by Andrew Moran | Apr 28, 2022 | Articles, Economic Affairs News, Good Reads
Is a recession on the horizon two years after suffering a sharp but brief economic decline? The United States economy is one quarter away from slipping into a downturn. In the first quarter, the gross domestic product (GDP) contracted 1.4%, worse than the median...
by Andrew Moran | Jan 31, 2022 | Articles, Economic Affairs News, Opinion
President Joe Biden is a miracle worker. Despite the Omicron variant and the Federal Reserve scaling back its pandemic-era quantitative easing (QE) program, the U.S. economy achieved impressive growth in the fourth-quarter gross domestic product (GDP). The nexus of...
by Andrew Moran | Oct 31, 2021 | Articles, Economic Affairs News, Good Reads, Opinion
Do you know what the most frightening thing in the world is? It is stagflation. The sunny days that were forecast for President Joe Biden’s morning in America quickly transitioned into darkness. The post-pandemic economy is metastasizing into a boneyard filled with...
by Andrew Moran | Jan 17, 2021 | Columns, Trade
Pandemic? What pandemic? Trade war? What trade war? Despite being ground zero for the coronavirus pandemic, the Chinese economy is laughing in dollars, euros, and yuan by how much it exported to the world during a turbulent 2020. Some of its biggest exports were face...
by Leesa K. Donner | Oct 29, 2020 | Articles, Economic Affairs News, Establishment Media, Politics
The left-leaning chattering class is in a state over the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) numbers released today, wondering how best to put a negative spin on some positive numbers. The pro-Joe Biden contingent of the media is working overtime to tamp down the optimistic...