7+ mon, 4+ week ago   (472+ words) The top economist at the Heritage Foundation made a compelling case for why President Donald Trump’s jobs numbers are better than the headline figure indicates. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported last week that a total of 50,000 jobs were added…...

9+ mon, 3+ week ago   (425+ words) In a report delayed for more than seven weeks by the federal government shutdown, the Commerce Department said Wednesday that the the gap between what the United States buys from other countries and what it sells them fell to $59.6 billion…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago   (684+ words) There’s a famous line in the movie “The Graduate” where a young Dustin Hoffman receives this bit of career advice from a businessman: “One word, Benjamin: plastics.” He wasn’t talking about credit cards, but he might as well have been....

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1092+ words) Americans may be paying a hidden “lawsuit tax” through higher insurance premiums and higher prices for everyday goods, as trucking companies face rising litigation costs from staged crashes, massive settlements and “nuclear verdicts.” “Abusive litigation practices against the trucking industry…...

2+ mon, 2+ day ago   (713+ words) Many hospitals are destabilizing small businesses across America by exploiting a little-known federal charity care program to drive healthcare costs up. The 340B Drug Pricing Program was supposed to help safety-net hospitals serve vulnerable patients by letting them buy prescription medicines…...

5+ mon, 1+ day ago   (732+ words) Recent press reports and opinion poll results declare the U.S. economy is in worse shape than it was in 2021 through 2024. This impression prevails despite very high gross domestic product growth and falling inflation in the second and third quarters of last…...

10+ mon, 1+ week ago   (741+ words) American shoppers are expected to spend more during this holiday shopping season than last year, despite economic uncertainty and rising prices. The 2025 forecast from the National Retail Federation on Thursday estimated that shoppers will collectively spend between $1.01 trillion and $1.02 trillion…...

8+ mon, 1+ week ago   (375+ words) Well, Donald Trump has done it again! He stumped the chumps. The “chumps” in this case were the “blue chip” academic and financial economists whose consensus forecast this time last year was for high inflation and low economic growth. Wrong…...

4+ mon, 4+ week ago   (388+ words) Federal prosecutors made a surprise visit Tuesday to the construction site of the Federal Reserve’s headquarters renovation project. Workers at the site refused to admit them, saying they did not have clearance in advance of the visit, according to The…...