Once upon a time June was “school’s out” month and as far as we know it still is. But apparently not by the lights of the BLS, which reported this morning that state and local school authorities hired an additional 64,000 teachers and administrators in June! In turn, this acute rebuke to normal seasonality accounted […]

Self-evidently, what passes for Trump-O-Nomics is likely to result in colossal failure because it functions exactly like an unhinged two-footed driver. That is, navigating with one foot hard upon the accelerator and the other pressing stoutly on the brake pedal. At the same time. Thus, massive Federal deficits and the Donald’s prescription for 1-2% interest […]

There is only one explanation as to how the so-called conservative party looked 10-year baseline deficits of $22 trillion straight in the eye, yet then genuflected to the King of Debt and voted to add $5 trillion more red ink on top. Or even more egregiously, GOP policy-makers were was told by CBO that the […]

Well, this figures. Back in the day we had to keep a close watch on Martin Feldstein, who was the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors in the Reagan White House. That’s because he was a closet Keynesian looking to polish his curriculum vitae—the president’s supply-side policy to the contrary notwithstanding. So we are […]

Sure, Zohran Mamdani, surprise winner of the Dem primary for New York City mayor, is an ultra left-wing wackadoo. But it occurs to us that this veritable assault on sanity— via the election of a 33 year-old nincompoop who wants rent controls, free day care, communist grocery stores and confiscatory taxes on the wealthy who […]

We had never even included GOP Senator Thom Tillis on our Wall of Shame list of sketchy RINOs of the likes of Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski. Yet here he comes bounding to the Senate floor with a saboteur’s IED (improvised explosive device) aimed at the one decent savings provision of the OBBBA abomination. We […]

The Donald seems to be continuing his bombing campaign, albeit this time by pivoting back to the home front and taking aim at “Too Late” Jay. As usual, Trump has he facts all wrong about who has had how many rate cuts and that inflation has miraculously disappeared since January 20th. In fact, if anything […]