With the St. Louis branch of the Federal Reserve projecting a loss of over 47 million jobs and a 32.1% unemployment rate — the Great Depression saw a peak of 24.9% unemployed — Donald Trump wants you to know that…
After weeks of playing a political blame game where Democrats and Republicans took turns trying to out-socialism each other in response to the coronavirus hysteria sweeping the nation, Trump signed the $2 trillion Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES)…
Last week, I reported on a Goldman Sachs estimate that new unemployment filings could increase 800 percent to more than 2 million. The reality was much worse. The sudden onset of the Coronavirus pandemic and associated stay-at-home advisories and orders led…
When I wrote last week’s article entitled “If you liked the TARP bailout, you’re going to love the coronavirus bailout,” I mentioned that Trump and his fellow nationalist Republicans in Congress were promising to spare no expense to deliver the…
Do you remember how George W. Bush attempted to redefine conservatism when he adopted “compassionate conservatism” as a pillar of his presidency? Besides the obvious socialist implications that conservatism wasn’t compassionate, what “W” was really saying is that he held…
Early in his presidency, Trump and his then-Democrat daughter, Ivanka — she recently became a “Trump Republican” — kicked off an event recognizing Women’s Health Week by promoting a few of Ivanka’s socialist feminist priorities. Unsurprisingly, many of the issues…
Though the stock market is only one of the indicators used to measure the health of the U.S. economy, Donald Trump likes to use it as Exhibit A to prove that he’s created “the greatest economy in the history of…