He removes an inconsequential tariff, but doesn’t pardon Edward Snowden? What the heck? In one of his final acts in the White House, former President Donald Trump removed the ten percent tariff on the United Arab Emirates’ aluminum exports. The White House announced the policy change just a couple of hours before President Joe Biden […]
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Joe Biden fires the first shot in his War on Energy
By: Andrew Moran By the time 159 million Americans cast their ballots in the 2020 presidential election, it was clear where President-Elect Joe Biden stood when it came to the nation’s oil and gas industry. From banning fracking to imposing new regulations in the name of environmental justice, America’s historic achievement of energy independence could come under threat […]
Janet Yellen to lawmakers: Spend big now, focus on debt later
Incoming Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen had this message for lawmakers: spend big now and pay down the debt later. During her Senate Confirmation Hearing, Yellen backed President-Elect Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus and relief package to help the U.S. economy recover. The former head of the Federal Reserve believes this amount of spending “creates more […]
Energy independence — Trump’s finest MAGA moment?
By: Andrew Moran You would not have known it if you watched CNN or read The New York Times, but President Donald Trump achieved quite a lot in his time at the White House. Whether it was foreign policy or the judicial branch, Trump advanced the conservative movement to heights unseen since former President Ronald Reagan. But perhaps his […]
REPORT: Joe Biden’s stimulus package to total $1.9 trillion
Where is all this money coming from? That is the question you will be asking after President-Elect Joe Biden unveils his spending package proposal to “to combat the coronavirus pandemic and its effects on the economy, with an initial focus on large-scale expansions of the nation’s vaccination program and virus testing capacity.” According to The […]