By Doug Bailey The 2017 tax cuts that helped corporate America, particularly insurance companies, should be extended, according to President-elect Donald Trump’s candidate for U.S. treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, CEO and CIO of hedge fund Key Square Group. Testifying at his confirmation hearings before Congress Thursday, Bessent said Trump’s tax cuts, set to expire at the end of this year, should be sustained. “We must make permanent the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and implement new...

By Doug Bailey Along with a baffling rise in post-pandemic mortality rates that has insurers stymied, the number of Americans claiming disabilities has skyrocketed since 2020, adding another puzzling factor that could impact corporate bottom lines. After rising slowly and steadily since the turn of the century and hovering between 25 million and 27 million, the number of disabled among the U.S. population rose nearly 35 percent in the last four years, to an all-time high of 38,844,000 at the...