It’s fairly well known that politicians regularly beat the market, making lucrative and sometimes strangely-timed stock trades that put a lot more in their pockets than their sub-$200,000 salaries. Now, anyone can trade like a member of Congress. Enter NANC and KRUZ, the tickers behind two exchange-traded funds that mimic moves made by Democrats and…

The January jobs report stunned Friday morning, showing the U.S. economy adding more than half a million jobs when economists expected fewer than 200,000. It was the strongest monthly job growth since July and snapped a 5-month slowdown. Meanwhile, the unemployment rate dropped to 3.4%, its lowest rate since May 1969 and down from December’s…

The unemployment rate in January just dropped to its lowest level since 1969. Meanwhile, U.S. job growth for the first month of the year surged, more than doubling expectations. The latest numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) stunned economists who expected to see a continued slowdown in growth. But the economy bucked that…

40 million people are under winter weather alerts; Congressman George Santos steps down from his committees; and the people have spoke, the government is this country’s No. 1 problem. This is Straight Arrow News. Unbiased. Straight Facts. Winter weather grounds planes, kills one More than 40 million people are under winter weather alerts as an ice…

The federal COVID emergency will officially come to an end this spring; winter weather is again grounding flights nationwide; first responders involved in the Tyre Nichols case have been fired; and an appeals court rules that Johnson and Johnson cannot use a subsidiary to protect itself from lawsuits. These stories and more highlight the daily…

The labor market may have been much weaker than the government let on in 2022. While the Bureau of Labor Statistics initially reported the U.S. economy added 1.2 million jobs last spring, a new report shows the private sector had a net loss of 287,000 jobs during the same time period, a difference of nearly…

The U.S. hit its debt ceiling last week and began enacting “extraordinary measures” to avoid a default that could be disastrous for the U.S. economy. At a Jan. 25 Senate Republican press conference, Sens. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, Ron Johnson, R-Wis., Rand Paul, R-Ky., and others spoke to reporters with a message for President Biden. Straight…

While the number of Orthodox Christians has doubled in the last century, the number of non-Orthodox Christians has quadrupled since 1910 to 260 million, according to the Pew Research Center. The demographics in countries with large numbers of Orthodox Christians (Russia and Eastern Europe, including Greece and the Balkans) are getting older as young people…

The U.S. economy grew 2.1% in 2022, despite widespread fears the country was heading toward a recession. That’s according to the latest gross domestic product data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis out Thursday. In the fourth quarter of 2022, the advanced estimate shows a growth of 2.9%, slightly above analysts’ expectations for the quarter.…

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is planning to visit Taiwan later this year as concerns grow regarding the tension between Taiwan and China. Last year, President Biden committed to defending Taiwan if China were to invade the island. The Center for Strategic and International Studies ran the scenarios in a wargame to see what could happen.…