Economy

Leave it to one of the clowns at MSNBC’s Morning Joe to compare President Donald Trump to the murderous Communist Chinese government because of his beef with the Federal Reserve.

Inflation in July, as measured by the Federal Reserve’s favored gauge, inched lower on a monthly basis, fueling hopes of an interest rate cut when the central bank meets in September.

U.S. Real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth was even stronger than initially reported, the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) announced Thursday.

In an interesting editorial choice, CNN NewsNight host Abby Phillip elected to keep credibly-accused human trafficker, wifebeater and MS-13 gangbanger Kilmar Abrego García off the table and away from any meaningful panel discussion. Phillip instead elected to do a brief blurb on Abrego García to close the show.

MSNBC’s James Woods-dubbed “media gnat” Ali Velshi continues to illustrate why socialist media talking heads know as much about sound economics as flat-earthers know about astrophysics.

At this point in his second term, President Donald Trump has higher approval ratings than Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama in their second terms. According to the Real Clear Politics average of presidential approval polls, Trump, on Aug. 13, 2025, had a rating of 45.8%. G.W. Bush on Aug. 13, 2005, registered a 43.2% rating. Obama, on Aug. 13, 2013, stood at 43.8%.

The economy can be both very complex and very simple. In simplified terms, consider two buckets. One is the public sector, and one is the private sector. As more money flows into the bucket of the public sector and fills it up, the private sector bucket does not fill up. However, the private sector utilizes money more efficiently and contributes to economic growth for its citizens. As the…

A segment on Target’s financial woes on CNN NewsNight with Abby Phillip, colloquially known as the Thunderdome, laser-focused on the retailer’s recent financial woes. A liberal panelist took an opportunity to try to make hay at the expense of Scott Jennings, and it did not end well.

Lame duck comedian Stephen Colbert went on a tirade against President Donald Trump’s tariffs and heralded the supposedly impending doom of skyrocketing prices, and ended up beclowning himself in the process.

A CNN This Morning segment hypes fears of the effect of Trump tariffs on back to school supplies. Host Audie Cornish suggests that people will be using buy now, pay later plans to pay for "pencils and crayons." Julie Margetta Morgan, president of the self-described "progressive" think tank, the Century Foundation, says that people should "be really worried" about that.

Economic dunce-in-chief Paul Krugman knows as much about intellectual consistency as he does about the meaning of “transitory” inflation. His proverbial brain aneurysm to that effect was put on full display during the August 5 edition of PBS’s Amanpour & Company…