May 13, 2020
“New York: The worst recession since the Great Depression is prompting indebted companies to default, and increasingly more will do so in a way that’s harder for investors to detect. Rating firms predict that more companies will pursue distressed debt… Continue Reading…
March 12, 2020
“During the October-February period, the government spent a record $1,991,272,000,000 while it collected a record $1,366,750,000,000 in taxes… Thus, while running up records in taxing and spending for the first five months of the fiscal year, the federal government also… Continue Reading…
February 14, 2020
“The federal government set records for both the amount of taxes it collected and the amount of money it spent in the first four months of fiscal 2020 (October through January), according to data released today in the Monthly Treasury Statement.… Continue Reading…
January 15, 2020
“The federal government spent a record $1,163,090,000,000 in the first three months of fiscal 2020 (October through December), according to the Monthly Treasury Statement released Monday afternoon. That was up $48,008,200,000 from the $1,115,081,800,000 (in constant December 2019 dollars) that the… Continue Reading…
December 30, 2019
“Holiday shopping set records over the weekend, with Super Saturday sales reaching $34.4 billion, the biggest single day in U.S. retail history, according to Customer Growth Partners… … As retailers offer improved web platforms, online spending so far this season has… Continue Reading…
December 4, 2019
“On Black Friday, shoppers spent a record-breaking $7.4 billion, according to preliminary data published by Adobe Analytics, which measures transactions from 80 of the top 100 online retailers. It marks the second-largest online sales day ever, falling slightly short of last year’s Cyber… Continue Reading…
October 30, 2019
“… Dogged by lower prices and tepid demand, U.S. wheat farmers are poised to plant the fewest acres of winter varieties in 110 years… …World supplies are so plentiful that futures for hard red winter wheat are down about 15%… Continue Reading…
October 29, 2019
“The amount of money the federal government collected in individual income taxes and the total amount of money the federal government spent both set records in fiscal 2019, according to the Monthly Treasury Statement released Friday afternoon. …the federal government… Continue Reading…
August 15, 2019
“The federal government spent a record $3,355,970,000,000 in the first nine months of fiscal 2019 (October through June), according to the Monthly Treasury Statement released today. Prior to this fiscal year, the most the federal government had ever spent in the… Continue Reading…
May 14, 2019
“The federal government spent $2,573,708,000,000 in the first seven months of fiscal 2019 (October through April), setting an all-time record for real federal spending in the first seven months of a fiscal year, according to data published in the Monthly Treasury… Continue Reading…
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