Gene therapy might sound a lot like science fiction, and at one point it was, but the fiction part is beginning to translate into real promise, and on the brink of becoming reality. The science of gene therapy has been around for years, and has always held the promise for some real breakthroughs in the […]
With the Fed still forecasting at least one rate hike in 2019, if not two, and no one really talking much about a rate cut, this does not suggest that things may get unmanageable. One of the questions that people are asking, in the midst of the economic slowdown that we’re seeing, is whether the […]
$22 Trillion of debt is a huge amount, almost beyond comprehension, but when you add in $70 trillion more, the number gets a lot bigger. It’s also about to grow much bigger. There is already lots of concern about the exploding U.S. national debt, but as it turns out, this is more like the part […]
Since the truce was reached on the government shutdown, the hope has been that we’d get this resolved by the deadline. We did, but a state of emergency came with it. If anyone still doubted President Donald Trump’s resolve to build his wall along the Mexican border, his actions today should serve to shed more […]
The number of rate increases expected by the Federal Reserve in 2019 has dropped from two to one lately, and we’re not seeing anything in the CPI to suggest one is needed now. While we entered 2019 with the expectation that the Federal Reserve may have two more rate increases in store for us in […]
The U.S. national debt has been spiraling out of control for some time now, at an accelerating pace. We may not need to worry too much about this, but someone will. Many Americans are concerned to various degrees about the size of the country’s national debt load, and this is certainly well worthy of our […]
Trump’s been using his demand for a $5.7 billion wall to hold up the current spending bill. We’ll soon see if a $1.4 billion fence instead will appease him enough to back off. With the prospects of another protracted government shutdown looming, congressional negotiators have been working hard behind the scenes to put together a […]
In his second State of the Union address, President Donald Trump toned down his normally harsh stances and is now looking like he can get along with people better. In terms of speaking his mind and not pulling any punches, U.S. President Donald Trump is no doubt in a class all by himself. Some may […]