Category: Economy

It’s STILL the economy, stupid.

Posted on September 15, 2026 by Brant Clifton

We decided it was time to take a break from *Sex Offender poker* and do a deep dive into the important issues in the US Senate race. Real Clear Politics

More proof that electeds are NOT interested in shrinking government, cutting spending AT ALL

Posted on July 4, 2026 by Brant Clifton

It’s campaign time. Folks are throwing around the word *conservative* like candy at a parade. But we’re actually seeing very little conservatism from GOP-controlled legislative branches in Raleigh and DC.

A free-market approach to achieving affordability

Posted on July 1, 2026July 1, 2026 by Brant Clifton

Everyone knows prices are too high. Gas. Food. Basically everything. The consulting class has warned all their political clientele to focus on affordability. Make stuff cost less. Unfortunately, the

Two FirstHealth hospitals among 11 in NC warned by Trump admin about pricing transparency

Posted on June 14, 2026June 14, 2026 by Brant Clifton

President Trump and his team are going hard at the issue of affordability — particularly affordability of healthcare services – amid serious economic concerns and right here in front of

Spending on national debt INTEREST = total spending on defense and education COMBINED

Posted on April 19, 2026April 19, 2026 by Brant Clifton

Has the national debt ever been paid off? Why, yes it has. The last time: January 1, 1835. The president who did it: Andrew Jackson. How President Jackson did it:

Is ANYONE serious about getting our financial house in order? (Anyone, at all?)

Posted on September 24, 2025September 24, 2025 by Brant Clifton

It’s pretty safe to say that conservative ideas are what propelled the GOP to a position of power in North Carolina and the United States. Most of the GOP’s greatest

While DC balks at cutting spending, the numbers just keep getting worse

Posted on July 19, 2025 by Brant Clifton

Yes, I know we have a GOP majority in DC. But it is exasperating to keep having to call JD Vance in to break ties on votes to cut ANY

Thommy Boy’s Themper Thantrum and the Medicaid Scam

Posted on July 2, 2025July 2, 2025 by Brant Clifton

Our senior US senator is all over the national news boo-hooing about the sick state of politics, how he’s tired of it all, and how he wants to spend more

A wee bit of truth to water down the tariff hysteria

Posted on April 14, 2025April 14, 2025 by Brant Clifton

Never mind the damage that Biden and Obama and the Bushes did to our national economy. What Trump is doing with these tariffs is — we’re told by our marxist

Debt has ALWAYS been the ruin of great powers. Is the U.S. next?

Posted on March 15, 2025 by Brant Clifton

THAT is the question posed by preeminent historian Niall Ferguson in a recent thought-provoking Wall Street Journal column: […] What I call Ferguson’s Law states that any great power that