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  • Because of Biden, Recession Is Inevitable. Brace for More Bleeding.

    05/18/2022 5:43:01 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 25 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | May 18, 2022 | Harrison Rogers
    Assume the worst. That’s the lesson of Bidenomics in 2022. America’s economy is contracting. The U.S. inflation rate remains above eight percent, with gas prices hitting record highs across the country. And the stock market continues to bleed, undoing the gains of the Trump era. Remember when Americans could expect 13.7 percent annualized S&P 500 returns? How times change—and in under two years, no less. If we’re not in an economic recession already, then it’s not far away either. As a longtime entrepreneur, investor, and job creator, I’ve seen businesses large and small struggle to stay afloat in today’s economy....
  • The Trump Economic Record Looks Better Every Day

    12/28/2021 4:56:15 AM PST · by Kaslin · 17 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | December 28, 2021 | Stephen Moore
    When running against Donald Trump for president, Joe Biden often made the now-ironic charge that any president who has allowed so many deaths from COVID-19 should never be in the White House. Today, there are more deaths from COVID under Biden than under Trump -- and that is even with the vaccine. But it isn't just on health issues that Trump's presidency is looking so much better and competent in hindsight. Everywhere I go these days, people come up to me and say something like this: "I didn't like some of the things Trump said or the way he acted,...
  • November’s Jobs Numbers Confirm Biden Is a Failed President

    12/07/2021 6:31:53 AM PST · by Kaslin · 21 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | December 7, 2021 | Tommy Hicks
    The November jobs numbers are in, and the results confirm what most Americans already know: Joe Biden’s economic agenda is a disaster. On Friday the Labor Department reported the economy added a paltry 210,000 jobs in November. That’s not just missing the mark – it’s less than half the number economists predicted, making November the worst jobs report of this year. Sadly, underwhelming jobs reports are the new normal when it comes to this administration. In three of the past four months the economy has added far fewer jobs than economists expected. November’s dismal jobs report fits into a larger...
  • AOC’s Inflation Solution: More Government Spending

    11/06/2021 4:32:15 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 30 replies
    Towmhall.com ^ | November 6, 2021 | Chris Talgo
    Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has a degree in economics from Boston University, yet she still misunderstands the most basic of economic principles: supply and demand. According to Ocasio-Cortez, the solution to across-the-board, runaway inflation is massive government spending. Per a recent tweet from AOC, “If you are worried about inflation, it’s important to understand why it’s happening: supply chain, labor, and healthcare complications. We can address these issues by investing in infrastructure, wages, healthcare & benefits. AKA signing BBB/BIF into law as absolute, bare minimum.” AOC would like for you to believe that all the economic problems that are stifling...
  • Stop Calling Them Progressives!

    05/24/2021 6:49:17 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 21 replies
    Townhal.com ^ | May 24, 2021 | Joy Overbeck
    When I hear prominent conservative media commentators and brainy columnists call America-haters bent on destroying our noble Constitutional Republic “progressives” I feel the top of my head may fly up and stick on the ceiling. They should know better. The sickening behavior of these tyrannical anarchists are the very opposite of progressive which Webster defines as “continuous improvement; the development of an individual or group in a direction considered more beneficial than and superior to the previous level.” There’s nothing beneficial for us as citizens or our nation about lawlessness, destruction of private property by black-masked Antifa terrorists, attacks on...
  • Democrats Follow the 'Science' and Reject Common Sense

    05/18/2021 5:41:21 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 12 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | May 18, 2021 | Stephen Moore
    Every time I hear Democrats sermonize about following "the science," I feel as though I'm listening to members of the Flat Earth Society. Science is what the left wants to believe to be true. It has become a way to shut off debate, not advance it. Remember: These were the fools who told us to shut down our schools for a year. We are seeing the debasement of common sense in full bloom now on the economic front. When the latest disappointing jobs report was released with unemployment rising, the Democrats refused to acknowledge that their high welfare benefits kept...
  • Employers Beg for Workers: 'It's the Economy, Stupid'

    05/13/2021 8:00:57 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 26 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | May 11, 2021 | John Kass
    Have you ever wondered what happens to flat-earthers? Not all spend their days eating pudding with plastic spoons and rewatching old sitcoms -- or as fabulists hanging at the end of the bar, boasting of their heroic exploits until closing time. Some become president of the United States. Or they find power in President Joe Biden's administration and join him in gaslighting the nation about that dismal April jobs report as businesses struggle to emerge from those government pandemic shutdowns. With so many Americans now vaccinated, economists predicted about 1 million more Americans would find work, but only 266,000 jobs...
  • America, Here Comes the Great Depression 2.0

