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The Vermont Futures Project, a project of the Vermont Chamber of Commerce, made a big splash last week by declaring our state ranks last for economic momentum. Smack! In a January 7th op-ed, they write: The Vermont Futures Project’s Competitiveness Dashboard shows Vermont trailing most states in economic outlook, cost competitiveness, and regulatory efficiency. Vermont … Read more
You can pay more if you want to. We’ve got stores hereabouts that’ll take 4-5 dollars a dozen for eggs, but they always did that. The Biden printing press inflation/spending machine drove the cost of everything up. Who was it that lost their mind when they found out a pound of butter was over seven … Read more
And Why is Everyone Talking About It? You may have been seeing the silver market discussed in the news lately. Big things have happened in the market that will affect all of our futures. Many people are missing the importance. Here is What Happened There was a major disruption amongst the biggest players in the … Read more
The holiday shopping season suggests that people have a good feeling about the direction of the US economy, and the Q3 data confirms it. Even before the Christmas shopping season, the economy grew at an impressive 4.3%. Gross domestic product is a broad measure of the goods and services produced across the economy. Economists had … Read more
I say it often, and you can quote me. It’s easy to break things. Fixing them is a lot harder. It takes longer. And while Obama broke stuff, whoever was running the Biden Administration wrecked a lot more. Add to that an unprecedented effort to realign the American economy, fix unfair trade deals, break the … Read more
New Hampshire ranks as the freest state in North America, as measured in this year’s Economic Freedom of North America report, released today by the Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy in conjunction with Canada’s Fraser Institute. For the 24th time, New Hampshire is the freest state among all U.S. states, having scored 8.34 out of 10 … Read more
The first Rule of Democrat narratives ought to be that whatever the ‘experts’ say about Trump, the opposite is likely True. The Second rule is that whatever Dems say in the first rule is a projection. Whatever misery they prognosticate is one of theirs and the result of careful planning. Once back in power, they … Read more
This week on GrokTALK!, the US is poised to experience an economic revolution unlike anything in our history. Better than Trump 1.0. So, quit your bitching and start selling it, before we give it all away to the Dems and they blow it all up just as it’s taking off. Speakers’ opinions are their own … Read more
The Democrats’ affordability narrative is a lie, and Republicans need to push back hard The political Left in America, desperate for a lifeline, anything that isn’t just more TDS rage, has pinned its hopes on affordability. That word is making the rounds, and after winning a few elections where Democrats typically win, that’s their new … Read more
If you wanted two more opposite sides of the industrial/engineering coin, you’d be hard-pressed to find a better match than Germany and the United States. We’re knocking down barriers, dumping red tape, and creating a long list of incentives for industry to do business from America’s shores. Employ us, we’ll make you proud. Germany, in … Read more
Inflation is low and steady at 1.9%. Wages went up again in June (1.3%). Energy and food prices are down. Private sector employment is up. If you have a 401K, annuity, or other market-based investment, it is likely doing well, which is good news for retirees and union pension funds, and states and municipalities with … Read more
According to the White House (Associated News Service) Sunday marked six months into President Donald Trump’s second term, which the White House says has been characterized by “winning.” “In just six months, President Trump has made America the hottest country in the world,” assistant press secretary Liz Huston told The Daily Signal. “President Trump is delivering on his promises … Read more
Last week, Mr. Trump announced the US had ended all trade talks with Canada after the Great White North declared that it was moving forward with its digital services tax (DST). Canada, like every socialist nation on earth, needs revenue. The government meddles and crushes, and this planned decline would result in the government having … Read more
There are few more enthusiastic boosters for all the great things about New Hampshire than me. I share the data, polls, research, results, and whatever the mighty beast of the internet coughs up. I moved here from someplace else 35 years ago and have been a superfan ever since. As a superfan, I have also … Read more
President Trump has proposed using the revenue from his increased tariffs to lower or even eliminate income taxes — with a priority on removing Americans making less than 200,000 dollars a year from the tax rolls. Exempting more Americans from income taxes — and lowering taxes on other Americans— is certainly a worthwhile endeavor. However, … Read more
I recently reported on news that China was quickly swirling down the economic drain as Trump’s big, beautiful tariffs did the work they were meant to do. War by other means, as already, “high unemployment and rising costs force [China] to address the threat of millions of Chinese milling about in misery with nothing to … Read more
Several things have become evident a few weeks into Donald Trump’s big beautiful tariff strategy. The most beautiful tariffs – like nobody’s ever seen. The world needs the United States as a trading partner more than we need them. If pressure is applied, America can get concessions on a long list of issues to our … Read more
Foundations of the welfare state can be found in Bismark’s idea of the social state, which, at first, was used to fight socialists on a political level, but hell is full of good intentions. Bismark in the 1880s created compulsory insurance for accident, health, disability, and age (pensions). He called them “state socialism” and explained that all … Read more
Fresh off her 2018 upset New York Democratic congressional primary win, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (better known as AOC) and Massachusetts Sen. Edward Markey announced they were launching an ambitious legislative plan called the Green New Deal. While people who had a grounding in economic thought found this new initiative to be naïve at best and destructive at worst, … Read more
A Colorado think tank has released a report on homelessness after four years of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, and nine of the top ten states with the worst homelessness increases are Democrat-run States. The outlier is North Dakota, which might be due for a rebound in the right direction now that Mr. Trump has … Read more