1+ mon, 6+ day ago   (224+ words) Both nonfarm payroll employment (-23,000) and the unemployment rate (4.1 percent) changed little in July, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Employment declined in local government education and retail trade. Employment continued to trend up in health care. Time will tell…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago   (702+ words) We all intuitively know that prices are rising faster than the Consumer Price Index (CPI) indicates. We feel the pain every time we go to the grocery store or gas station. But just how much is price inflation impacting us…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (531+ words) The Treasury Department has blocked nearly $100 million in taxpayer money from going to dead people since implementing a government-wide payment verification process last year, The Post has learned. The department’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service discovered the money set to…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (256+ words) ...Professor Michael Hudson characterizes the relationship between creditors and debtors as a 5,000 year long war which in our time is being won by the creditors. Indeed, an independent oligarchy of creditors has been created and is currently buying up land…...

2+ mon, 1+ day ago   (280+ words) Economics 101: Increase supply and prices go down. Raise demand, and prices go up. That's what we are seeing in spades in the housing market in the wake of Joe Biden releasing as many as 14 million illegals into the interior of…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (595+ words) The U.S. national debt has crossed an ominous threshold, rising above 100 percent of national gross domestic product, or GDP. This is the first time since World War II that debt has been so high a percentage of national economic output. That…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (214+ words) Deregulation, tax cuts, and a fundamental trust in the power of private enterprise across the Atlantic stand in sharp contrast to the sluggish, apathetic-socialist policies of Germany and the European Union -- and not in Europe’s favor. While German industry is…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (208+ words) Audie Cornish is back at her cherry-picking antics. Yesterday, the CNN This Morning host managed to find two Texas Republicans who said they wouldn't vote for Ken Paxton in the Texas senatorial general election. Today, Audie began a segment on…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (823+ words) Consumer sentiment has tumbled to a fresh record low in May as fears of higher prices grow due to the U.S.-Iran war and elevated oil prices, the University of Michigan’s Surveys of Consumers said Friday. The index of consumer sentiment…...