The number of claims filed for new unemployment benefits shrank to 340,000 in the most recent week reported, down from the previous week’s revised total of 354,000, to reach the lowest number since March 2020, according to U.S. labor department figures. The number bested the 345,000 expected by economists surveyed by Bloomberg but remained well...
Tag: sept 14 2021
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FED TAPERING COULD START THIS YEAR, BOSTIC SAYS
Despite recent weakness in the U.S. job market and economic growth, “I still think that some time this year is going to be appropriate” for the U.S. Federal Reserve to begin winding down its $120-billion monthly bond purchases, Raphael Bostic, president of Atlanta’s Federal Reserve bank, said in an interview last week with The Wall...
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FED MUST SHIFT POLICY QUICKER, ECONOMISTS SAY
The U.S. Federal Reserve will be forced to taper off its $120-billion monthly bond purchases swiftly and raise interest rates next year to tame inflation, according to a majority of 49 academic economists polled by the Financial Times. Consumer demand, coupled with savings amassed during last year’s shutdown and global shortages and supply chain disruptions,...
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SWITZERLAND APPROVES DIGITAL STOCK EXCHANGE
Switzerland, traditionally the world’s banking center, last week authorized its SIX stock exchange to create the SIX Digital Exchange, or SDX. The exchange will offer a single, blockchain-based venue through which traders and investors can buy, sell, and store digital tokens under “the highest Swiss standards of oversight and regulation,” promised Finma, the Swiss financial...
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NEW LANCET ARTICLE DOUBTS CASE FOR BOOSTER SHOTS
The efficacy and effects of taking booster shots of COVID vaccines are unknown, and might be dangerous for some individuals who’ve taken the original shots. That’s according to an international paper published on 13 September 2021 in The Lancet medical journal. The paper, co-authored by a large international group of scientists and experts including some...
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BE AFRAID! DOUBLE WHAMMY COMING: GET THE JABS
Another week, another issue to be worried about. The Presstitute’s favored “health experts” continue the effort to promote fear and hysteria in the U.S., warning Friday that the country should prepare to deal with COVID-19 and a dangerous flu season because so many Americans have been working from home, according to a report. These officials...
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UK DITCHES VACCINE PASSPORTS
The United Kingdom’s health secretary announced Sunday that vaccine passports will not be required to enter crowded spaces just weeks after Prime Minister Boris Johnson declared that they would be required. “I’m pleased to say that we will not be going ahead with plans for vaccine passports,” Sajid Javid, the health official, told the BBC. He...
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COVID FEAR: WHEN WILL WORKERS RETURN?
The COVID War has played havoc with how companies have dealt with their workforces: shutting down offices, having employees work from home, keeping abreast of mask and vaccine requirements that seem to go back and forth, and changing the very nature of the relationship between the company and its employees. And everyone involved has eagerly...
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MAJORITY OF AMERICANS WOULD QUIT THEIR JOBS THAN TAKE THE JAB. WILL THEY BACK DOWN?
A Washington Post/ABC News poll released earlier this month found that nearly 70 percent of unvaccinated Americans would rather quit their jobs than submit to mandatory COVID-19 jabs. The poll questioned 1,066 unvaccinated individuals and found that 35 percent said they would pursue some kind of religious exemption while 42 percent said they would quit, according to RT.com....
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ISRAEL: BOOSTS COVID SHOTS FROM 2 TO 3
Go back to November/December 2020. All of the media and politicians were selling the lie that after two jabs the COVID vaccination had a 96 percent efficacy rate. Now, Israelis are learning that two COVID-19 vaccine jabs just don’t cut it anymore. Tel Aviv announced new restrictions for citizens who have not received a third...