April 19, 2024

Another Blow Out: American Economy Created 275,000 Jobs In February

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Fmr. Obama Treasury Official Rattner: February CPI ‘Not a Good Thing’ for Getting Inflation to Goal, ‘What the Fed Really Looks at’ ‘Is Rising’

On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Steve Rattner, who served as counselor to the Treasury Secretary in the Obama administration, stated that the core services inflation metric that the Federal Reserve “really looks at” is “rising and that is not a good thing” to getting inflation down to the target level. Rattner said, “[I]nflation looked

Reading of Pastor Joe Wright’s Invocation to the Kansas State Legislature, February 1996

Man, oh, man, they won’t invite Pastor Joe to the Kansas State Legislature again. They invited Pastor Joe Wright of Wichita Central Christian Church to deliver the invocation and he told God on ’em. Now God knows what they’ve been up to. And no sooner has their guest chaplain concluded his prayer and three Democrats […]

Private-sector jobs grow by 235,000 in February, vs 195,000 expected: ADP/Moody’s Analytics.

* Private payrolls rose by 235,000 in February, well above Wall Street estimates of 195,000, according to a report from ADP and Moody’s Analytics * Growth actually decelerated slightly, as January posted an upwardly revised 244,000 from the initially reported 234,000. * The Moody’s/ADP report precedes the more closely watched Labor Department nonfarm payrolls count, […]

Taxpayers Could See Benefits From GOP Tax Bill as Early as February.

Taxpayers could see the benefits from Republicans’ tax reform as early as February, one tax expert says. “Certainly early next year, February probably, businesses will start deducting less from employees’ paychecks, and so there you will see a benefit, you will have higher take-home income when your employer is sending less of your money to […]

The Untold Story (February 2016) – The Evangelical Vote

Ted Cruz took Iowa after winning a third of the evangelical vote.  Rubio and Trump each won about 20 percent. Washington Post  But the 2016 GOP race is distinctive because there are so many candidates trying to woo evangelicals – the three mentioned plus Ben Carson, Mike Huckabee, and Rick Santorum. A long article in […]

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