America is taking some hits from abroad. iStockphoto United States of America, free land and overweight, loud, evangelical, gun-loving warmen? The U.S., indeed, has a lot of jokes about our friends (and enemies) abroad. Let’s just say that the last few years have done little to stop the ridicule flowing …
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Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Israeli When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu traveled to Saudi Arabia last week for a secret night with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, he and his Washington counterparts long hoped for a normalization deal between the Middle East. Saudi advisers and U.S. officials said rivals had …
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Treasury Secretary Steven Munuchi refused to extend some of the emergency loan programs jointly established with the Federal Reserve, which is due to expire on December 31. The Fed’s corporate credit, municipal financing and main street financing programs will not be renewed, Mr. Muchin said Thursday. The central bank expressed …
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Amazon.com has been one of the most innovative and disorganized companies of this century, with incredible success in areas beyond historically considered its core business (book sales). Thus every ad or speculation Amazon AMZN, -0.96% Whoever enters a particular industry sends the shares of that industry into the tailspin. Investors …
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The size of the text Carnival’s Ecstasy cruise ship, docked at Jacksonville harbor, amid a coronavirus outbreak in late March. Sam Greenwood / Getty Images U.S. Two of the three major cruise operators have announced capital increases this week, the latest in a series of similar moves in recent months …
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