The establishment is in for another shock: President Trump’s administration may soon win significant breakthroughs in our trade agreements. The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) rewrite with Mexico looks close to completion, and Canada cannot be far behind. The Chinese have blinked, apparently alarmed by a slowing economy. At the same time, the U.S. […]
The biggest news story in 2018 is not Omarosa or Stormy Daniels – it is the booming economy, according to Director of the White House Economic Council Larry Kudlow, who made that case to pals at a recent dinner. He is right, of course. The acceleration in U.S. growth, bringing rising wages […]
The sisterhood is not amused. A lesbian feminist has been suspended from her teaching post at New York University for a year, judged to have sexually harassed a gay man who was formerly her graduate student. (Yes, this is a bit confusing.) The accused, Avital Ronell, is described by The New York […]
Just as American businesses were crawling out from the Obama-era regulatory thicket, here comes Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), wanting to put the feds in the C-Suite driver’s seat and their foot on the brake of our economic resurgence. Warren, seeking dry ground amid a flood of progressives wanting to challenge President Trump in 2020, has a new […]
Democrats have declared war on the gig economy. For union-fed politicians, it is a survival tactic. But attacking companies like Lyft and Airbnb could also undermine Democrat support among millennials, who are big fans of the shared economy. Already, support among Americans between the ages of 22 and 37 for the Democratic Party has dropped […]
Michael Avenatti is itching to run for president. On Friday he spoke at the Democratic Wing Ding dinner in Iowa, an appropriate setting and a rite of passage for presidential wannabes. “Michael who?” you might ask – if you’ve been touring the outback for the past six months. Otherwise, you can’t have […]
Larry Summers is grumpy that President Trump is taking credit for the booming economy. Wait until the former mastermind of President Obama’s economic strategy sees the most recent IBD/TIPP Poll. That survey, according to Investor’s Business Daily, shows Americans giving President Trump an “A” for his handling of the economy. The poll shows their “Economic Optimism” […]
Democrats are desperate to convince voters that the improving Trump economy is not helping America’s workers. With their party’s prospects threatened by booming job growth and soaring consumer confidence, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and other Democrats cite still-stingy wage gains as proof that the GOP tax cuts benefited only the wealthy and big […]
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been jilted by President Obama. The former president recently announced 81 endorsements of candidates running in the midterm elections. Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, toast of the progressive movement, did not make the cut. Mr. Obama’s foreign policy maxim “Don’t do stupid stuff” may apply. Embracing the 28- year-old Latina supernova who […]
U.S. workers have finally received a pay hike — the best in nearly a decade. Forgive us for saying: We told you so. The government reported that for the year ending in June, wages and salaries rose 2.8 percent from the year before — the fastest rate of gain since before the financial crisis. The increase […]