Feb 25, 2025 | ECONOMY, TRUMP
U.S. consumer confidence plummeted in February, the biggest monthly decline in more than four years, a business research group said Tuesday, with inflation seemingly stuck and a trade war under President Donald Trump seen by a growing number of Americans as...
Feb 25, 2025 | ECONOMY, TRUMP
Feb 25, 2025 | ECONOMY, TRUMP
Trump recently attacked the US trade agreements with Mexico and Canada. He said: “I blame our leadership for allowing it to happen,” suggesting that it was the Biden administration that made them. For those of you who don’t have dementia, selective...
Feb 12, 2025 | ECONOMY, TRUMP
Inflation Rate Picked Up In January, CPI Report Shows. Here’s What It Means For Your Money. Inflation accelerated in January, rising 3% on an annual basis, indicating that the Federal Reserve’s push to drive inflation down to a 2% annual rate has stalled...
Feb 9, 2025 | ECONOMY, TRUMP
Changeover among federal government agencies is normal when a new administration comes to Washington. But President Donald Trump has implemented sweeping changes in the first days of his second administration, from firing career agency employees to freezing trillions...
Feb 9, 2025 | ECONOMY, TRUMP
During the 2024 presidential race, Donald Trump repeatedly claimed that the U.S. economy was terrible under then-President Joe Biden and then-Vice President Kamala Harris. But according to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) figures, unemployment stayed under 4.0...
Feb 5, 2025 | ECONOMY, TRUMP
But what was once thought of as an outside advisory board is now very much inside the federal government and drawing an official salary, so to speak. Nearly $7 million has been “apportioned” over the past week to cover the agency’s expenses, while the administration...
Feb 2, 2025 | ECONOMY, TRUMP
This customer got a notice that even those on contract will have a price hike.
Jan 28, 2025 | ECONOMY, TRUMP
Trump is banking on voters giving him a pass and continuing to blame former President Joe Biden for high prices. The Republican’s comments reflect the reality that presidents have almost no levers to reduce inflation quickly without causing collateral damage to other...
Jan 25, 2025 | ECONOMY, TRUMP
So Trump supporters are losing jobs. Who knew? Shane Kearney of Atlanta was another person who applied for seasonal work with the National Parks, in his case at Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. Details may have been thin on the Trump guy, but Shane was more than willing...
Jan 23, 2025 | ECONOMY, TRUMP
Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) proposed an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would allow President Trump to serve a third term in the White House so that the country “can sustain the bold leadership our nation so desperately needs.” “President Trump’s decisive...
Jan 23, 2025 | ECONOMY, TRUMP
An aide to House Speaker Mike Johnson advised Republican colleagues against subpoenaing former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson as part of their investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack in an effort to prevent the release of sexually explicit texts that...
