Americans filed a record number of complaints with the Office of Consumer Financial Protection in March, when the coronavirus pandemic began flooding hospitals and raising unemployment rates. Every month since then, consumer complaint numbers have reached record levels set the previous month, according to a report Friday by consumer advocacy …
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President Donald Trump speaks on “Rebuilding America’s Infrastructure: Faster, Better, and Stronger” in Atlanta on July 15. Jim Watson | AFP | fake pictures His salary could increase if the White House gets away with it. President Trump said this week that he will not sign the next coronavirus relief …
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How much of your retirement savings are you currently gambling with the fortune of just six companies? If you have them on an S&P 500 SPX, -0.14% Stock index fund, the answer is: about a quarter. That’s what the so-called “FANMAG” —Facebook FB, -0.70%, Apple AAPL, -0.46%, Netflix NFLX, -7.44%, …
Read More »‘This was preventable’: US coronavirus cases hit a new record of 70,000 in a single day
The increase in coronavirus cases has reached a new record. On Thursday, the US recorded more than 70,000 new cases of COVID-19, compared to 20,000 per day in June, according to aggregated data from Johns Hopkins University, the COVID Monitoring Project, and other independent estimates from the Washington Post. and …
Read More »USA Today says Peter Navarro’s op-ed criticizing Anthony Fauci was “misleading” and did not meet “fact-check standards”
Just as the war of words between Anthony Fauci and the Trump administration seemed poised to come to a stop, things suddenly took another nasty turn. The fractured relationship between President Donald Trump and Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for three decades and …
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