Economy

Claims for Unemployment Insurance Drop Again, Near 50-year Low

The U.S. economic juggernaut continues to power ahead, with unemployment reaching new lows. ...

Bob Adelmann July 12, 2018

U.S. Economy “Not Running Out of Workers”; Latest Jobs Report Shows More Gains

Bob Adelmann July 9, 2018

The jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released on Friday showed more than 600,000 people entering or re-entering the workforce....

Gold and Silver Are Money Again in Wyoming

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. July 9, 2018

A bill removing penalities from the use of gold and silver as specie and as legal tender is now the law in Wyoming....

ADP: U.S. Economy Added 177,000 Jobs in June; May’s Numbers Revised Upward to 189,000

Bob Adelmann July 5, 2018

The U.S. economy continues to hum along, according a report by the human services company ADP, and likely to be confirmed by the...

Help for Motorists Is Coming as Crude-oil Prices Drop Sharply

Bob Adelmann July 3, 2018

Tuesday’s sharp drop of two dollars per barrel for crude will, within weeks, push gas prices back down, perhaps to as low as...

U.S. Economic Upsurge and Trump’s Tax and Tariff Policies

Steve Byas June 26, 2018

With some warning that Trump's actions on trade and taxes spell impending economic doom, the facts speak otherwise. ...

Trump Reviving Deep State ExIm Bank?

Christian Gomez June 23, 2018

President Trump's nomination for a new ExIm Bank president suggests he favors reviving the bank notorious for subsiding communist regime's acquisition of sensitive...

Koch Brothers Launch Big-money Campaign Against Trump Tariffs

Bob Adelmann June 22, 2018

The Koch brothers are launching a multimillion-dollar campaign to get Congress to rescind President Trump's ability to renegotiate or withdraw from multinational trade...

Americans’ Satisfaction Highest in 12 Years, Says Gallup

Bob Adelmann June 19, 2018

James Carville was right: Americans vote their pocketbooks. ...

Revenues Grow but Spending Grows Faster — and Deficit Explodes

Bob Adelmann June 13, 2018

For the fiscal year through May, tax revenues of $217 billion were overwhelmed by government spending of $363 billion, creating a fiscal-year-to-date deficit...

More Good News for the U.S. Economy: Job Openings Set New Record

Bob Adelmann June 5, 2018

Though jobs are plentiful, some economists are predicting a downturn, which recalls the truism that economic forecasting makes weather forecasting look good. ...

Robust Jobs Report Erases Concerns About a Slowdown

Bob Adelmann June 1, 2018

The improving U.S. economy appears to be having another ameliorative effect: Talk of the "blue wave" in the Novmber elections has all but...

U.S. Economy Continuing to Fire on All Cylinders

Bob Adelmann May 31, 2018

Polls, surveys, and other economic and financial indicators just released confirm that the U.S. economy continues to generate goods and services at a...