August 22, 2024
“Vice President Kamala Harris is calling for raising the corporate tax rate to 28%, her first major proposal to raise revenues and finance expensive plans she wants to pursue as president…” https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/19/harris-proposes-raising-the-corporate-tax-rate-to-28percent-rolling-back-a-trump-law.html Americans are overtaxed as is. We’re being robbed… Continue Reading…
August 22, 2024
“Bookings for domestic travel over the US Labor Day weekend are up 9% from last year, according to motor club AAA. While the estimate only includes travel booked through AAA, the data adds to a sanguine picture for summer fuel… Continue Reading…
August 22, 2024
“US job growth in the year through March was likely far less robust than initially estimated, which risks fueling concerns that the Federal Reserve is falling further behind the curve to lower interest rates. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and… Continue Reading…
August 20, 2024
““On a clear day, you can see the top of Mount Washington,” says Joanne Ricciardiello, peering through a curtain of towering oak and pine trees that surrounds her newly built, roughly 4,300-square-foot home on Maine’s Sebago Lake. She walks down… Continue Reading…
August 20, 2024
“The consumer price index, a broad-based measure of prices for goods and services, increased 0.2% for the month, putting the 12-month inflation rate at 2.9%, its lowest since March 2021. Excluding food and energy, core CPI came in at a… Continue Reading…
August 20, 2024
“Price hikes slowed more than expected in July, and, for the first time in more than three years, the Consumer Price Index has landed below 3%. That paves the way for the Federal Reserve to cut rates next month after… Continue Reading…
August 20, 2024
“Citing higher costs and difficulty making ends meet, 3 in 5 Americans falsely believe that the U.S. is currently in a recession, according to a recent report. Economists have wrestled with the growing disconnect between how well the economy is doing and… Continue Reading…
August 14, 2024
“Calls for higher taxes on the super-rich are gaining traction and even conservative governments are joining in… “I don’t think I have seen such big a transformation in the narrative around the tax on wealth as I have in the… Continue Reading…
August 14, 2024
“Americans now owe a record $1.14 trillion on their credit cards, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York reported Tuesday. The average balance per consumer stands at $6,329, up 4.8% year over year, according to a separate quarterly credit industry insights report from TransUnion…” https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/08/credit-card-debt-and-delinquencies-are-on-the-rise-reports-finds.html I… Continue Reading…
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