Conservatives Are Scared to Death of Robert Mueller
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Conservative calls to fire special prosecutor Robert Mueller are really getting crazy. The Fox News gang has gone gaga over the idea that Mueller is actually a liberal mole who’s hellbent on getting rid of Donald Trump. Republicans in Congress are going down the same…
6 Times Donald Trump Promised Not to Cut Medicare
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Earlier this week, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) made headlines when he suggested that after enacting a massive tax cut, Republicans would attempt to reign in deficits next year by cutting spending on entitlement programs, such as Medicare and Medicaid. “We’re going to have to…
GOP Congressman: “Diversity Is Not Our Strength”
Steve King speaks at a rally for Donald Trump and Mike Pence in November 2016.Mark Reinstein/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A Republican congressman drew widespread condemnation across social media on Friday for a tweet that appeared to denounce diversity and inclusion. Citing comments Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban made…
EXCLUSIVE: Breitbart Admits Trump Is a Serial Sexual Abuser!
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I was just over at Breitbart looking for something I didn’t find, but I did find this: I wonder if they really thought through this headline before they put it up?
Chart of the Day: Net New Jobs in November
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The American economy gained 228,000 jobs last month. We need 90,000 new jobs just to keep up with population growth, which means that net job growth clocked in at 138,000 jobs. That’s not bad. The headline unemployment rate stayed steady at 4.1 percent. However, the…
Labor Productivity Is Just Terrible These Days
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Jobs figures for November will be released in a couple of hours, and the consensus forecast is that they’ll be fine. While you wait, however, here’s another chart to look at: Productivity growth has dropped like a stone since 2005, and is currently hovering around…