A volatile President Trump era and fallout from the recent presidential election has pushed Americans toward disillusionment with the U.S. political system, according to political scientist Ian Bremmer. “When I think about the future of my country and what that country means, the average American no longer believes that the institutions actually work for them,” Bremmer, a geopolitical experts and founder of the Eurasia Group, said in an interview on Yahoo Finance Live (video above). “So… Source link
Read More »Another 712,000 Americans filed new unemployment claims last week
TipRanks 3 Monster Growth Stocks That Are Still in the Buy Zone With markets generally rising for now – the S&P is up over 9% in the past 30 days – investors are taking a close look at growth stocks. These are the equities that show long-term appreciation, with returns to investors based mainly on share price gains. It’s an obvious move to make, when the mood on the Street is bullish.The professional analyst corps understand this, and they have been scouring the market for stocks that… Source link
Read More »Another 742,000 Americans filed new unemployment claims last week
TipRanks Shift Into 5G Could Fuel a Rally in These 3 Stocks The tech world is in the midst of a shake-up. Since the end of 2017, the new 5G wireless technology has been moving forward, bringing with it a combination of faster connection speeds and lower latency, and the promise of great changes in how we connect to the online world. New technologies – connected automobiles and agile IoT come to mind – would not be possible without 5G.Investment research firm HSBC Global, in a recent report… Source link
Read More »Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan talks about the ‘exhausted majority’ of Americans who are ‘fed up with politics’ [Video]
While speaking at the Ronald Reagan Institute on Monday, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan discussed what he called the “exhausted majority” of Americans who he said are “fed up with politics” and feel ignored by politicians in Washington. Video Transcript LARRY HOGAN: A large majority of Americans are thoroughly convinced that our political system is fundamentally broken, that we, as a people, are tragically divided, and that Washington is completely dysfunctional. Most of us are sick and… Source link
Read More »Another 709,000 Americans filed new unemployment claims last week
Another 709,000 Americans filed for first-time unemployment benefits last week, marking another modest improvement in the number of those newly unemployed even as coronavirus cases in the U.S. continue to creep higher. The Department of Labor released its weekly report on new jobless claims Thursday morning at 8:30 a.m. ET. Here were the main results from the report, compared to consensus estimates compiled by Bloomberg: The Labor Department report showed an eleventh straight week that new… Source link
Read More »Nearly 80% of Americans say Biden won White House, ignoring Trump’s refusal to concede: Reuters/Ipsos poll
By Chris Kahn NEW YORK (Reuters) – Nearly 80% of Americans, including more than half of Republicans, recognize President-elect Joe Biden as the winner of the Nov. 3 election after most media organizations called the race for the Democrat based on his leads in critical battleground states, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll. Biden – who needed 270 Electoral College votes to win – had 279 of those votes to 214 for Trump with results in three states not yet complete, according to Edison Research…. Source link
Read More »Another 751,000 Americans filed new unemployment claims last week
U.S. states saw another 751,000 Americans file first-time unemployment benefits last week, as still-elevated coronavirus case counts threaten to weigh on the pace of recovery in the labor market. The Department of Labor released its weekly report on new jobless claims Thursday morning at 8:30 a.m. ET. Here were the main results from the report, compared to consensus estimates compiled by Bloomberg: The Labor Department’s latest report reflected the tenth straight week that new jobless claims… Source link
Read More »Election 2020: Google searches reveal Americans’ top concerns
The 2020 election is different from those that have come before in many ways, including the ways in which we’re Googling. Waves of Interest, a new collaboration between Google News Initiative and information design firm Truth & Beauty, looks at how Americans’ internet searches have changed over the course of five presidential election years, from 2004 to 2020. The series of interactive data visualizations looks at the relative popularity of a range of popular political concepts,… Source link
Read More »Despite questions about the ‘laptop from hell,’ most Americans think the Trumps are more ‘corrupt’ than the Bidens
In the waning days of the 2020 campaign, President Trump has intensified his accusations of (mostly unspecified) wrongdoing by his Democratic rival, Joe Biden, based on emails supposedly found on a laptop formerly owned by Biden’s son Hunter. But a plurality of voters aren’t buying it — and a majority believe Trump and his family are more “corrupt” than the Bidens, according to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll. “They had the laptop, I call it the laptop from hell, and based on that… Source link
Read More »Despite questions about the ‘laptop from hell,’ most Americans think the Trumps are more ‘corrupt’ than the Bidens
In the waning days of the 2020 campaign, President Trump has intensified his accusations of (mostly unspecified) wrongdoing by his Democratic rival, Joe Biden, based on emails supposedly found on a laptop formerly owned by Biden’s son Hunter. But a plurality of voters aren’t buying it — and a majority believe Trump and his family are more “corrupt” than the Bidens, according to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll. “They had the laptop, I call it the laptop from hell, and based on that… Source link
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