    04/24/2021 5:26:26 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 88 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | April 24, 2021 | Joseph Semrevivo
    Even as millions of Americans are vaccinated, the COVID-19 pandemic has left the U.S. economy in shambles.Mortgage rates are climbing above 3 percent, while gas prices are skyrocketing—increasing more than 50 cents per gallon, with no end in sight. There is a global shortage of computer chips, generators, and houses. America’s housing market is nearly 4 million homes short of buyer demand, undermining the career prospects of Millennials and other generations. At the same time, businesses of all sizes continue to be crushed by COVID-related restrictions, especially in blue states. In February, nearly one-quarter of U.S. small and medium-sized businesses...
  • It's Time For Economic Progress

    02/27/2021 8:47:12 AM PST · by Kaslin · 4 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | February 21, 2021 | Robert Blackwell, Jr
    2020 was a strange and painful year for all Americans - no need to rehash the obvious. The real question is where do we go from here? I contend that 2021 is a do or die year for Black economic progress. Organizations have been compelled, unlike ever before, to finally do business with Black-owned companies. Any deviation from this course of action will be met with swift and deliberate resistance. We can no longer tolerate the all too familiar mountain of fluffy corporate marketing about the tenets and values of diversity and inclusion; change needs to happen TODAY. We can...
  • Support American Workers? Oppose the PRO Act

    02/19/2021 3:46:56 AM PST · by Kaslin · 3 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | February 18, 2021 | Gabriella Hoffman
    Politicians are fighting for American workers, they tell us.They claim to represent their interests and endlessly beat the “pro-worker” drum. Does their rhetoric match their actions? Hardly. How can one be “pro-worker” while supporting legislation that destroys freelancing and displaces 59 million gig workers? They can’t. This position is anti-worker to the core. A growing share of the U.S. workforce—36 percent—is participating in the gig economy, compared to 10.8 percent that is unionized. Don’t be fooled by the PRO Act’s promise to “restore fairness” to the economy. It’s a Trojan horse designed to quash our nation’s burgeoning independent workforce. Dissecting...
  • The Wrong Rx for Pennsylvania's Post-pandemic Recovery

    02/13/2021 5:59:56 AM PST · by Kaslin · 22 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | February 13, 2021 | Colin McNickle
    The coronavirus pandemic hammered Pennsylvania’s economy in 2020. But the key to economic recovery -- once a more predictable regimen of vaccinations is firmly in place and Covid-19 begins to abate -- must be a careful study in what government should and should not do, stress researchers at the Allegheny Institute for Public Policy. “With recently released state employer payroll data for December, the extent of the damage can clearly be seen,” say Frank Gamrat, executive director of the Pittsburgh think tank, and Jake Haulk, its president-emeritus. “Pennsylvanians lost jobs in nearly every sector, pushing employment to decade-ago levels,” the...
  • The Rocky Shoals of “Unity”… 2021-style

    01/23/2021 4:10:34 AM PST · by Kaslin · 7 replies
    Townhall. ^ | January 23, 2021 | Tom Tradeup
    Well, that didn’t take long: the applause from the few socially-distanced attendees for Joe Biden’s repeated call for “unity” in his Inaugural Address had barely died down before the 46th president had already eliminated his first 1,000 jobs.Seated at the Resolute Desk Office, one of Biden’s first acts was to sign an Executive Order killing the Keystone XL Pipeline…a much-needed project that would have carried over 830,000 barrels of oil from Canada to the United States. Calgary-based TC Energy announced that due to Biden’s order, it was immediately eliminating over 1,000 construction jobs; industry analysts predict the shutdown will strike...
  • Costs Must Be Weighed Against Benefits

    12/09/2020 3:54:05 AM PST · by Kaslin · 7 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | December 9, 2020 | Walter E.Williams
    Editor's Note: Walter Williams passed away last Wednesday. You can read our tribute to him here.One of the first lessons in an economics class is every action has a cost. That is in stark contrast to lessons in the political arena where politicians virtually ignore cost and talk about benefits and free stuff. If we look only at the benefits of an action, policy, or program, then we will do anything because there is a benefit to any action, policy, or program. Think about one simple example. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates that 36,096 Americans lost their lives...
  • Trump Is Still Winning on the Economy

