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Initial Claims Rise But The Outlook For Jobs Is Improving

Posted on April 5, 2021 by TeamIcarus | 0 Comments

Initial claims for regular state unemployment insurance totaled 719,000 for the week ending March 27, up 61,000 from the previous week’s downwardly revised tally of 658,000, the lowest of the…

Gold Rises Over 1% As Dollar, Yields Retreat

Posted on April 4, 2021 by TeamIcarus | 0 Comments

A worker tends to gold bars at a precious metals plant. Andrew Rudakov | Bloomberg | Getty Images

The Fed And Markets Use Different Crystal Balls For The Economy

Posted on March 19, 2021 by TeamIcarus | 0 Comments

Financial markets were comforted by Fed chairman Jerome Powell’s comments that it was not yet time to even consider pulling back policy support.CREDIT:AP

The Benefit of Hypergrowth Investing

Posted on February 16, 2021 by TeamIcarus | 0 Comments

The tension between high stock market valuations and inflation … how hypergrowth stocks could be the answer … how to track hypergrowth trends for free

A Pro-UBI Talking Point Debunked

Posted on February 6, 2021 by TeamIcarus | 0 Comments

Back in 2013, the Washington Post ran the headline: “Thinking Utopian: How About a Universal Basic Income [UBI]?” The article was written as a thought experiment; it concluded that while…

No, Lockdowns Do Not Foster Creative Destruction

Posted on February 5, 2021 by TeamIcarus | 0 Comments

The field of economics is something of a paradox. Decried as thorny and opaque, the least informed person still feels qualified not only to weigh in on, but to correct…

How Full Employment Became Washington’s Creed

Posted on January 20, 2021 by TeamIcarus | 0 Comments

Policymakers are eager to return to the period of low unemployment that preceded the pandemic and are less concerned than in previous eras about sparking inflation and taking on debt.

Weeks of Weak Claims On Growing Claims of Weeks of Weak Demand

Posted on November 15, 2020 by TeamIcarus | 0 Comments

At some point, the thing actually has to happen. You can only keep talking about the thing for so long before people start to get wise. And most people, especially…

Unemployment is World’s Biggest Risk, Business Leaders Say

Posted on October 9, 2020 by TeamIcarus | 0 Comments

LONDON (Reuters) - Unemployment is seen as the biggest worry over the next 10 years for business executives around the world, closely followed by concern about the spread of infectious…

U.S. Economy will ‘Go Backwards’ Without $600 Weekly Unemployment Benefit

Posted on July 29, 2020 by TeamIcarus | 0 Comments

Billionaire Tilman Fertitta told CNBC on Tuesday that ending the $600-per-week federal unemployment supplement will impair the U.S. economy’s recovery from coronavirus-induced damage.