Money & The Economy
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Is The Shift To Renewable Energy Propelling Us Into An Energy Crisis?
Rapidly increasing energy costs across Europe and Asia have prompted warnings of an impending U.S. crisis and calls for policy…
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Former Fed President: Government Snooping on Bank Transactions Over $600 a “Massive Search Without a Search Warrant”
A proposal from the Biden Administration that would require banks to monitor personal accounts and report all financial transactions over…
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GM Wants 1 Million Self Driving Cars On The Road Within The Next Decade
GM’s majority-owned autonomous vehicle subsidiary, Cruise, announced Wednesday that it wants 1 million self-driving cars on the road by 2030.…
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Heating Bills to Skyrocket this Winter
By the time winter refill orders hit the peak, prices could be triple what they were under the last administration
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Biden Plan Would Sabotage US Economic Competitiveness in One Huge Way, Analysis Finds
Image Credit: iStockPhoto.com, Lazy_Bear | US Secretary of Defense via Flickr | CC BY-SA 2.0 | (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/) resident Biden has…
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‘Unprecedented’ Shortages: Builders Running Out of Construction Materials, Forced To Find Alternatives
Contractors and builders are being forced to turn to alternative sources for key construction materials due to widespread supply shortages,…
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Private Job Hirings Beat Expectations Amid COVID-19 Scares And Slow Economic Growth
Private companies added 568,000 jobs in September, exceeding expectations as the country faced growing numbers of delta variant cases and…
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#MintTheCoin: Economist Explains Problem With Just Minting $1 Trillion Coin to Pay the Government’s Bills
Here's why the fantastical notion of a trillion-dollar coin appearing out of thin air to pay the bills is so…
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Target To Pay Holiday Employees $2 More An Hour In Effort To Retain Workers
Target announced Tuesday that it would pay employees an additional $2 an hour during the peak time of the holiday…
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Oil Prices Skyrocket To Seven-Year High After OPEC Announces Gradual Output Boost
The price of oil surged Monday after the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) doubled down on its plans…
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Inflation Hits Another Multi-Decade High After Fed Boosts Projection
A key economic index used by the Federal Reserve to measure inflation surged to another 30-year high in August as…
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Biden Effect: Oil Companies Fear Vaccine Mandate Will Further Disrupt Business and the Economy
Fracking executives expressed concern that President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate will set the industry back, making hiring even tougher,…
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Jobless Claims Jump To 362,000, Unexpectedly Increase Again
The number of Americans filing new unemployment claims increased to 362,000 last week as the economy struggles to recover from…
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Bidinflation : Surging Oil Prices Will Fuel Further Inflation, Analysts Say
Oil prices have surged around the world in recent weeks, which will lead to even higher inflation, according to industry…
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Bidenflation Hits Dollar Tree
President Biden’s policies have exacerbated inflationary pressures to a level that even the lowest of discount retailers is getting affected.…
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