June 18, 2020
“Weekly jobless claims stayed above 1 million for the 13th consecutive week as the coronavirus pandemic continued to hammer at the U.S. economy. First-time claims totaled 1.5 million last week, higher than the 1.3 million that economists surveyed by Dow… Continue Reading…
April 30, 2020
“…The Dow Jones Industrial Average traded 134 points, or 0.5%. The S&P 500 slid 0.4%. The Nasdaq Composite rose marginally. Earlier in the session, the Dow dropped more than 300 points. A 3.8% jump in Boeing shares helped the Dow claw back some of its earlier… Continue Reading…
April 22, 2020
“In late February, the Trump administration said it planned to spend $2.5 billion to fight the coronavirus. A month and a half later, President Trump signed off on spending almost a thousand times as much — $2.35 trillion. And that amount… Continue Reading…
March 23, 2020
“Some 23 million jobs may be in immediate danger from the massive disruptions to the U.S. economy from the coronavirus epidemic. Americans who work in retail, airlines, travel agencies, restaurants, hotels and entertainment are the most vulnerable, according to a new… Continue Reading…
March 10, 2020
“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…
February 24, 2020
“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…
February 5, 2020
“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…
November 4, 2019
“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…
August 27, 2019
“…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…
April 18, 2019
“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…
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