Topic: White House

Sunday, Beijing announced it was widening the daily trading range for the yuan to one percentage point. This news has been heralded as another indication that China is liberalizing its currency, and the yuan may now be fairly valued. This may be dead wrong.    Read More

The $620 billion annual trade gap is the most significant barrier to more robust growth and jobs creation, and oil and subsidized imports from China are the culprits.   Read More

Today, George Mason University expert and Obama approved GOP 2010 trustee for Medicare and Social Security Charles Blahous is today releasing a study that challenges the conventional wisdom that the health-care law, which calls for an expensive expansion of coverage for the uninsured beginning in 2014, will nonetheless reduce deficits by raising taxes and cutting payments to Medicare providers.   Read More

Barack Obama and his Republican challengers don’t agree about much, but they do agree the U.S. economy can’t be turned around, and middle class prosperity saved, without a strong contribution from manufacturing.    Read More

Friday, forecasters expect the Labor Department to report the economy added 201,000 jobs in March, down from 227,000 in February but in line with the moderate pace of economic recovery.    Read More

When President Obama was inaugurated, gas was selling for $1.90 a gallon, and it is now nearly $4.00. Mr. Obama says he needs four more years to change America—if reelected can we look forward to $8.00 a gallon?    Read More

There are a lot of really good things in Paul Ryan’s new budget, which is a stark contrast to the Obama budget. Ryan cuts spending by over $5 trillion, lowers the deficit by over $3 trillion, and brings the debt-to-GDP ratio down to 62 percent. All of these are ten-year totals.    Read More

When we keep more of our own money, our unfettered ambitions will create renewed abundance.   Read More

Gas prices are zooming passed $4 a gallon, and the nation is hardly freer from the grip of imported oil or closer to robust economic recovery. With his approval ratings dropping precipitously, President Obama is blaming speculators and investigating fraud and at the pump, when this mess is the direct result of failed federal energy policies.    Read More

Friday, forecasters expect the Labor Department to report the economy added 204,000 jobs in February, down from 243,000 in January. My estimate is 180,000.    Read More