economy

Lions, Tigers, And Bears: Oh, My! Our Employees We Elected To Run Our Country Once Again Fail To Pass A Budget On Time (Yawn) And Begin The Charades, Reindeer Games And Finger Pointing (Again)

October 2, 2025October 2, 2025 by Max Dribbler

The Fiscal Year (2026) Begins With The Shocking (It’s Shocking I tell You) Ecoutez Et Repetez Of The Perennial Washington DC Political Follies The players may change from time to time, but the game remains the same no matter who gets in office. This faux outrage and gamesmanship has been going on since you know …

3% growth? Not bad, Donald, not bad

August 1, 2025 by Don Surber

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.

Measuring the Effectiveness of Lessons and Punishments

July 17, 2025 by John F. Di Leo

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?”

President Trump Extends the Tariff Deadline – One More Time

July 8, 2025July 8, 2025 by John F. Di Leo

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.

Lessons from the Del Monte Bankruptcy

July 4, 2025 by John F. Di Leo

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.

To Save the USA – We MUST Stop Being 70+% Consumption Economy

June 18, 2025 by Seton Motley

The United States is currently a 70+% consumption economy. Meaning for every $10 of economic activity? $7+ dollars of it is someone buying something.

A Sanctions Regime as a Foreign Policy Tool

May 24, 2025 by John F. Di Leo

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.

Retail Bias in the Headlines

May 8, 2025 by John F. Di Leo

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.

Free Speech, Free Trade, and the English-Speaking Worldview

May 1, 2025 by John F. Di Leo

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.

President Trump and the Fight to Save American Retail

April 24, 2025 by John F. Di Leo

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.

Manufacturing, Onshoring, and the Trouble with Timing

April 17, 2025 by John F. Di Leo

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 Flight 93 Trade War

April 14, 2025 by Seton Motley

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.

Beware the Taxman

April 6, 2025 by Rob Pue

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 Does an Energy Source Really Work?

March 26, 2025 by John F. Di Leo

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.

The Fabric of Society Suffers Another Blow

February 27, 2025 by John F. Di Leo

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.

USA is refuge for manufacturing; Red China, England and Europe are making America the safe place for factories

February 26, 2025 by Don Surber

Tim Cook, the head of Apple, met with Trump at Mar-a-Lago in mid-December and paid $1 million to attend the inauguration.

The Reindustrialization of America – and Its Most Stubborn Opposition

February 18, 2025 by John F. Di Leo

President Trump’s campaign to bring back serious manufacturing – light, heavy and in-between – has never been popular with the Left. I wonder why.

Tax Dollars Chasing a Fantasy

January 25, 2025 by John F. Di Leo

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. …

The Economy and the Election – With Just Days to Go

October 30, 2024 by John F. Di Leo

A century ago, relatively few Americans had investments. The stock market was for the rich – or so we thought.

If the Dow Keeps Climbing, Things MUST Be Okay! Right?

October 19, 2024 by John F. Di Leo

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.