About half of the National Association of Business Economists members expect that US gross domestic product – the broadest measure of the economy – will not return to its pre-pandemic level until 2022. A majority of those experts also say that the US labor market back will be until early …
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Fed up. Every day there is a new story about the death of New York, how we are so broken that we can never be rebuilt. And every day brings a new crazy piece of news to a New York already on the verge of proving those people right. Our …
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The weakening of the US dollar is set to slide even further, but its importance as the world’s reserve currency is unlikely to diminish, according to analysts. The greenback had benefited when investors flew to safety amid the pandemic, which carried it to a half-and-a-half-year high in March. But now …
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It was mostly Democrats who watched last week’s convention, and they love what they saw. Now that Republicans are starting theirs, we find a Republican Party whose voters not only have a different view of things in America than Democrats do – but also one very different from most voters …
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency, which oversees program funding, had approved 13 states to offer the additional unemployment benefits starting at noon ET on Friday. Those states are: Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Utah. Seven others – Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, California, …
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