Employers in the United States added 114,000 workers to their payrolls in July, the Department of Labor said Friday, and the unemployment rate jumped to 4.3 percent. Economists had been expecting 180,000 jobs and an unemployment rate of 4.1 percent. The disappointing payroll growth and the sudden jump in unemployment suggest that the economy may…
U.S. trade gap in goods rises 5.7% in September to $92.2 billion The numbers: The trade deficit in goods widened 5.7% in September to $92.2 billion as a strong dollar crimped exports. Yet a sharp decline in the trade gap since the spring is likely to help the U.S. economy post the first increase in quarterly…
Greetings from Tyler, Today is the day the mainstream has been dreading. In actual fact, the abortion issue has been handed back to the states. The 1973 ruling was invalidated as a matter of law. The idea that the U. S. Constitution handed some sacred “right” to women was a fantastic reach in the first…
Greetings from Tyler, Justice is fallen in the streets. I guess you heard about the acquittal in what looked like a slam-dunk case. It has political overtones, but it threatened to answer most of the questions that were obvious to those watching. If it had gone the other way, it would have been fun to…
Greetings from Tyler, You can’t escape the news of the school shooting in Uvalde, TX. But the story has taken several surprising twists. Apparently there are protocols for this kind of thing. Police don’t just storm in and take control of the situation. Despite the fact that the shooter was inside the school, killing children,…
Greetings from Tyler, There has to be an explanation for the attack on the very core of what made America a great country. A possible answer is, they’re just trying to tick us off. The speeches, the decisions, the whimsical creation of a truth governance. The appointment of a truly comical figure, one who has…
On Feb. 1, the U.S. Treasury Department reported that the U.S. gross national debt surpassed $30 trillion for the first time, a figure that’s incomprehensible at the best of times, let alone when many Americans are still dealing with the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic. But as unfathomable as this number is, the national…
The president should announce today he is increasing domestic energy production By the time this is published the average gas price in Texas will have likely set a new record high. At the time of writing, it was just seven cents off the old record and had risen 60 cents from the previous week. President…
With 150,000 Russian troops circling Ukraine’s borders and U.S. officials warning that a major invasion could take place any day, President Biden has signaled to the American public that it, too, may feel effects if Russia chooses to invade. “If Russia decides to invade, that would also have consequences here at home. But the American…
Red-hot inflation is eroding American’s wage gains and hurting Democrats in an election year Inflation surged more than expected in January, notching another four-decade high as strong consumer demand and pandemic-related supply-chain snarls fueled rapid price gains that wiped out the benefits of rising wages for most Americans. The consumer price index rose 7.5% in…