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GlobeNewswire 8 Key Factors to Prepare Your House for Selling Sky Marketing tells 8 key points to keep in mind when selling your house. 8 Key Factors to Prepare Your House for Selling Sky Marketing tells 8 key points to keep in mind when selling your house. Islamabad, Pakistan, March 29, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Selling a house is not an easy task. There are many factors that clients value when deciding on a home or another: the price, the location, the size, etc. But one of the most important… Source link

The New York Times An Alliance of Autocracies? China Wants to Lead a New World Order. President Joe Biden wants to forge an “alliance of democracies.” China wants to make clear that it has alliances of its own. Only days after a rancorous encounter with U.S. officials in Alaska, China’s foreign minister joined his Russian counterpart last week to denounce Western meddling and sanctions. He then headed to the Middle East to visit traditional U.S. allies, including Saudi Arabia and Turkey,… Source link

Fourth stimulus check: Will Biden and Congress give you another payment? As millions of Americans still wait for their third stimulus check, speculation is heating up over the prospects for a fourth round of cash payments to help households and the U.S. economy recover from the pandemic. Online searches for the phrase “fourth stimulus check” have mushroomed over the past few weeks, according to Google Trends, and one economist says another payment is “certainly possible.” More than 60 members… Source link

The Biden administration is keen on rebuilding America’s infrastructure, including a multi-billion-dollar infrastructure project that the Trump administration blocked. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg recently told the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee that the administration would be prioritizing the Gateway Program, a project to upgrade the Northeast Corridor rail lines between New York and New Jersey. “This is a regional issue, but one of national significance… Source link

(Reuters) – Fourteen U.S. states including Louisiana and Wyoming filed lawsuits on Wednesday against President Joe Biden’s administration, challenging his pause on new oil and gas leasing on federal lands and waters. The legal actions, which seek to restore regular federal drilling auctions, came a day before the administration is set to launch a review of the oil and gas leasing program. Biden, a Democrat, in January signed an executive order putting on hold new leasing pending that review…. Source link

The New York Times U.S. Rushes to Expand Vaccine Eligibility in a ‘Race Against Time’ CHICAGO — Officials in at least 18 states have committed in recent days to opening coronavirus vaccine appointments to all adults in March or April, part of a fast-moving expansion as states race to meet President Joe Biden’s goal of universal eligibility by May 1. In Ohio, all adults will be allowed to seek shots starting March 29. In Connecticut, April 5. In Alaska and Mississippi, all adults are… Source link

Senate Democrats cited a provision in the new stimulus bill to again call on Biden to cancel $50,000 in student loan debt through an executive order — despite the president previously stating that he would not do so. “Student loan debt is crushing millions of Americans,” Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) told reporters on Monday. “President Biden has an opportunity to fix that with the stroke of a pen. This bill helps pave the way to cancel $50,000 in student loan debt.” The recently-passed… Source link

With a $1.9 trillion stimulus plan now under his belt, President Joe Biden and his administration are reportedly eyeing several tax hikes to pay for a significant new infrastructure bill and help coral the ballooning U.S. deficit. But getting tax hikes through even to support badly needed infrastructure investments will be a Herculean challenge, argues Stifel chief Washington policy strategist Brian Gardner. “The politics of a tax bill are likely to be more challenging than the politics of… Source link

Joe Biden didn’t campaign for president as a tax-cutter, but his first big legislative package is turning into a bigger tax cut than the landmark tax bill President Trump signed with great fanfare at the end of 2017. The $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan includes at least four provisions that will lower Americans’ 2021 tax bills by an average of $3,360, according to the Tax Policy Center. The 2017 Trump tax cuts only cut the average household’s tax bill by $1,600 per year. There’s… Source link

TipRanks Raymond James: These 3 Stocks Are Poised to Surge by at Least 50% In a recent note on the state of the stock markets, Raymond James equity strategist Tavis McCourt points out a series of policy factors that are playing a role in the current market volatility; the situation is more complex, perhaps, than most of us have been willing to admit. McCourt notes permutations of the SLR rule, political dynamics on the Senate Banking Committee, and the regulatory atmosphere towards potential… Source link