Posts with tag pandemic

ONE PLUS ONE DOES NOT EQUAL TWO - The Economy & Pandemic Send More Mixed Signals

Guest Writer, April 14 2021

On Monday, we learn that consumer sentiment is the highest since the end of the Great Recession. 

On Tuesday, we’re told that Americans’ fear of hunger, eviction and foreclosure are at record highs.

On Wednesday, a new analysis tells us that GDP is expected to grow by 6% in the 1st quarter of 2021.

On Thursday, an article shows that over 10 million people are still unemployed, with tens of thousands of restaurants and bars permanently closed.

And on Friday, one strategist suggests that the stock market will grow by another 30% this year.

Another one says that because stock prices are so overpriced relative to earnings the market is due for a major correction.

Quite a week, eh?

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PANDEMIC AID KEPT MILLIONS OF AMERICANS OUT OF POVERTY

Guest Writer, September 18 2021

Data released by the Census Bureau this week show how the government’s stimulus programs since last March kept millions of Americans out of poverty and preserved their access to health care. 

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