Small Business Optimism Surges to Highest Level Ever, Topping Previous Record Under Reagan

“U.S. small business optimism surged to a record in August as the tax cuts and deregulation efforts of President Donald Trump and the Republican-led Congress led to more sales, hiring and investment, according to a survey by the National Federation of Independent Business,” John Melloy reports for CNBC.

“Small businesses have been a key beneficiary of Trump’s economic plans.”

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“President Trump observed the anniversary of Sept. 11 at a memorial service Tuesday in Shanksville, Pa., where he praised the ‘spirit’ of the 40 passengers and crew members who died trying to stop hijackers from redirecting Flight 93 toward Washington that fateful day,” Gabby Morrongiello writes in the Washington Examiner. 

“The number of job openings in the U.S. climbed to a record 6.94 million in July in a clear sign that a booming economy is entering the second half of the year with a big dollop of momentum,” Jeffry Bartash reports in MarketWatch. “Workers who switch jobs usually get better pay than those who remain in their old ones. And more people switch when they are confident about the economy.”

In The Daily Signal, foreign policy expert Brett Schaefer writes that National Security Advisor John Bolton took the right stance by repudiating the unaccountable International Criminal Court. “It is appropriate and necessary for the Trump administration to take steps to place our military personnel, our government officials, and our national interests above the interests of an international court whose jurisdiction the U.S. has never acknowledged.”

“September 11 should not be about politics, nor about Donald Trump, and surely not about Joe Scarborough,” Steve Cortes writes in RealClearPolitics. “But MSNBC’s ‘Morning Joe’ callously used the calamity of 9/11 to take cheap political shots at President Trump . . . Scarborough should apologize for denigrating our national day of remembrance.”