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Aug 12, 2026 ~ 'Jobless Claims Remain Below 200,000 For Third Straight Week—First Time in 57 Years'   "Jobless claims have been below 200,000 for three consecutive weeks, the first such streak in 57 years. The last time jobless claims remained this low for this long was in 1969, during the extraordinary stretch of low unemployment from 1967 through 1969. The current numbers are all the more extraordinary because the workforce is more than twice as large and the last period’s labor numbers benefited from a military draft to support the Vietnam War." [Economy, Trump Win]
Aug 12, 2026 ~ "Report: Democrats Spent $20M on Healthcare Program for Just 173 Migrants"   What the hell? The Federal Government is going broke fast with record national debt and everyday Americans are struggling to pay their own healthcare bills. So what do the Democrats do? Spend tens of millions of dollars that we don't really have on non-citizens. This would cost over $100 million in the end but Trump is putting a stop to it! [Debt, Deficit, Economy, Health Care, Illegal Immigration, Politics]
Aug 15, 2026 ~ 'How illegals plunder American billions, in broad daylight' "And how Democrats enabled every dollar plundered."   "Around 30 million illegals (plus natural-born citizen children) milk the entire American economy, and every handout agency in Washington, for hundreds of billions annually. Much of it is remitted to their home countries, from Mexico to China to Somalia."   "Thanks to St. Barack, we also got about 220,000 Somalis, who think plundering “rival clans” (such as America) is honorable. So we get $18 billion in Somali fraud, just in one state. Never mind the billions in welfare fraud, in California and every other blue state." [Debt, Deficit, Economy, Illegal Immigration, Politics]
Sep 4, 2026 ~ 'Breitbart Business Digest: The Trump Manufacturing Boom Gets Even Stronger'   "Orders are rising, factories are turning out more capital equipment, job openings are soaring, and purchasing managers say the expansion continued in August. Four reports released over the past few weeks approach the factory sector from different directions. All of them found accelerating strength in durable goods, the core of U.S. manufacturing." See the report for all the details. [Economy, Trump Win]
Sep 12, 2026 ~ "How to Waste $9 Trillion to NOT 'Save the Planet'"   So far the world has flushed $9 Trillion down the toilet. It has not even had a measurable effect. But fear not. "According to the UN, Climate Policy Initiative 'estimates that an average of USD 7.8 trillion a year will be needed through 2030 ... to stay on track.'" Almost $8 Trillion a year to also have no effect.   Imagine what we could have used $9 Trillion and the future trillions for! The world better wake up before we're all totally bankrupt. [Climate Change, Debt, Deficit, Economics, Economy]
Sep 19, 2026 ~ "Boomity - EPA Eliminates 'Greenhouse Gas' Rule"   Another vitally important accomplishment of the Trump Administration. "The Environmental Protection Agency said Monday it is repealing rules that limit planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions from power plants fueled by coal and natural gas and announced it is taking a separate but related step to prevent future administrations from regulating climate pollution from power plants."   Revoking the Biden-era power plant rule would save industry more than $300 billion in costs and help “unleash” American energy, the EPA said. The change will allow utilities to “make the best decision for the ratepayers based on cost and cost savings, instead of being required to shut down facilities,’' said EPA Assistant Administrator Aaron Szabo. In an era where Americans are struggling with affordability and energy prices, Trump just saved us $300 billion! That will be very helpful going forward. [Economy, Energy, Trump Win]
Sep 26, 2026 ~ 'Hamburger was more expensive under Obama. So was gasoline'   Trump and Republicans are getting hit in the polls due to the affordability issue even though most of the inflation happened under Biden. For perspective, "In real (inflation-adjusted) terms, hamburger was $8.83/pound in February 2015 during Obama’s reign; it was only $8.57 in August 2026." "In real terms, eggs are now $2.127/dozen. They were $4.14/dozen (adjusted for inflation) in August 2015. Where was the howling and hand-wringing then?" "But if gasoline prices are the sole metric for those capable only of one-stage thinking, how is it that the electorate is being conditioned with histrionics about $4.36/gallon gasoline when it was $5.90 under Obama in May 2011 (inflation-adjusted), $5.82 under Biden in June 2022 (inflation-adjusted), and $6.30 under George W. Bush. [Economy, Politics]
