Category: Economics

I stole this from social media after I vetted it…chart below: and four years ago: and as I finish this post:

Stock market today: S&P 500, Dow hit fresh records

Yes, I know that the President of the United States has little control and influence over gasoline prices. They are mostly determined by international availability and demand. But, flock. if Donald Trump can campaign against President Joe Biden on the lie of $8.00 per gallon pricing…I can attribute the current…

Imagine that! After all of the noise and smoke around finally selecting Rep. Mike Johnson (R -LA) as Speaker of the House…and all of the praise he received…and promises that he could bring the caucus together and get things done…”House Republicans abruptly scrapped their legislative work on Thursday and left…

Yes, I realize that the Bong Recreation Park is named after Wisconsin resident Richard Bong, who was a fighter pilot ace and hero in World War II. And no I am not belittling him in any way…but sometimes the humor suggests itself. But over the past year or so there…

With a Democrat in the governor’s seat and Republicans in charge of both the state assembly and senate, and given the current national political environment, it is inevitable that there would be a fight around taxes in the biennial budget discussion. Coming off the current fiscal period that saw a…

No, I am not talking about the things that the left is complaining that Joe Biden gave away. No, I am not talking about the fact that after insisting that there would be no discussions or negotiations…that the White House negotiated with McCarthy and the GOP in the House. I…

So the federal debt limit is just a federal law. Easily changed when the will is there. But the Trump Cabal and MAGA trolls don’t like federal laws when they would seem to hinder their will…and simply ignore them with abandon. So why doesn’t Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen…