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6 days ago | 
theepochtimes.com | Kevin Stocklin
More health plans would qualify under new rules, but income thresholds limit who can take advantage. 5/31/2025Updated: 5/31/2025The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, passed by the House of Representatives on May 22 and currently being debated in the Senate, contains an additional tax benefit designed to help Americans pay for medical expenses. This provision expands eligibility for health savings accounts (HSAs), which allow Americans to use pre-tax money to pay for certain medical costs.
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2 weeks ago | 
epochtimes.fr | Kevin Stocklin
De nombreux économistes prédisent que l’imposition de droits de douane par le président Donald Trump – en augmentant le coût des importations – relancerait l’inflation. Les données les plus récentes indiquent cependant que le rythme de hausse des prix est resté modéré jusqu’à présent.
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2 weeks ago | 
theepochtimes.com | Kevin Stocklin
Many economists have forecast that President Donald Trump’s imposition of tariffs would, by driving up the cost of imports, revive inflation. The most recent data, however, indicate that the rate of price increases has remained subdued thus far.
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2 weeks ago | 
theepochtimes.com | Kevin Stocklin |Byrd rule
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, narrowly approved by the House of Representatives on May 22, includes a tax break for Americans older than 65 in the form of a temporary deduction of $4,000. In lieu of President Donald Trump’s campaign pledge to eliminate taxes on Social Security benefits, this deduction, called the “senior bonus,” would offer a smaller tax cut, targeted to benefit lower-income seniors.
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3 weeks ago | 
theepochtimes.com | Kevin Stocklin
America’s equity markets are experiencing a dearth of new companies coming to market, with the result that stock market investors are increasingly concentrating their money in established, large-cap companies. The past several years of solid stock market performance and historically high valuations for publicly traded U.S. companies would normally have brought a flood of new companies raising capital through initial public offerings (IPOs) of shares, a March report by Russell Investments states.
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1 month ago | 
theepochtimes.com | Kevin Stocklin
Opinions are sharply divided regarding President Donald Trump’s initiative to spur undersea mining for minerals used in the production of batteries, electronics, and steel, which are deemed critical to U.S. national security. On April 24, Trump issued an executive order on “unleashing America’s offshore critical minerals,” which would accelerate the approval process for the exploration and extraction of minerals by deep-sea mining.
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1 month ago | 
heartlandernews.com | Kevin Stocklin
(The Daily Signal) – As gunmakers flee an increasingly inhospitable environment in blue states, Tennessee lawmakers took action this month to protect the state’s firearms industry from a proliferation of “weaponized” lawsuits. On April 15, the Tennessee General Assembly passed House Bill 873 / Senate Bill 1360, which shields manufacturers and sellers of guns, ammunition, and other weapons from lawsuits over the criminal misuse of their products by a third party.
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1 month ago | 
dailysignal.com | Kevin Stocklin
Today, even with President Trump’s victory, leftist elites have their tentacles in every aspect of our government.
The Daily Signal’s own Tyler O’Neil exposes this leftist cabal in his new book, The Woketopus: The Dark Money Cabal Manipulating the Federal Government.
In this book, O’Neil reveals how the Left’s NGO apparatus pursues its woke agenda, maneuvering like an octopus by circumventing Congress and entrenching its interests in the federal government.
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2 months ago | 
theepochtimes.com | Kevin Stocklin
In February, the commission’s chairman told staff that the agency would follow the merger guidelines put in place by his predecessor. 4/5/2025Updated: 4/5/2025News AnalysisDespite sweeping into office on a deregulation platform, it is uncertain how much federal antitrust actions will change under the Trump administration compared to its predecessor. After President Donald Trump’s victory in November last year, many analysts expected that 2025 would be a banner year for mergers and acquisitions.
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2 months ago | 
theepochtimes.com | Kevin Stocklin
News AnalysisDespite sweeping into office on a deregulation platform, it is uncertain how much federal antitrust actions will change under the Trump administration from what it was under President Joe Biden. After President Donald Trump’s election in November 2024, many analysts expected that 2025 would be a banner year for mergers and acquisitions (M&A).
