April 11, 2024
“…The CPI, a broad measure of goods and services costs across the economy, rose 0.4% for the month, putting the 12-month inflation rate at 3.5%, or 0.3 percentage point higher than in February, the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Wednesday. Economists… Continue Reading…
April 10, 2024
“There is a record number of areas in the U.S. where the “typical” home is worth $1 million or more. In February, the country had 550 “million-dollar” cities, or areas where the “typical” home value is $1 million or more,… Continue Reading…
April 10, 2024
“Washington continues to spend like deficits and debt don’t matter, and the politicians would rather you don’t know. For the record, the Congressional Budget Office reported Monday that the federal budget deficit for the first six months of fiscal 2024,… Continue Reading…
April 9, 2024
“TOKYO—Japan’s largest telecommunications company and the country’s biggest newspaper called for speedy legislation to restrain generative artificial intelligence, saying democracy and social order could collapse if AI is left unchecked. Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, or NTT, and Yomiuri Shimbun Group… Continue Reading…
April 9, 2024
“…The U.S. Census Bureau reported in March that California’s population as of last July had dropped to an estimated 38,965,000. That’s down by 75,400 in a year — and 573,000 below California’s peak of 39.5 million in 2020. Entering this… Continue Reading…
April 5, 2024
“…Nonfarm payrolls increased 303,000 for the month, well above the Dow Jones estimate for a rise of 200,000 and higher than the downwardly revised 270,000 gain in February, the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday…” https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/05/job-growth-totaled-303000-in-march-better-than-expected-and-unemployment-was-3point8percent.html I dont… Continue Reading…
April 5, 2024
“Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel said on Thursday his communist-run government has secured supply of key subsidized food rations as he moved to defuse tensions just two weeks after protesters took to the streets over widespread shortages… The shortages, combined with… Continue Reading…
April 5, 2024
“A coalition of California companies is going to war with Gov. Gavin Newsom and his Democratic allies over taxes it says have grown out of control in the Golden State. The businesses have gathered enough signatures to put a measure on November’s… Continue Reading…
April 5, 2024
“…The global benchmark Brent earlier pierced $91 a barrel, before trading little changed. The focus has shifted to a dramatic repricing of geopolitical risk, after Israel increased preparations for a potential retaliation by Tehran to a strike on an Iranian… Continue Reading…
April 5, 2024
“…CNBC’s International Your Money Financial Security Survey polled about 500 people each in nine countries. Of the 498 people surveyed in the U.S., more than half (53%) said they’re behind schedule in retirement planning and savings. The poll was conducted by… Continue Reading…
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