We have been saying for a few weeks that the softness in the April numbers looked like a "blip" and that the economy appeared to rebound in May. The jobs numbers confirm that view, and we expect that will not be lost on Fed officials when they meet next week.
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As the Federal Reserve prepares for its June Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting, speculation is rife about its next move.
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Breitbart News economics editor John Carney said Tuesday on Fox Business Network's "Kudlow" that a few months of weakness was insufficient for the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates.
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May brought a surprising burst of vitality to the U.S. economy, with robust reports from the Institute for Supply Management (ISM) and S&P Global.
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Those looking at the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLT) and seeing it as a roadmap to a July rate cut have taken a wrong turn.
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Monday on FBN's "The Bottom Line," House Oversight Committee chairman Rep. James Comer (R-KY) reacted to former Biden chief medical advisor Anthony Fauci's testimony before a congressional subcommittee earlier in the day.
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Our view that the Fed would not cut rates this year has gone mainstream.
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The Fed meeting minutes released on May 22 mentioned "various officials" worrying that rates might not be as restrictive as thought.
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The National Rifle Association's big victory at the Supreme Court on Thursday puts a target on climate change regulations that have put fossil fuel companies under fire.
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It is becoming clearer with each passing day that there will be no interest rate cuts in the immediate futureβand maybe not even in the distant future.
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The Conference Board's monthly measure of consumer confidence is another piece of evidence suggesting that the economy accelerated in May.
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While Wall Street has finally come around to the view that interest rates are likely to stay higher for longer, it may still be underestimating just how high and how long.
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Thursday, during an appearance on FBN's "Mornings with Maria," Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) reacted to a Fox News report that suspects in a breach at Quantico in Virginia came across the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Wednesday, during an appearance on Fox Business Network's "The Evening Edit," Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) blasted the Biden administration for sending mixed messages about its allegiance to Israel.
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Thereβs a palpable tension in the air as Wall Street is confronted with the once unthinkable: interest rates may not be at their peak.
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If Donald Trumpβs social media venture is going to vindicate the faith of investors who have given it a six billion dollar market value, it must learn a critical lesson from the tech titans of the past: substantial early losses can be a harbinger of long-term success.
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Breitbart News economics editor John Carney said TuesdayΒ on Fox Business Network's "Kudlow" that it was incorrect for President Joe Biden to blame corporate greed for inflation.
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You can add the collapse of the U.S. consumer to the list of things that nearly everyone has been expecting but shows no signs of actually occurring.
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American progressives are in a state of high dudgeon, gnashing their teeth at the realization that the American people favor Donald Trump's economy over Joe Biden's.
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Jerome Powell might want to look away from the stock market. It's making a mockery of the idea that financial conditions are sufficiently restrictive.
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One month's worth of data does not make a trendβunless it fits the consensus narrative that the Fed is going to cut interest rates a few times this year.
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Jerome Powell still stubbornly resists the idea that the Fed's next move may be a hike rather than a cut.
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Tuesday on Fox Business Network's "Mornings with Maria," Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) lamented the Biden administration's handling of the U.S. economy.
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Mothers are back to work in droves in Biden's inflated economy after the government shuttered businesses and closed schools during the pandemic.
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Joe Biden is not a general, but he suffers from the generals' curse of always fighting the last war.
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There's really no mystery why so many people are unhappy with the Biden economy.
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The specter of inflation haunts the corridors of the West Wing, and the Biden administration's every attempt to exorcise the poltergeist of rising prices only deepens the grip of its possession.
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