Articles by EJ Antoni

EconomyCommentary

Japan’s Crash Is Our Canary in the Coal Mine

EJ Antoni | January 23, 2026

On Tuesday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average stock index crashed 870 points, the biggest drop since October. The mainstream media predictably blamed President Donald Trump’s… Read More

EconomyCommentary

Will Trump Create an American Comeback After Biden’s Dismal Economy?

EJ Antoni | January 18, 2026

After a four-year economic bacchanalia, America was left with a cost-of-living crisis. Runaway government spending and overregulation pushed up prices for many essentials at a… Read More

EconomyCommentary

How Canada’s Only Leverage Over America Disappeared in an Instant

EJ Antoni | January 17, 2026

Trump’s operation to capture Nicolás Maduro in the early hours of Jan. 3 was a title wave that changed global politics drastically. Not only was… Read More

EconomyCommentary

Jerome Powell Gets His First Subpoena

EJ Antoni | January 14, 2026

The Federal Reserve has gone rogue, and perhaps it’s time to shut it down. On Monday, Fed Chair Jerome Powell released a video looking all… Read More

EconomyCommentary

Trump Provides Solution to Housing Crisis

EJ Antoni | January 09, 2026

President Donald Trump announced on Jan. 7 plans to ban institutional investors from buying up homes and renting them back to Americans. You’ll Own Something… Read More

EconomyCommentary

EJ Antoni on Affordability: ‘Keep Your Foot Down on the Throttle, Mr. President’

EJ Antoni | December 22, 2025

The new buzzword today seems to be affordability. Suddenly, the entire media has woken up to the fact that Americans are in a cost-of-living crisis, something… Read More

EconomyCommentary

How We Can Finally Overcome the Affordability Crisis

EJ Antoni | November 24, 2025

Disapproval of the state of the economy is widespread today, despite many indicators improving since the start of the year. The reality is that most… Read More

EconomyCommentary

50-Year Mortgages Won’t Fix the Affordability Crisis

EJ Antoni | November 23, 2025

Bill Pulte, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, recently floated the idea of offering people a 50-year mortgage instead of the more conventional 30-year… Read More

EconomyCommentary

Trump Economy Defies Doomsday Predictions

EJ Antoni | July 13, 2025

Many so-called experts predicted that President Donald Trump’s economic agenda would usher in an inflationary Armageddon. This projection was so often repeated in the media that many… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Elon Built the DOGE Rocket and It’s Going to Keep Flying

EJ Antoni | June 05, 2025

Elon Musk has led the Department of Government Efficiency to incredible success in a mere four months, exposing hundreds of billions of dollars in government waste…. Read More

EconomyAnalysis

Trump’s Tariff Strategy Can Work but America Still Needs Deeper Economic Reform

EJ Antoni | May 20, 2025

President Donald Trump’s tariff diplomacy has been a shock treatment to the global economic order, intended as a kind of radiation and chemotherapy to kill the cancer… Read More

EconomyCommentary

Trump’s Tariff Critics Are Trading on Overblown and Unfounded Fears

EJ Antoni | February 06, 2025

The market analysts and so-called economists panicking over President Donald Trump’s tariffs must be at least somewhat relieved that he’s agreed to pause the ones he wants… Read More

EconomyCommentary

Seniors Are Getting Crushed by Washington’s Recklessness

EJ Antoni | November 11, 2024

Inflation has pulverized Americans’ finances over the last four years, and a new study shows that’s especially true for the nation’s seniors, whose retirement accounts have been… Read More

EconomyCommentary

Government Delivered Inflation—but No Real Aid—in North Carolina

EJ Antoni | November 11, 2024

North Carolina can’t catch a break under the Biden-Harris administration. The federal government’s appalling response to Hurricane Helene almost surely cost lives, adding insult to the… Read More

EconomyCommentary

Potato-Famine Economics, Courtesy of Biden-Harris

EJ Antoni | September 05, 2024

If you’ve had to change your buying habits at the supermarket lately to save money, you’re not alone. The stratospheric rise in food prices in… Read More

