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The new year has ushered in a slew of minimum wage increases across the country. A total of 81 states and cities will be raising their minimum wages in 2022, and 44 cities will be increasing theirs to above $15 an hour. “These raises that took effect this week, combined with others scheduled for later this year, are the largest wave of minimum wage raises that we’ve seen,” Paul Sonn, state policy program director at the National Employment Law Project, said on Yahoo Finance Live (video… Source link

If the Federal Reserve is too heavy-handed with its interest rate hikes this year as a means to stomp out high rates of inflation, there is one critical risk that most investors probably aren’t factoring in.  Recession.  “That is the risk [of a recession in 2023],” said Mohamed El-Erian, Queens’ College, Cambridge University president and Allianz advisor, on Yahoo Finance Live. “We haven’t had a situation in the past in which the Fed has been really late [with rate hikes] and the Fed hasn’t… Source link

Stocks gained on Monday at the start of a holiday-shortened week, as traders considered the highly anticipated renomination of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell to the top role at the central bank.  The Dow added more than 250 points, or 0.8%, during morning trading. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq each also advanced. Investors kicked off the week on a strong note, with equity and bond-market trading set to close fully on Thursday and early on Friday for the Thanksgiving holiday.  President Joe… Source link

The Biden administration looks set to soon announce its pick for who will lead the nation’s economic steward: the Federal Reserve. The White House appears to be weighing two options: keeping Jerome Powell as Fed chair or replacing him with current Fed Governor Lael Brainard. Both reportedly met with President Joe Biden earlier in the month. Biden said on Tuesday, per the White House press pool, that a decision would come in about four days (or Saturday, November 20). Personnel could change… Source link

A logo is seen on the New York Google offices. New York City, U.S., July 29, 2021. REUTERS/Andrew Kell Google asked Waco, Texas judge to move case to California Federal Circuit has criticized Albright decisions to keep cases Albright moves case, but says Federal Circuit “muddled” law Nov 9 – A federal judge who has been under fire for resisting requests to transfer cases granted Google LLC’s bid to move a patent dispute over its Pixel smartphones from his Waco, Texas court to California. In a… Source link

The Federal Reserve on Wednesday said it would start slowing its pace of asset purchases, the first step in paring back its COVID-era easy money policies. “In light of the substantial further progress the economy has made toward the committee’s goals since last December, the Committee decided to begin reducing the monthly pace of its net asset purchases,” the policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee said in its updated policy statement Wednesday. Since the depths of the pandemic, the… Source link

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell is readying markets for an announcement of a slowdown in its asset purchases, suggesting that the U.S. economic recovery looks fit enough to sustain reduced Fed stimulus as soon as next month. Powell said the Fed is “on track” to begin slowing the pace of its U.S. Treasury and agency mortgage-backed securities purchases, which it is currently doing at a clip of about $120 billion a month. He added that if economic conditions progress as expected, the… Source link

The Federal Reserve on Thursday said it will tighten its ethics rules concerning personal finances among its most senior officials, the latest development in a trading scandal that has led to the resignation of two policymakers. The central bank said it has introduced a “broad set of new rules” that restricts any active trading and prohibits the purchase of any individual securities (i.e. stocks, bonds, or derivatives). The new restrictions effectively only allow purchases of diversified… Source link

The Department of Education (ED)’s office of Federal Student Aid (FSA), which oversees the government’s massive student loan portfolio, launched a new Office of Enforcement last week to overhaul oversight of postsecondary schools that participate in federal student loan programs. FSA Chief Operation Officer Richard Cordray, a former attorney general in Ohio who served as the director at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) under President Obama and wrote “Watchdog: How Protecting… Source link

The argument that natural immunity against COVID-19 is an alternative to vaccination is emerging as a potential legal challenge to federally mandated vaccination policies. Vaccination is already required for certain workers and some college students. The federal government, despite steeper legal hurdles to imposing vaccination, has also invoked the U.S. Department of Labor to mandate inoculation for health care workers and is expected to roll out a larger policy effectively mandating… Source link