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Economic recession fears could be overblown

Placeholder while article actions load If there is a recession brewing in the United States, it would be news to Doug Johnson. The president of Marion Manufacturing Co. in Cheshire, Conn., Johnson is enjoying some of the best times in his company’s 76-year history. Sure, he’s heard the negative chatter about rising prices, sinking stocks […]

Silicon Valley lawmaker says stop the monkey business

State Assemblymember Alex Lee is the latest victim of negative campaign monkey business. Over the last few weeks, the Housing Providers for Responsible Solutions political action committee (PAC) has spent nearly $1 million on mailers, ads and texts opposing Lee—about a third of what the PAC has spent this year. The PAC is largely funded […]

The United States in Decline

Commentary  Last Summer I had concluded that something ‘fishy’ was going on in the world. Many of the responses to the Coronavirus pandemic made no sense, i.e., they were extremely destructive to economies and humans in general. Still, they were kept in place in many countries, while governments took an ever-increasing role in our economies. […]

Stocks edge higher ahead of jobs report, dollar steady

LONDON – European shares were mostly higher on Friday as investors await a key jobs report that will help gauge the strength of the U.S. economy and provide hints on the pace of the Federal Reserve’s policy tightening in the second half of the year. The pan-European STOXX 600 was up 0.16% after a strong […]

A Record 51% of US Small-Business Owners Had Vacancies in May

Placeholder while article actions load More than half of US small-business owners said they had open positions they could not fill in May, matching the record set in September and highlighting persistent hiring difficulties for firms in an extremely tight labor market. Fifty-one percent of firms had vacancies last month, up four percentage points from […]

Dollar wavers as traders await U.S. jobs update

In this photo illustration, US 100 dollar bills seen on an American flag. Igor Golovniov | SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images The dollar wobbled toward its first steady week in three on Friday as traders looked to U.S. jobs data later in the day for clues as to how far and fast the […]