By Robert Romano China’s 10-year experiment with a strong yuan is over. After years of world markets complaining about China’s devaluation policy of a low, fixed exchange rate against the dollar, the People’s Bank of China finally allowed the yuan to begin appreciating in 2005. Fast forward ten years, with emerging markets now collapsing, China’s real estate bubble popped, commodities […]

By Dustin Howard  Peter Roff, who writes for U.S. News and World Report, has recently documented how the Obama Administration’s “watchdogs” are waging war on the car dealers of America, trying to destroy their business model. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) organized an event last week that was “designed to show the franchise model on which the industry operates is […]

By Robert Romano “[Trump could] probably work with Congress, because he’s, you know, he’s got the right personality and he’s kind of a deal-maker.” That was former Senate Majority Leader and failed 1996 Republican presidential nominee Bob Dole all but endorsing Donald Trump in the Republican primary over Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, questioning Cruz’ ability to work with Congress. “Nobody […]

By Nathan Mehrens Should a city buy concrete trucks and start its own construction company if it doesn’t like the demographic makeup of the employees of the construction companies that could do work on city construction projects? Most people with any experience around government operations would scoff at the notion, yet last year, Akron, Ohio considered doing exactly that. This […]

By Robert Romano Consider this. If Mitt Romney had beaten Barack Obama for the presidency in 2012, he more than likely would have been running for reelection into the jaws of the current major market correction in commodities and equities, and what may wind up being the beginning of an overall crash and recession to follow. Mostly because, by all […]

By Marita Noon By now, most people are aware of President Obama’s 2008 campaign promise to bankrupt the coal industry — which he acknowledged would “necessarily” cause electricity to skyrocket. Seven years later, that is a campaign promise he is keeping. Since moving into the White House, Obama has used bureaucratic weapons and administrative agencies to assault America’s coal industry. […]

By Rick Manning The nation’s political eyes are on Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina for the beginning of the 2016 presidential selection process with the rural South and Texas following hot on their heels.  It is obvious that agriculture issues play a heavy role in the presidential nominating process, but these issues also are important come November. Toss up […]

By Dustin Howard Spoiler alert: If you have not seen the movie, 13 Hours, and do not wish to have the movie spoiled, read no further. I married a beautiful, non-political woman who watched 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi with me last weekend. Upon leaving the theater, my wife was in tears. “Why didn’t they send help?” she […]

By Rick Manning House Republicans left dozens of important policy riders and measures that defund various parts of the Obama agenda on the table during the failed omnibus negotiation, but that doesn’t mean that their work should go for naught. Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) is bringing together many of the most important economic riders into a single bill, The Article […]

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