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Economy

“Trump to fight coronavirus economic impact with payroll tax cut proposal and other programs”

“President Trump and his coronavirus task force spoke to the nation again Monday night and spoke of  “major” and “very dramatic” economic plans as a result of the coronavirus outbreak. Trump said he would go to Capitol Hill on Tuesday and ask for Congress to approve a… Continue Reading…

Economy

“Dow plunges by 950 points on fears coronavirus will tank global economic growth”

“The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell by more than 950 points at the open, erasing all gains for the blue-chip index for the year. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq were both down by around 4 percent, marking the biggest daily… Continue Reading…

Economy

Record Economic Optimism: Highest In 44 Years

“Economic optimism has reached a 44-year high and economic gloom a record low under President Trump in the latest survey that shows people in the United States are cheering their best personal economy in decades. For the first time in… Continue Reading…

Economy

“The IMF thinks this small South American country will see economic growth of 86% next year”

“Guyana, a country of about 780,000 which shares a border with Brazil, Suriname and Venezuela in the northeast of South America, will see economic growth of 86% in 2020, according to the IMF. That’s up from 4.4% in 2019. Such an explosive expansion of… Continue Reading…

Economy, Personal Finance

“The Next Recession Will Destroy Millennials”

“…if it happens, when it starts happening—stands to hit this much-maligned generation particularly hard. For adults between the ages of 22 and 38, after all, the last recession never really ended…  As they pitch toward middle age, they are failing… Continue Reading…

Business

“Amazon isn’t the only company that paid $0 in federal taxes last year”

“Under President Trump’s new tax law, 60 of America’s biggest corporations paid $0 in federal taxes in 2018, despite earning billions of dollars in profits. Amazon, Netflix, General Motors, Chevron, JetBlue, IBM and U.S. Steel were all among the companies… Continue Reading…

Economy

“American retailers already announced 6,000 store closures this year. That’s more than all of last year”

“This year, US retailers have announced that 5,994 stores will close. That number already exceeds last year’s total of 5,864 closure announcements, according to a recent report from Coresight Research. Bankruptcies in the retail sector are piling up and chains… Continue Reading…

Economy

“50,219,667 Tax Return Filers Paid $0 or Less in Income Taxes”

“Of the 150,272,157 tax returns filed for the 2016 tax year, 50,219,667—or 33.4 percent–were classified by the Internal Revenue Service as “nontaxable returns,” meaning the people who filed them paid $0 or less in income taxes, according to data published… Continue Reading…

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“Los Angeles Is Having a Loud Economic Boom”

“L.A.’s gross domestic product per capita surged 11.8 percent the past five years, dwarfing Chicago’s 7.4 percent, almost three times New York’s 4.1 percent and twice the average for 383 U.S. metropolitan areas, Bloomberg data show. Some of the gain… Continue Reading…