#Vitamin sellers flagged by feds got coronavirus aid loans

#Vitamin sellers flagged by feds got coronavirus aid loans

“#Vitamin sellers flagged by feds got coronavirus aid loans” A trio of supplements sellers snagged millions in coronavirus relief loans last spring — all within weeks of getting dinged by the feds for questionable claims about their products, The Post has learned. The vitamin marketers joined the rush for Paycheck Protection Program aid in early…

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#Housing may again be behind the 2008-ball

#Housing may again be behind the 2008-ball

“#Housing may again be behind the 2008-ball” We seem to be living in an era of the unexpected disaster: A virus that suddenly shuts down the US economy and ends life as we know it. A banking system that is at one minute solvent, and the next on the brink of collapse.  Of course, such…

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#Andrew Cuomo’s poisonous green dreams

#Andrew Cuomo’s poisonous green dreams

“#Andrew Cuomo’s poisonous green dreams” Despite declaring that the state’s economy is in a recession, Gov. Cuomo this week still announced a new $26 billion clean-energy plan that’s guaranteed to make it that much harder to get good times rolling again. “We must replace fossil-fuel plants with clean power. There are no ifs, ands or…

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#More people would get them under Biden plan

#More people would get them under Biden plan

“#More people would get them under Biden plan“ Joe Biden wants to send millions of Americans their third stimulus check — and give others their first. The president-elect’s $1.9 trillion economic relief plan calls for yet another round of direct payments to help people pay bills and support their families during the coronavirus pandemic. The proposal would…

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#US loses 140,000 jobs, 6.7 percent unemployment

#US loses 140,000 jobs, 6.7 percent unemployment

“#US loses 140,000 jobs, 6.7 percent unemployment” The US economy lost jobs for the first time in eight months in December as a deadly surge in coronavirus infections sparked a new wave of lockdown measures. Employers shed 140,000 jobs last month while the unemployment rate remained steady at 6.7 percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics…

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#Why China’s economy won’t surpass the US’s by 2028

#Why China’s economy won’t surpass the US’s by 2028

“#Why China’s economy won’t surpass the US’s by 2028” A new report from the Center for Economics and Business Research says that China will displace the United States as the dominant economy on the planet by 2028.  The London-based group also claims that, alone among the major powers, China has shrugged off the coronavirus and…

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#What I started to learn at 18

#What I started to learn at 18

“#What I started to learn at 18” One Christmas in the mid-1990s, I managed the holiday-music section at a suburban Tower Records. The time went by in a blur —­ but if I could go back and give my teenage self some advice, I would say: Relax and Merry Christmas!  At 18, I was having…

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