Big Changes for Black Friday…A new economy shows its power…and a new report shows the weakness and hope of religion in America.
Welcome to Black Friday – that day on the calendar when many retail outlets go into the black as the Christmas shopping season begins in earnest. Only this year – the lines outside stores where thousa...
27 Marras 20204min
The stock market rises and falls…unemployment claims point to an uncertain future…and a pastor from the Titanic shares life even as he loses his own.
Watching the stock market this week could easily give you economic whiplash. The week began with an announcement of progress toward a COVID-19 vaccine in clinical trials that sent the market soaring t...
20 Marras 20204min
The Mayflower Compact turns 400 and A Medal of Honor recipient is remembered on Veteran’s Day.
Four hundred years ago this week, on November 11, 1620, one hundred two men and women landed on the shores of the modern Cape Cod, MA. Most of them were part of a group of Protestant separatists who w...
13 Marras 20204min
A new look at the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet and the Electoral College comes under scrutiny.
One event takes place every Thursday afternoon around 4:30PM Eastern Time that few people ever notice. Every Thursday afternoon, the Federal Reserve quietly releases its balance sheet. Like any busine...
6 Marras 20204min
America’s Gross Domestic Product rebounds as the economy shows dramatic changes for the future…and a single sentence in a law few people even know about sets off a firestorm on Capitol Hill.
Economists breathed a sigh of relief when news of the nation’s Gross Domestic Product (or GDP) broke Thursday morning. GDP is measured as the total goods and services produced in a given period. Accor...
30 Loka 20204min
The US Department of Justice files a lawsuit against Google, and a post-election public policy prescription takes shape.
The United States Department of Justice joined 11 states in filing a lawsuit against Google this week. The charges state that the technology giant illegally used its market dominance to protect monopo...
23 Loka 20204min
The Big Four Banks open their books and reveal record profits…The energy sector is on the ropes as the oil and gas industry struggles to rebound in a new economy…and the national debt soars to record
JPMorgan Chase reported $9.4 billion in profits during the last quarter — 4% more than it made this time last year. Goldman Sachs made $3.6 billion, nearly double what it made in the same quarter a ye...
16 Loka 20204min
A small section of a big law causes big problems…and normal for small businesses in America has yet to materialize. Could large tech companies lead the way?
Earlier this year, the CEO’s from Facebook, Amazon, Google, and Apple testified before the US House of Representatives Antitrust Subcommittee and declared that their business models speak for themselv...
9 Loka 20204min
