by WorldTribune Staff, August 3, 2025 Real World News [The phrase “lies damned lies and statistics” was popularized in the United States by Mark Twain (among others), who attributed it to the British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli.] President Donald Trump has fired the Biden-appointed commissioner of Labor Statistics who he said had “rigged” the job […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Stephen Moore, July 23, 2025 Over the last several decades, you could count on your fingers (and maybe a few toes) the number of government programs that have been canceled — no matter how obsolete, inefficient or wasteful they were, and despite the fact that, in some rare cases, their missions […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 14, 2025 Real World News As proceeds from President Donald Trump’s tariff policies came pouring in, the U.S. government posted a surplus in June, the Treasury Department said on Friday. Last month saw a surplus of just over $27 billion. That followed a $316 billion deficit in May. The government last […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Stephen Moore, July 9, 2025 Everyone knows that the “Big, Beautiful” tax bill signed into law on the Fourth of July lowers tax burdens for families and businesses. It also averts a $4 trillion tax increase starting next year. That’s enough reason to heartily celebrate. But what isn’t well known is […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 7, 2025 Real World News Though major media have done all they can to push President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” out of the spotlight, the White House highlights what the legislation signed into law by Trump on July 4 means for everyday Americans: • The largest tax cut in […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 6, 2025 Real World News President Donald Trump said that his tariffs strategy, aimed at boosting U.S. industry by taxing foreign products or forcing other nations to lower their trade barriers, is not intended to bring low-skill work such as garment manufacturing to America. “We’re not looking to make sneakers and […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 5, 2025 Real World News A Chinese national who was arrested along with her boyfriend and charged in a plot to smuggle a toxic pathogen into the United States worked at a taxpayer funded American laboratory led by two senior Chinese scientists. The Department of Justice announced that Yunqing Jian, 33, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 2, 2025 Real World News [Editor’s note: The following is adapted from a lecture by John Steele Gordon delivered in Washington, DC on May 6. Gordon is the author of “An Empire of Wealth: The Epic History of American Economic Power“. The lecture was sponsored by Hillsdale College’s Allan P. Kirby, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 1, 2025 Real World News The core Personal Consumption Expenditures Index (PCE), a key inflation measurement for the Federal Reserve, hit a four-year low in April, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysts (BEA). The index, which takes food as well as energy costs out of the equation with pricing, rose […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Stephen Moore, May 27, 2025 Here’s an economics lesson that belongs in the textbooks. Student loan debt soared to more than $1.5 trillion during the Biden presidency, and the response by Washington was to “forgive” hundreds of billions of these unpaid loans by deadbeat borrowers and let the taxpayers pick up […]
