This is the era of "economic narcissism" in the words of Gene Sperling, an economic adviser to both Clinton and Obama, as Donald Trump wends his way to this year's G-7 summit, all set to brag about how "incredible"...
Lauren Boebert decided to say Something Profound the other day and so she tweeted about Marxism and Ponzi schemes. That brought a flood of derision her way, so the next day she got back on the electric tweet box...
Maybe Donald Trump's Adderall dosage isn't right, because the following tweets would seem to be the product of a hyperactive mind, tottering on the brink -- especially when taken in tandem with his thirty-four minute rant on the White...
Donald Trump's fantasy explanation of how tariffs work might rouse the base to yet another cheer, which is what it was designed for, but now that pipe dream is going up in smoke as the reality of world economics...
Take a victory lap Mr. President. Another month, another positive monthly jobs report. Last month the US added right around 430,000 jobs, and unemployment ticked down from 3.8% to 3.6%. Even better, a report came out that showed that...
Dusting is a great example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has just been established  George Carlin
You've heard me say it before, the old adage...
With the exceptions of MSNBC and CNN, I don't watch traditional "network" television, but even I'm passingly aware of a television show on CNBC, with a bunch of passably photogenic, moderately coherent venture capitalists giving sad sacks who come...
Sweet Jesus, why is this happening? For some totally inexplicable reason, the Trump White House insists on thinking that sticking Trump out there every day in front of a microphone in the White House press room is a good...
The stock market is the pulse of the world's money. It certainly reflects what's happening in the nervous system of the American economy, and it is minutely sensitive to the vagueries of a certain pair of tiny digits belonging...
I'm sure that you join me in my relief that the party of small government, the Republican Lords of Fiscal Conservatism, are at the helm of the ship of state. That means that everything with the federal budget should...
