#US retail sales hit a wall amid coronavirus surge

#US retail sales hit a wall amid coronavirus surge

“#US retail sales hit a wall amid coronavirus surge” The recovery in US retail sales slowed last month as consumers confronted a surge in coronavirus infections and a lack of government aid to see them through the pandemic. Retailers’ total sales rose just 0.3 percent to about $553 billion in October following September’s 1.6 percent…

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#Nearly 300 firms that got COVID-19 loans have folded: report

#Nearly 300 firms that got COVID-19 loans have folded: report

“#Nearly 300 firms that got COVID-19 loans have folded: report” Nearly 300 American businesses have folded despite receiving hundreds of millions of dollars in federal loans meant to keep them afloat during the coronavirus pandemic, a new report says. Some 285 companies that got aid from the Trump administration’s Paycheck Protection Program have filed for…

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#New York sheriffs won’t enforce Cuomo’s Thanksgiving cap

#New York sheriffs won’t enforce Cuomo’s Thanksgiving cap

“#New York sheriffs won’t enforce Cuomo’s Thanksgiving cap” Three more upstate New York sheriffs have announced their refusal to enforce the state’s private gathering limit on Thanksgiving. In a scathing Facebook post on Saturday, Fulton County Sheriff Richard Giardino questioned the legality of Gov. Cuomo’s newly instituted 10-person cap on parties and other gatherings in…

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#The pandemic brought an assault on our basic rights

#The pandemic brought an assault on our basic rights

“#The pandemic brought an assault on our basic rights” The usual mainstream-media suspects wasted no time in blasting as inappropriate Samuel Alito’s address last week to the Federalist ­Society. Which is another way of saying they didn’t like what he had to say. The Supreme Court justice warned that “religious liberty is fast becoming a…

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#NYC bureaucrats’ latest bid to kill restaurants

#NYC bureaucrats’ latest bid to kill restaurants

“#NYC bureaucrats’ latest bid to kill restaurants” As if city restaurants and bars weren’t already dying left and right, Mayor Bill de Blasio’s Department of Transportation just dropped a phone book of new regulations on their outdoor-dining shelters — a whole host of added hoops to jump through if they want to keep serving as…

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