Economy

Dem Wishcasting On CNN: Trump Base Will 'Turn Quickly' Against Him
On CNN This Morning, DC lobbyist Jonathan Kott, a former aide to Senators Coons and Manchin, predicts that Trump supporters will give him six to eight months, but then "turn quickly" on him when the improvements in their lives he promised don't materialize. Kott's powers of prognostication have a questionable track record. Less than two months before the 2024 election, Kott was on Fox News…

Trashing Trump Tariffs CNN Cites Canada As Military Ally—Like Soviets?
Trashing Trump's imposition of a 25% tariff on imports from Canada, CNN cites Canada's role as a US military ally and plays a clip of Canadian PM Trudeau doing the same. By far the most important military ally of the US since the Revolution was the Soviet Union in WWII. By that logic, does CNN condemn the Cold War against the Soviet Union and the imposition of economic sanctions on Russia?

Michael Steele Mocks Trump For Alleged High-Pitched 'Mike Tyson' Voice
On Sunday's edition of MSNBC's The Weekend, co-host Michael Steele mocks Donald Trump for supposedly using a high-pitched "little Mike Tyson voice" in speaking with Gavin Newsom.

Oh Shut Up, You Ken Doll: Actor Upset Trump Won't Make His Taxes Go Up
A Canadian actor who lives in the U.S. is crying about how upset he is that he will be paying less taxes under President Donald Trump. The stupid is strong with this one. Canadian actor Simu Liu — known for portraying Shang-Chi in Marvel’s superhero flick Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021) — posted one of the most beta male things on the internet January 22.

IDIOCY: NYT Buries Data on Federal Waste in Screed Against Trump
Defending the destructive spending plaguing the federal government appears to be what The New York Times does best, which explains its nervous breakdown over President Donald Trump taking scissors to Washington D.C.’s credit cards.

HUH? WashPost Tries Blaming Trump for GDP Growth Slowing in Q4 of 2024
Wow, that was quick. The Washington Post has already taken to blaming President Donald Trump for America’s economic woes, except the new data they’re using as the basis of their argument reflected the disastrous Biden economy, not Trump’s.

One Year, Big Results! How Milei Freed Markets, and Reduced Inflation
Finally, a real libertarian is president. That’s in Argentina, where last year, Javier Milei surprised pundits by winning the election by a landslide. Now that he’s had a chance to govern, my new video covers the results and explains why Milei is now even more popular. Argentina was once one of the richest countries in the world. Then, years of big government brought high inflation and poverty…

Here Were the Dumbest Moments from Jim Acosta’s Last Show at CNN
Tuesday was the end of an era with Jim Acosta’s 18 years at CNN coming to an end with the showboater choosing to avoid a demotion to weekdays at midnight Eastern and jumping ship with a cartoonish commentary about not “bow[ing] down to a dictator” and not “giv[ing] into the lies.” In the roughly minutes before that, Acosta was unapologetically partisan and went full Homer Simpson dropping a…

New Sheriff in Town: Karoline Leavitt Opens New Era of WH Briefings
In the first the first White House press briefing of President Donald Trump’s second term, Press Secretary Karoline Levaitt made clear from the onset of the 46-minute-and-36-second briefing things would be different inside the Brady Briefing Room. Along with the opening and closing statements made famous by Kayleigh McEnany, Leavitt announced seats for new media and called on 21 different…

GO AWAY: Krugman Struggling Post-NYT, Cries ‘Trump Wants You to Die’
Former New York Times columnist and pseudo-economics savant Paul Krugman clearly isn’t taking retirement too well, as he’s taken to going on rants against his former employer and President Donald Trump, who lives rent-free in his brain.

MAGA and King’s Dream
I have written often that there is a common denominator in our deeply divided nation. That is the general sense that something is wrong. The points of departure among our large and diverse population are the perceptions about what the problems are and what must be done. In this spirit I ask, as many have over recent days, what message we might take from the coincidence of the inauguration day…

In First Interview AS VP, JD Vance DISMANTLES CBS’s Margaret Brennan
When CBS announced that it landed the first post-inaugural interview with Vice President JD Vance, with Margaret Brennan on Face the Nation, many conservatives questioned why Vance would even give the time of day to hateful “legacy” media. Within minutes, we had our answer.

Evening Nets Ignore Mortgage Rates Topping 7% Under Biden AGAIN!
The ABC, CBS and NBC evening news networks completely ignored new damning data that bookended Bidenomics as arguably the dumbest set of economic policies the U.S. experienced in its history

NYT BRAIN ROT: Labeling Drug Cartels ‘Terrorists’ Could ‘Hurt’ Economy
No, the headline does not deceive you. The New York Times got its pants in a bunch over President Donald Trump daring to refer to violent Mexican drug cartels as “terrorists” because it could supposedly harm the economy.