EducationCommentary

Federal Court to Biden on Student Loan Bailout: It’s (Still) Illegal

EJ Antoni | August 31, 2024

When the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals blocked the Biden-Harris administration’s latest student loan bailout scheme, it potentially saved American taxpayers nearly half a trillion dollars. Now,… Read More

EconomyCommentary

How the Radical Left Wrecked the Housing Market

EJ Antoni | July 11, 2024

Home affordability just hit a 17-year low, which means the dream of homeownership remains unattainable for the average person. Amid a cost-of-living crisis, saving enough for a downpayment… Read More

EconomyCommentary

Why We’re Adding Far Fewer Jobs Than the White House Claims

EJ Antoni | June 21, 2024

Most Americans are so dissatisfied with the economy that they think the nation is already in recession. Yet the Biden administration often cites robust job growth as proof that the… Read More

EconomyCommentary

Job Market Looks Good Only If You Ignore What’s Really Going On

EJ Antoni | June 20, 2024

The Biden administration has turned the U.S. labor market into a temporary employment agency for foreigners, leaving American workers behind, and the administration’s own data… Read More

EconomyCommentary

Your Money Problems Are Imaginary, the White House Claims. The Facts Say Otherwise.

EJ Antoni | June 10, 2024

Millions of Americans are struggling to afford necessities like food, rent, insurance, and a car payment. But if you’re one of them, don’t expect any… Read More

EconomyCommentary

Biden Turns American Dream of Retirement Into a Nightmare

EJ Antoni | June 01, 2024

If you’re one of the millions of Americans struggling to save for retirement today, get ready for more struggle, at least if President Joe Biden… Read More

EconomyCommentary

Biden’s Housing Headache

EJ Antoni | May 31, 2024

President Joe Biden promised to lower housing costs during his State of the Union address earlier this spring. To date, his plan has been an… Read More

EconomyCommentary

Biden’s Indifference to Americans’ Plight of Soaring Food Prices Is Appalling

EJ Antoni | May 24, 2024

If you’re having trouble affording groceries, don’t expect sympathy from the White House. In a recent interview, President Joe Biden was told that food prices… Read More

EconomyCommentary

Biden Lied, Your Wallet Died

EJ Antoni | May 16, 2024

President Joe Biden’s retelling of economic history could win a fiction award. He recently claimed in an interview that inflation “was 9% when I came into… Read More

EconomyCommentary

Here’s What Biden Admin Apologists Aren’t Telling You About Jobless Rate

EJ Antoni | May 09, 2024

Americans consistently voice their disapproval on the state of the economy in recent polls, largely because of the stratospheric cost of living. But apologists for the Biden administration point… Read More

 EconomyCommentary

‘Green’ Housing Mandates Push Americans Further Into the Red

EJ Antoni | May 09, 2024

Home prices across the nation are back up near a record high. That makes this a particularly bad time for the Biden administration to have rolled… Read More

Economy Commentary

Latest Job-Killing Policy Spells More Bad News for Californians

EJ Antoni | April 24, 2024

California’s list of public policy failures was already long, but hiking its minimum wage to $20 an hour for fast-food workers may belong at the top…. Read More

EconomyCommentary

Automobile ‘Bidenvilles’ Are the New Shantytowns Amid US Housing Affordability Crisis

EJ Antoni | April 03, 2024

When people couldn’t afford housing during the Great Depression, they built shantytowns from scrap construction supplies and named them “Hoovervilles,” after President Herbert Hoover. Today,… Read More

EconomyCommentary

How the Fed Helped Create a Permanent American Underclass

EJ Antoni | March 28, 2024

In 1913, Woodrow Wilson and his progressives promised that the Federal Reserve would avert both depressions and inflation, while preventing the wealthy from controlling America’s financial markets… Read More

EconomyCommentary

The More the Feds ‘Borrow,’ the More We Pay for Mortgages, Credit Cards, Student Loans

EJ Antoni | March 21, 2024

If you think the Treasury Department borrowing trillions of dollars is a problem only for future generations, think again. The interest rates on your credit… Read More