economy

The U.S. economic recovery stumbled but didn’t collapse at the end of last year, setting the stage for a much stronger rebound this year. According to Yahoo Finance, the U.S. economy expanded in [...]

According to recent reporting from Bloomberg on July 11th, 2020, the U.S. reopening and economic recovery from the Coronavirus-induced recession is leveling off and showing signs of hitting some [...]

The Trump administration’s new proposed budget is the complete opposite of his Democratic rivals as it suggests deeply cutting some social safety net programs. On February 11, the White House [...]

Recently Ben Carlson wrote an interesting article on Fortune about some of his predictions of what could happen when the next recession hits the US economy. He claimed, “unless the GDP suddenly [...]

According to recent reporting from CNN and the WSJ, about June’s Monthly Treasury Report statement. Government Tax receipts rose slightly in June from Trump’s tariffs, but is was not nearly [...]

Small businesses, economists and others are sending stern warnings to the Trump administration that hiking tariffs on Chinese goods will raise costs for U.S. consumers and impair the ability of [...]

  On March 11, 2019 the Trump administration proposed a $4.7 billion budget for fiscal year 2020, which starts officially on October 1, 2019.  With the President’s proposed budget, the [...]

Because Trump and Republicans like to brag that U.S. unemployment levels are at their lowest in nearly 50 years, with some businesses even griping about labor shortages (skills gap), one might [...]

A year seems like a long time, especially when you’re talking about the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA.)  Despite this supposed long period of 365 days, we have to remember that the economy is [...]