In an article I wrote last week following Trump’s campaign rally disguised as a State of the Union Address, I documented how his claim that his trade war and tax cuts had produced “the hottest economy in the world” were…
I watched Trump’s State of the Union speech last night and besides losing 90 minutes of my life that I’ll never get back, I discovered that I could have simply replayed the 2018 edition because Trump used his time on…
Yesterday Trump took some time off from his long list of manufactured crises to address attendees at the 100th Annual American Farm Bureau Federation Convention in New Orleans; he used the opportunity to attempt to save face with farmers who…
America is about to “celebrate” the one-year anniversary of the start of Trump’s trade war. On January 22, 2018, the man with more business failures than successes — including four bankruptcies — began his assault on the U.S. economy by…
Wall Street had another very bad day yesterday. How bad? Well, the S&P 500 fell to its lowest level of the year, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost over 500 points, bringing its two-day losses to more than 1,000…
If you’re a regular reader and/or listener of The Strident Conservative, you know that I occasionally refer to George Orwell and his novel 1984 to describe much of what is happening in America today. In fact, I recently shared a…
Members of Congress returned to work yesterday — work being a relative word — and were immediately broadsided by some bad economic news. General Motors announced that it will cut approximately 14,000 workers and close 5 plants (3 in North…
