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Category Archives: the Economy
The unemployment continues to fall. Tariffs will reverse the trend. Reply
The February jobs report just came out, and it totally exceeded expectations with the news that 313,000 new non-farm jobs were created. Economists expected only 200,000.
As you can see in the chart above, the unemployment rate has dropped to about as low as it can get at four percent. This is good stuff. More…
Donald Trump doesn’t learn from history Reply
Key Trump rust belt states, such as Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and West Virginia lost jobs last time we imposed these types of tariffs.
Will they stick with Republicans next go ’round if they’re back in the unemployment line? Tariffs are tax increases and job killers for working class American families. You know, Trump voters. More…
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“It’s the economy, stupid” Reply
The economy grew an average of just 2% a year under Barack Obama. This was about a point less than our historic post World War II average.
The Left dismissed the anemic results as the “new normal.”
It looks as if the ‘new normal’ is history. Under President Trump, the economy has grown an average of 3% each of the past two quarters. In addition, Standard & Poor’s Dow Jones average has grown 20% since Mr. Trump’s election a year ago. More…
