“McKinley sat on his front porch and didn’t campaign and was elected President. So it is possible for Biden to sit in his basement and not campaign and be elected President,” Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) tweeted recently. https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/always-trumpers-complain-as-presidents-missteps-threaten-senate-gop-majority/2020/06/30/9857f9a6-ba41-11ea-8cf5-9c1b8d7f84c6_story.html
America’s discord, the coming crisis of the 2020s, and the triumph beyond GEORGE FRIEDMAN How did the United States arrive at such a divided, tumultuous moment? In a nation that transform itself from weak colony to dominant force on the world stage, something unprecedented is …
Greenpeace achieved a definitive suspension against the Sener’s energy policy that stops renewable energy The environmental organization and Cemda used the facilities of the CFE’s Tula Thermoelectric Power Plant in their protection to show the contamination produced by generating electricity based on fuel oil The …
Capitalism needs an upgrade, says PayPal CEO Dan Schulman, and it starts with paying people enough to actually invest in their futures. He discusses why companies need to cultivate trust to recover and rebuild after the COVID-19 pandemic — and how we can use this …
EMPLOYER COSTS FOR EMPLOYEE COMPENSATION – MARCH 2020 Employer costs for employee compensation for civilian workers averaged $37.73 per hour worked in March 2020, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Wages and salaries cost employers $25.91 while benefit costs were $11.82. Total compensation …
World Economic Outlook, June 2020 Update Selected Economies Real GDP Growth (Percent change) Difference from April 2020 WEO Projections 1/ Projections …
More than one-third of America’s lowest-paid workers were laid off during the pandemic-induced recession, about four times the number of job losses experienced by the top earners, according to new research led by Federal Reserve Board economists. “We find that more than 35% of all workers in …
Global growth is projected at –4.9 percent in 2020, 1.9 percentage points below the April 2020 World Economic Outlook (WEO) forecast. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a more negative impact on activity in the first half of 2020 than anticipated, and the recovery is projected …
U.S. International Transactions, First Quarter 2020 and Annual UpdateCurrent Account Deficit Narrows by 0.1 Percent in First Quarter Current Account Balance, First Quarter The U.S. current account deficit, which reflects the combined balances on trade in goods and services and income flows between U.S. residents and residents …