The Federal Reserve on Wednesday raised interest rates 0.25 points as the bank aims to prevent a tight labor market from driving inflation to unsustainable levels. The central bank raised the federal funds rate to a 1.75–2 percent target range, the second increase under Fed Chairman Jerome Powell. The Fed was widely expected to raise […]
Black, Hispanic unemployment rates hit record lows in April.
May 4, 2018 by
The unemployment rate for black workers hit the lowest on record in April, according to the latest jobs figures released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics Friday. The unemployment rate for black workers dropped to 6.6 percent, beating the previous record low of 6.8 percent set in December. The jobless rate for Hispanics fell to […]
Conservative Heritage Foundation Rates Trump’s First Year Better Than Reagan’s.
January 25, 2018 by
News Flash to Conservatives in the Republican Party – According to the Heritage Foundation President Trump did an amazing job in his first year in office – even better than conservative and American icon President Ronald Reagan! The New York Times reported that the conservative Heritage Foundation ranks President Trump as doing even better than […]
No, Obamacare’s Rising Rates and Evaporating Access Are Not Trump’s Fault
August 23, 2017 by
I’ve written about this issue a few times now, but the Left’s spin about Democrats’ terrible, deteriorating healthcare law — which Republicans have failed to replace, in spite of endless promises — is misleading and not credible. As the story now goes, the reason why Obamacare premiums are soaring by double digits across most of […]
GOOD TRUMP: Trump Plans Huge Cut In Corporate Tax Rates.
April 24, 2017 by
President Trump is having no truck with half-measures when it comes to spurring the economy to grow: he plans to fight for reducing corporate tax rates from their current 35% to 15%. Trump is ignoring those who cavil that the federal deficit will grow substantially because of the reduced revenue accruing to the federal government, […]
Obama Hides Rising Murder Rates, and Hundreds of Dead Americans, in Criminal Statistics
July 12, 2016 by
President Barack Obama is claiming that murder rates are declining in Dallas, Los Angeles and nationwide, even though numerous sources of data shows a nationwide spike in murder since he launched his 2014 stigmatize-and-federalize campaign for the nation’s state and local police forces. “Over the last four or five years during the course of my […]
Surprise! Mass Murder Rates Fell Right Along with Communism – WATCH
May 28, 2016 by
Recent American celebrity fetishism with Cuba and its Potemkin Kardashian Villages is probably giving a lot of millennials the mistaken impression that communism is A-OK. As it is often difficult to communicate concepts to them in words, the good people at Human Progress have provided a nice, easy-to-understand picture: While the chart doesn’t mention communism, […]