Lower-income Americans were more likely to spend their stimulus checks, but more Americans could also spend their stimulus checks if more businesses were open when the checks began in late April, research found. (Photo: Getty.) What did people do with their stimulus controls? People who spend most of their stimulus …
Read More »Goldman Sachs just raises its S&P 500 price target. Here’s why
COVID-19 is still raging, traders are starting to bet on “hornworms around the election,” and the US and China could not even agree on planning a scheduled meeting over the weekend. None of this is, of course, significant to the stock market. Goldman Sachs became the latest company to increase …
Read More »California plagued by scorching heat (130 degrees!), Lightning, blackouts and even fire tornadoes
After a weekend of wild and burning weather, California residents were warned Sunday to step in for Wednesday’s chance to shine. More than 200,000 PG&E Corp. PCG, -2.18% customers in Northern California on Saturday lost power in the state’s first sequence of rolling blackouts since the Enron-fueled statewide energy crisis …
Read More »The ‘excessive deaths’ in the US are 204,691 in 7 months – so COVID-19 deaths may be too bad
The death toll in the United States through July 2020 is 8% to 12% higher than it would have been if the coronavirus pandemic had never happened. That is at least 164,937 deaths above the number expected for the first seven months of the year – 16,183 more than the …
Read More »Fox News host compares Trump boat parade to Spanish Armada – there’s only one problem
“ “The Spanish Armadas have nothing to do with Trump supporters.” ” That’s Fox News host Pete Hegseth comparing the big boat parade of Trump supporters in Florida on Saturday to the Spanish Armada … which, incidentally, was crushed by the British in 1588. Here is the clip: The Spanish …
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