heavy and in-between – has never been popular with the Left. I wonder why.
In an attempt to shame and insult the people who were revealing unsavory stories about Bill Clinton a generation ago, Democrat campaign consultant James Carville famously said “Drag a hundred dollar bill through a trailer park, you never know what you’ll find.” Charming, isn’t it, learning how the Democrats really feel about the American public. …
A century ago, relatively few Americans had investments. The stock market was for the rich – or so we thought.
Frankly, the stock market has roughly held even with inflation since Jan 20, 2021. It hasn’t really grown, it’s been flat, by expanding in ever-more-worthless currency.
From a public policy perspective, the most effective time to begin addressing lessons learned….is during the event. The horrible destruction wrought by Hurricane Helene is a perfect, tragic example, and it is front-of-mind right now.