Will the Federal Reserve squash the Trump economy? No, Here’s why: The booming growth we are experiencing is founded on optimism, which continues to move higher. The Conference Board reported last week that its Consumer Confidence Index rose 2.4 points in May and reached its highest reading in more than 17 years. The breadth and depth of that optimism is […]

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      Bill Maher is hoping for a recession. He’s probably not alone. Like most Democrats, the talk show host understands that the booming economy is the single biggest impediment to his party unseating President Trump in 2020 and to winning majority control of the House of Representatives in November. But how truly pitiful […]

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      Is Nancy Pelosi a secret agent for the Republican Party? Sometimes you have to wonder.  Her latest outburst, in which she derides the accelerating economy and declining unemployment, is so nonsensical that it demeans Democrats’ credibility, shows them to be remarkably out of touch with average Americans and underscores the poverty of […]

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Emmanuel Macron is having a “crise de colere;” that’s French for hissy fit. In the run-up to the Group of Seven (G-7) meeting, the French president joined with Germany’s Angela Merkel in warning that he would refuse to sign a joint statement from the G-7 unless the U.S. demonstrates a willingness to shift its position […]

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Nothing horrifies the intelligentsia more than President Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris Agreement on climate change. But, based on new information on China’s emissions, it increasingly looks like the president made the right call. Just last week, an analysis from Greenpeace indicated that China’s 2018 carbon emissions were on track to grow at the fastest rate […]

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Americans are getting a crash course in why the Brits chose Brexit. After driving the English away by dictating rules on everything from ferret imports to fruit juice labels to what kind of electric tea kettles they could buy, EU bureaucrats have now taken up regulating the internet. The new GDPR impacts businesses everywhere, is likewise […]

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