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Tag Archives: COVID-19
Happy Consumers Are the Key…
Popular Economics Weekly FREDretailsales Are we heading for a fall in the Fall when the ordinary flu season begins? The chickens may be coming home to roost, as the saying goes, because the US economy opened to soon. Retail sales … Continue reading
Posted in Consumers, Economy, Politics, Weekly Financial News
Tagged Consumer sentiment, COVID-19, influenza, pandemic, retail sales
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What Future Job Growth?
Financial FAQs Calculated Risk The Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) put out by the Labor Department (BLS) probably only makes sense to economists, because it gives a picture of the job market in coming months, as well as … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Macro Economics, Politics, Weekly Financial News
Tagged coronavirus pandemic, COVID-19, interest rates, job openings, JOLTS report
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Alas, The Recovery That Was…
Financial FAQs Reuters.com Because the deadline has passed to renew unemployment benefits enacted by the CARES Act, it looks like there will be no quick economic recovery in the fall. I am supposing the recovery could ultimately be shaped like … Continue reading
Posted in Consumers, Economy, Politics, Weekly Financial News
Tagged consumer spending, COVID-19, GDP growth, Great Recession, unemployment report
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Our ‘Whac-A-Mole’ Recovery
Financial FAQs FREDinitialclaims Initial jobless claim for the week ending were slightly up at 1,416,000 for the week ending July 18, which means that the reversals of business openings as COVID-19 infection rates soar again have flattened the wrong curve—applications … Continue reading
Posted in Consumers, Economy, Politics, Uncategorized
Tagged COVID-19, GDP growth, initial jobless claims, pandemic
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What ‘V’– Shaped Recovery?
Popular Economics Weekly FREDInitialClaims It’s becoming obvious to me there will be no ‘V’ shaped economic recovery with positive GDP growth resuming in the fall and winter quarters, after the plunges we are seeing in Q1 and projected Q2 growth. … Continue reading
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Tagged CBO, COVID-19, GDP growth, Great Recession
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Who Says There’s No Leadership?
Answering the Kennedys’ Call http://www.nippon.com Critics of the Trump administration and its Republican Party enablers have it exactly backward when they say the federal government isn’t leading the effort to control the novel coronavirus pandemic. They have in fact been … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized
Tagged arne duncan, COVID-19, Donald Trump, novel coronavirus, republican party, Supreme Court
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Who Says There’s No Leadership?
Answering the Kennedys’ Call http://www.nippon.com Critics of the Trump administration and its Republican Party enablers have it exactly backward when they say the federal government isn’t leading the effort to control the novel coronavirus pandemic. They have in fact been … Continue reading
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Tagged arne duncan, COVID-19, Donald Trump, novel coronavirus, republican party, Supreme Court
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“When Will We Ever Learn?”
Answering the Kennedys’ Call @TBPInvictus Bob Dylan wrote his ode to ending wars, Where Have All the Flowers Gone? in the 1960s but it could just as well apply to today’s war against the novel coronavirus pandemic that is killing … Continue reading
“When Will We Ever Learn?”
Answering the Kennedys’ Call @TBPInvictus Pete Seeger first wrote his ode to ending wars, Where Have All the Flowers Gone? in 1955 but it could just as well apply to today’s war against the novel coronavirus pandemic that is killing … Continue reading
COVID-19—WHO Wins?
Popular Economics Weekly https://twitter.com/jfkirkegaard Conquering the pandemic really means depending on the cooperation across borders of races and ethnicities that separate regions and countries. COVID-19 is winning the battle in those countries and states with the worst outbreaks that believe … Continue reading
Posted in Consumers, Economy, Politics, Uncategorized
Tagged COVID-19, euro zone, red states, WHO
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