Sep 27, 2026 ~ 'Trump Terminates Biden's EV Mandate, Promises Cheaper Cars for American Families'   A huge victory for consumers and the economy! Trump announces: “BIG DAY FOR AMERICAN AUTO WORKERS AND CAR BUYERS! I have just approved new Fuel Economy Standards that TERMINATE Sleepy Joe Biden and Pete Boot-EDGE-EDGE's ridiculous EV Mandate. The Dumocrats cost our Great Auto Manufacturers $Billions, forced Americans into cars they never wanted, and wasted Billions on Chargers that were never built. These new Standards will take the waste out of ⁠building cars in America. That means LOWER PRICES, saving families thousands on a new, beautiful, and safe car. Far better than the Environmental Monsters that we were building heretofore. Every Manufacturer, from General Motors to Ford to Stellantis, has called me wanting to build here, and now they can!” [Climate Change, Economy, Regulations, Trump Win]
Oct 6, 2026 ~ 'Republicans Facing the High Political Cost of Tariffs'   "While federal government intervention rarely works to bring down prices, it can certainly make things more expensive. And in raising tariffs, Trump took an action that, by design, made many goods more expensive for consumers."   "A major part of the case for tariffs was that for decades, our dependence on buying goods abroad has shrunk the industrial base at home, hollowing out towns and moving people away from stable factory jobs to the uncertainty of a gig economy. The thesis was that by raising the cost of foreign goods, the government could reverse this process, convincing businesses to manufacture more goods domestically. We have always been skeptical of these claims. But even if the protectionists were right on all points, the transformation of the economy they sought was bound to take more than one election cycle. Businesses make decisions such as where to manufacture products years in advance. Moving manufacturing from overseas back to the U.S. requires planning, building, and a massive investment. Businesses were never going to make decisions like this in reaction to a policy that not only could change with the next president but has also wildly vacillated during this presidency. Trump, often on social media, spent the early months of his presidency arbitrarily announcing he was raising or lowering tariffs, with his policies often fluctuating based on which foreign leader he was feuding with on a given day. He triggered an unnecessary rupture with Canada, which is rich in natural resources and has long been a key partner. He also imposed tariffs with shoddy legal reasoning that the Supreme Court rejected." [Economics, Economy, Politics, Tariffs, Trade]
Oct 9, 2026 ~ 'Time to Scrap the Jones Act for Good'   "This year, however, President Trump issued the broadest and longest Jones Act waiver in history to ease energy shortages from the war in Iran. As a result, a sprawling network of new trade has sprung up overnight. The waiver’s resounding success demonstrates the law’s failure. More than 200 ships have made hundreds of trips between U.S. ports, transporting millions of barrels of fuel and fertilizer to where they are needed most. In just a few months, more gasoline and jet fuel have been shipped from the Gulf Coast to the West Coast than in the prior six years, and Puerto Rico has been able to purchase American propane for the first time. All these trips have supplemented, not replaced, the Jones Act fleet’s usual routes." [Economics, Economy, Regulations, Trump Win]
Oct 18, 2026 ~ 'Why HUD’s Pushback Against DEI Mortgages Is Good for Black Wealth'   "Any program that lowers the economic bar to qualify for a mortgage does no favors for lower-income, minority buyers in the long run."   "It must be viewed as courageous for Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner to announce an investigation of Wells Fargo for alleged racial bias in mortgage lending — bias that favors minority buyers. The bank, after all, had said as much when it described its initiative in 2022 as one that 'will help close the homeownership gap between white and minority families created by decades of systemic inequities.' Turner, himself African-American, said the bank’s 'practice of dividing Americans based on race is immoral, unethical and un-American.' Moreover, 'Wells Fargo and all of its employees that engaged in race-based decision-making should be ashamed of themselves.'"   "Turner should expect to face criticism in seeming to oppose a private effort to boost the black household homeownership rate, which lags the white rate, 45 percent to 74 percent. But he is right to do so for a reason not immediately obvious: What amounts to race-based affirmative action in mortgage lending is not good in the long run for boosting black homeownership and wealth. The danger lies in the likelihood that, to fulfill its pledge to commit $60 billion toward 250,000 mortgages from 2017 to 2027, Wells Fargo has relaxed credit standards."   It should be noted that this kind of affirmative action was a big contributor to the great recession of 2008. Black people and other minorities were held to different lending standards known to increase foreclosure odds. And guess what happened? Large numbers of foreclosures, especially in those demographics. Bad for the country. Bad for the people the policies wanted to help. [Affirmative Action, CRT DIE Wokeness, Economics, Economy, Race, Trump Win]

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