    12/08/2020 6:22:07 AM PST · by Kaslin · 1 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | December 8, 2020 | Cal Thomas
    Some people can't handle success. The latest jobs report shows that despite the pandemic President Trump's policies of lower taxes and reducing regulations continue to work. Raising taxes and imposing regulations, as Joe Biden has pledged to do, has historically had the opposite effect, but there are people who continue to deny the history, believe lies, and appear ignorant of sound economic theory. Yes, some businesses are struggling, or have closed, thanks to arbitrary orders from politicians, some of whom ignore their own directives. Employers added 245,000 jobs in November, down from 638,000 jobs the previous month. Overall, future signs...
  • Worthless Heirs

    12/05/2020 4:53:15 AM PST · by Kaslin · 11 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | December 5, 2020 | John C. Goodman
    Source: P Photo/Charles Krupa Sam Jacobs is a 25-year-old on a mission. He’s trying to get possession of his trust fund, which holds more than $30 million.What does he want to do with the money? Use it to destroy the very system that made his trust fund possible: capitalism.Jacobs is not alone. According to The New York Times article “Silver-Spoon Socialists,” there are legions of young people just like him. The Democratic Socialists of America has recently been transformed from a fringe group of older leftists to a national organization 100,000 strong – with most of its members under 35...
  • Wisconsin Unemployment Agency Delivering Unhappy Holidays

    11/28/2020 4:04:11 AM PST · by Kaslin · 13 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | November 28, 2020 | M.D. Kittle
    MADISON — As the holidays approach, thousands of Wisconsinites are still waiting for their Unemployment Insurance benefits to come through months after they first applied. Now, Gov. Tony Evers’ interim Department of Workforce Development secretary is saying she hopes to have much of the unemployment backlog cleared by the New Year. The new goal, after the last disgraced DWD chief said the mountain of claims would be settled by last month, isn’t much consolation for claimants who have been waiting since July. Like Shelli Wodsedalek. The Manitowoc tax professional this week posted on the Wisconsin Unemployment Facebook page that her...
  • Blacks of Yesteryear and Today

    11/04/2020 4:33:53 AM PST · by Kaslin · 3 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | November 4, 2020 | Walter E. Williams
    I was a teenager, growing up in the Richard Allen housing project of North Philadelphia, when Emmett Till was lynched in Money, Mississippi, on Aug. 28, 1955, and his brutalized, unrecognizable body later recovered from the Tallahatchie River. From 1882-1968, 4,743 lynchings occurred in the United States. Roughly 73%, or 3,446, were black people, and 27%, or 1,297, were white people. Many whites were lynched because they were Republicans who supported their fellow black citizens and opposed the lawless act of lynching. Tuskegee University has the best documentation of lynching. It records an 1892 high of 69 whites and 161...
  • No, Joe Biden Won’t Just Punish Big Business. Bidenomics Threatens Small Business, Too.

    10/28/2020 2:07:20 PM PDT · by Kaslin · 6 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | October 28, 2020 | Joseoh Semprevivo
    After Joe Biden vowed to “transition” from oil, corporate America was put on high alert. This is the same Joe Biden who previously voiced support for having fossil fuels “eliminated.” But the Biden agenda is not just a threat to the energy industry, or even Big Business in general. Bidenomics means higher taxes and more regulations for businesses large and small. In fact, small business would bear a disproportionately heavy burden under a Biden administration.One example is a $15 federal minimum wage, which Biden supported again in the debate. Grappling with the COVID-19 pandemic, small business owners are under immense...
  • Joe Biden’s Planned Economic Fiasco Should Cement a Donald Trump Victory

    10/20/2020 3:55:44 PM PDT · by Kaslin · 9 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | October 20, 2020 | Brad Slager
    In this era of Covid, media distemper, "calling of lids," Russian collusion, and Ukraine fracking email scandals, it is difficult for more conventional campaign issues to come to the fore in this election. I mean let’s be honest, education spending and infrastructure projects, for example, are not likely to nudge topics like crack-fume-infused laptops off of the front page of news sites.  Granted, while economic policy is not the sexiest of debate topics, it would serve President Trump well to invoke the issue on Thursday in his final debate with Biden. Joe has proposed some rather extreme measures that should...
  • Blacks and Trump

    09/30/2020 5:53:54 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 3 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | September 30, 2020 | Star Parker
    Source: Official White House Photo by Shealah CraigheadPresident Donald Trump just rolled out his new "Black Economic Empowerment Platinum Plan." The plan focuses on building on his achievements since 2016 to improve the lives of black Americans by creating more opportunity to participate in a growing economy and to achieve greater security in life and property. A poll by The Hill and HarrisX released almost a month ago, after the Republican convention, showed approval for Trump surging among blacks, to 24% -- triple the 8% he got in the 2016 election. A recent Washington Post/ABC poll and a recent Wall...