The U.S. jobs report showed a decline of 20.5 million jobs in April while the unemployment rate rose to 14.7%. The “real” unemployment rate surged to 22.8%, some say more, which reflects the worst of the Great Depression. Many of those jobs are not returning for a long time; many others, never at all. The…
The first quarter of 2020 ended with a whimper — with the Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500 and Nasdaq posting their worst quarter in decades — as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to cause uncertainty and volatility across all major stock market indices. At the beginning of the quarter, we were still basking in a…
On Saturday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “AM Joy,” Representative Adam Smith (D-WA) said that the House is “absolutely” headed towards an impeachment vote by the end of the year. Host Joy Reid asked, “Do you have a sense that this impeachment inquiry will proceed to an actual impeachment vote by the end of the year?” Smith…
