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“#803,000 filed amid COVID-19 surge” American workers filed 803,000 applications for jobless benefits last week, an unexpected decrease as the coronavirus kept the labor market under pressure, the feds said Wednesday. The latest batch of initial jobless claims brought the total reported during the COVID-19 pandemic to about 72.2 million — equivalent to roughly 45 percent…
“#Ted Cruz’s lame asylum-ban logic and other commentary” Libertarian: Cruz’s Lame Asylum-Ban Logic Sen. Ted Cruz offered a “weak” rationale for his surprise move to block a bill to grant “political asylum to residents of Hong Kong fleeing China’s increasingly oppressive rule,” notes Ilya Somin at The Volokh Conspiracy: a claim that it would make…
“#When will the second stimulus checks arrive? What we know” After nearly nine months and seemingly endless negotiations in Washington, millions of Americans could soon get a second stimulus check. Congressional leaders unveiled a roughly $900 billion stimulus deal on Sunday that calls for another round of direct payments to help Americans get through the…
“#We need to save Manhattan retail to protect jobs for New Yorkers” More from: Before COVID-19, employment in New York was at a record high, with nearly 4.1 million private-economy jobs. And one of the biggest engines of growth was a career opportunity that has existed since Roman times: the supposedly humble job in a…
“#Ex-Goldman Sachs exec warns of wealth gap ‘revolution’” One Wall Street power player is urging his fellow one-percenters to help close the growing wealth gap — or risk staring down pitchforks and guillotines. Ex-Goldman Sachs chief financial officer Marty Chavez sounded off on income inequality during an interview with financial news site The Business of…
“#Tax cuts for the rich failed to boost economic growth: study” Cutting taxes for rich people made developed countries more unequal but failed to grow their economies over the last half-century, a new study says. The paper from the London School of Economics and King’s College London challenges the idea that trickle-down tax policies —…
“# Anthony Pompliano breaks down his Bitcoin outlook for 2021 ” In an exclusive interview with Cointelegraph, Pomp reaffirmed the Bitcoin price prediction he made back in 2019. “It’s going to be pretty aggressive. I am pretty confident in Bitcoin to $100K by the end of 2021.” Together with favorable macroeconomic conditions, Pompliano sees the…
“#State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli just put the state pension fund on the road to ruin” Tom DiNapoli, a Nassau County boy who went to Albany and made good, has been New York’s chief fiscal officer since 2007. It’s a job he has done well and without excessive drama — precisely what one wants in a…
“#Europe approves stimulus in response to lockdowns hurting businesses” FRANKFURT, Germany — The European Central Bank unleashed another half-trillion euro ($600 billion) wave of stimulus as a winter surge in COVID-19 infections shuts down large parts of the economy and wipes out pre-Christmas sales revenue ahead of the region’s most important holiday. The 25-member governing…
“#What Canada’s economic recovery might look like” How does Canada come back from its massive pandemic deficit? Depends who you tax. With its seemingly unending pandemic spending, the federal government is heading toward a major deficit. Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland hasn’t announced any fiscal targets, but estimates put the shortfall as high as $343 billion….