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Inflation Continue Softening As Unemployment Creeped Up In September, BLS Data Shows
By Robert Romano The Bureau of Labor Statistics finally got around to publishing the September unemployment report following the government shutdown, with the unemployment level once again increasing by 219,000 to 7.6…
The Southern Conservative Who Warned Against Authoritarian Temptation
The modern American right could stand to gain from the insight of Richard M. Weaver. Weaver, a twentieth-century conservative of the Southern tradition, perceived the dangers of radical ideologies as well as the extent to…
To Make Luxury Affordable, Embrace Consumer Choice
What kind of goods and experiences comprise a “normal life”? In 1900, Henry George thought millionaires lived abnormally because they had telephones in their bedrooms. Looking back, it’s remarkable how quickly the abnormal…
Swing Voters Sour On Both Republicans And Democrats, Threatening Both Parties With Third Parties And Primaries
By Manzanita Miller Ten months into his second term, President Donald Trump’s approval rating sits at just 43 percent in the latest Real Clear Polling average, nearly as low as Joe Biden’s was in November 2021. At the same…
Meet the Texas Stock Exchange: Wall St Finally Gets Competition
For more than a century, America’s stock listings have been dominated by two addresses: Wall Street’s New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq’s MarketSite in Times Square. That may soon change. On September 30, 2025, the US…
Why Blaming Walmart and Amazon for Public Assistance Is Misguided
With SNAP funding in the news, we’re seeing a revival of a familiar complaint against big business. The reason millions of Americans need public benefits like SNAP, critics say, is that their employers don’t pay them enough.…
It’s Build Now, Or Bust Later To Get Prices Down, Mr. President.
By Robert Romano President Donald Trump on Nov. 14 put forth a promised executive order to reduce tariffs on certain foods from overseas that the U.S. does not produce or just does not produce enough of as the White House and…
Data Centers Aren’t the Only Reason Electricity Prices Are Surging
America is on the cusp of the most power-hungry decade in a generation. Federal forecasters expect record electricity demand in 2025–26, even as oil producers are carefully managing output. Yet the main reason your bill is…
Are the Benefits of AI Worth the Risk of ‘White-Collar Bloodbath’?
In recent decades, and especially since the release of OpenAI’s large language model ChatGPT in 2022, artificial intelligence use has rapidly spread into almost every industry. And as AI proliferates, so do fears that a wave…
Want Lower Prices? More ‘Affordability’? Move to a Red State.
The buzzword of the month is "affordability," and based on the election results from New York, New Jersey and Virginia, voters think that's declining. Democrats think they've found a winning issue here to…
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