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 […]