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‘Bidenomics’ Jobs Report: Not All It’s Cracked Up To Be

Will FolksApril 5, 2024May 29, 2024

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Guest Column: ‘Bidenomics’ Is A Nightmare For Consumer Costs

FITSForumApril 5, 2024May 29, 2024

by FITSForumApril 5, 2024May 29, 2024

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Spring Surge: Gas Prices On The Move

FITSNewsMarch 28, 2024May 29, 2024

by FITSNewsMarch 28, 2024May 29, 2024

Consumer Comfort Slides Over Economic Worries

FITSNewsMarch 31, 2016March 31, 2016

by FITSNewsMarch 31, 2016March 31, 2016

AMERICANS STARTING TO FRET THE FUTURE … Consumer comfort in America broke out of a thirteen-week holding pattern this week … just not in a...

Boeing’s Bad Day

FITSNewsMarch 30, 2016March 30, 2016

by FITSNewsMarch 30, 2016March 30, 2016

JOB LOSSES, MORE PLANE PROBLEMS … Remember when Boeing threatened to cut jobs if the federal government didn’t keep doling out taxpayer-subsidized goodies from the...

Q1 Growth Estimate Implodes

FITSNewsMarch 28, 2016

by FITSNewsMarch 28, 2016

BAD NEWS GETS WORSE FOR U.S. ECONOMY … Last week the news about the U.S. economy was bad … this week it got downright terrible....

GDP Growth Estimate Downgraded

FITSNewsMarch 25, 2016March 28, 2016

by FITSNewsMarch 25, 2016March 28, 2016

FIRST QUARTER ECONOMIC “EXPANSION” PEGGED AT 1.4 PERCENT … While America obsessed over an unraveling sex scandal involving U.S. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, there...

Consumer Comfort Holding …

FITSNewsMarch 24, 2016

by FITSNewsMarch 24, 2016

… BUT ECONOMIC OUTLOOKS WORSENING U.S. consumers are sending mixed signals about the health of the economy, according to the latest installment of Bloomberg’s Consumer...

Small Biz: Uncertainty Rules

FITSNewsMarch 8, 2016

by FITSNewsMarch 8, 2016

NFIB INDEX “TREADING WATER” Small businesses are less than enthused about their economic futures right now – more so than at any other point over...

“The Maestro” Is Worried About The Economy

FITSNewsMarch 2, 2016

by FITSNewsMarch 2, 2016

ALAN GREENSPAN: “WE’RE IN TROUBLE” Former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan – who in late 2014 admitted that the federal government’s money-printing bonanza didn’t work...

Restaurant Recession Is Already “On”

FITSNewsFebruary 21, 2016August 24, 2017

by FITSNewsFebruary 21, 2016August 24, 2017

Is America already in another recession? Maybe … The fact we’re even asking that question probably isn’t a good sign, is it? Nope … Anyway,...

Ralph Benko: South Carolina’s “Golden” Legacy

LettersFebruary 17, 2016February 17, 2016

by LettersFebruary 17, 2016February 17, 2016

HOW WILL IT BE SHAPED BY UPCOMING PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY? || By RALPH BENKO || The Federal Reserve, and its management of its one-and-only product, Federal...

Consumer Comfort Holding …

FITSNewsFebruary 11, 2016

by FITSNewsFebruary 11, 2016

… BUT CONCERNS ABOUT NATIONAL ECONOMY ARE ON THE RISE Rampant uncertainty about the health of the American economy has yet to manifest itself in...

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‘Bidenomics’ Jobs Report: Not All It’s Cracked Up To Be

Guest Column: ‘Bidenomics’ Is A Nightmare For Consumer Costs

Spring Surge: Gas Prices On The Move

Consumer Comfort Slides Over Economic Worries

Boeing’s Bad Day

Q1 Growth Estimate Implodes

GDP Growth Estimate Downgraded

Consumer Comfort Holding …

Small Biz: Uncertainty Rules

“The Maestro” Is Worried About The Economy

Restaurant Recession Is Already “On”

Ralph Benko: South Carolina’s “Golden” Legacy

Consumer Comfort Holding …

Woman is elected president of the world

Man eats a hamburger from 1937

North Charleston Councilman Accuses Cop Of Falsifying Police Report

‘You Got a Vendetta’: Bowen Turner Arrest Video Released

Murder Rap: South Carolina Police Officer Charged In Chick-fil-A Shooting

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