Political Calculus Changing Around Taxpayer-Funded Lobbying Ban?
Will Texas ban the practice of taxpayer-funded lobbying in the next legislative session? Taxpayer-funded lobbying, simply put, is the practice of local political subdivisions (school districts, cities, counties, etc.) hiring lobbyists in Austin to lobby lawmakers to...
Continued Uncertainty on the Economic Horizon
It has now been more than three years since governments across the country forced us into an artificial recession in response to COVID-19, interrupting some of the greatest economic growth and prosperity under President Trump that America had seen in recent...
Systemic Struggles: Recent Bank Failures and Their Implications
With all the recent talk of extraterrestrial aliens and Ukraine, you might have missed the recent news story of yet another bank failure in the United States this year. July saw another bank failure in the United States, the Heartland Tri-State Bank in Kansas,...
EXPLAINER: Federal Interest Rates
What They Are and How They Affect You Last week, the U.S. Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) increased the Federal Funds Interest Rates to 5.25-5.50%, for a 22-year high. This follows almost a year and a half of consistent rate increases since the...
Bidenomics: Exposing the Marxist Road to American Communism
The year is 2035. Kamala Harris is in her second term as president of the United States, after serving as vice president under Joe Biden for eight years. The “Inflation Reduction Act 5.0" and the third iteration of the Green New Deal has just passed Congress and was...