Jobless claims break on through – 1M+ jobs report for April looks likely As I have said for the past few weeks, new jobless claims are likely to the most important weekly economic data for the next 3 to 6 months. With the number of those...
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Paul Constant is a writer at Civic Ventures and cohost of the "Pitchfork Economics" podcast with Nick...
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The IMF And The Jobless Recovery
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The International Monetary Fund has published its April outlook for the global economy. It has been hailed by most commentators due to the strong upgrade in GDP recovery....
After over a year of Democrats and their allies in the liberal media repeatedly demanding trillions of taxpayer dollars be spent on COVID relief and expanding unemployment benefits, on Friday, MSNBC anchor Stephanie Ruhle discovered people were...
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A massive shift is occurring in the labor market today, one that has been misinterpreted by economists of all stripes: On the right, there is the false meme that lazy workers are staying home because the (3) massive CARES Act....
Happy Thursday and welcome back to On The Money, where we’re celebrating the rebounding Nepalese rhino population. I’m Sylvan Lane, and here’s your nightly guide to everything affecting your bills, bank account and bottom line.See something I...
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Daily Briefing: The Bumpy Road to Reopening, Long-Term Supply Shortages, and Inflation
Real Vision managing editor Ed Harrison welcomes back Jim Bianco, president of Bianco Research, to discuss the newest release in the weekly jobless...
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Small businesses across the country have reportedly fallen on hard times in recent months, but not for lack of business. Rather, they suggest that pandemic-related government handouts are keeping much-needed workers out of the labor force.Business...
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This new legislation would standardize federal unemployment benefits and ensure that extra aid is added when the unemployment rate surges across the country.
A pair of Senate Democrats introduced a vast...
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US stocks climbed to record highs on Thursday after weekly jobless claims fell to a pandemic-era low of 576,000.Also helping boost stocks was a strong retail sales report, which showed 10% growth as stimulus checks...
Stock markets opened to record levels Thursday morning following strong economic data on jobless claims and retail sales.The Dow Jones Industrial Average opened up 200 points, or 0.6 percent, and the S&P 500 jumped 29 points, or 0.7 percent, in...
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US jobless claims plunged to 576,000 last week, hitting their lowest level of the pandemic era.
Economists expected a reading of 700,000 claims. The previous count was revised higher to 769,000.
Continuing claims...
Thursday:• At 8:30 AM ET, The initial weekly unemployment claims report will be released. The consensus is for a decrease to 720 thousand from 744 thousand last week.• Also at 8:30 AM, Retail sales for March is scheduled to be released....
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Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR).
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Senate Democrats have unveiled a plan to boost unemployment benefits permanently.
The plan aims to replace 75% of a worker's lost paycheck.
It also sets up a $250 weekly benefit for gig...
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I first heard about the idea of a “reserve army of the unemployed” when I was in college. Advanced by Karl Marx in chapter 25 of Capital: Volume I, the theory is that it is in the interest of capitalists to maintain a relatively high rate of...
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During an interview on ABC's "The View," John Boehner called out Trump's post-presidential behavior.
"Here's a guy who's unemployed, has nothing else...
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Sen. Bernie Sanders, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, said Saturday that amid the immediate emergencies of climate change, Covid-19, mass unemployment, and homelessness, congressional Democrats cannot afford to dampen their infrastructure...
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If there's one thing you can count on from Fox "news," it's consistency, and despite the fact that we're still dealing with the coronavirus pandemic that they've done their damndest to make worse, they're still bashing people receiving unemployment