Monthly Archives: March 2020
Short-Term Yields Go NEGATIVE in Scramble for Cash
(Wall Street Journal) Yields on the safest, short-term Treasurys settled into negative territory for the first time in more than four years, as investors...
House Set to Approve Senate’s $2.2 Trillion Rescue Package
(Liberty Headlines) House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., swung behind a bipartisan agreement to aid the U.S. economy in the midst of the Wuhan virus crisis,...
Hospitals Rush to Find Beds for Surge of Virus Patients
(Associated Press) With her due date fast approaching, Kelly McCarty packed a bag with nursing tops, a robe, slippers and granola bars. Last week's...
Record 3.3 Million Americans Apply for Unemployment Benefits
(Associated Press) Nearly 3.3 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week — almost five times the previous record set in 1982 — amid...
Dreaming of Lottery Riches? Virus Could Cut Jackpots
(Associated Press) Hoping to escape all the coronavirus-caused economic uncertainty by winning a giant lottery jackpot?
Think again. Those jackpots are going to shrink as...
Banks Try to Save Struggling Borrowers
(Associated Press) Tarred as villains during the 2008 financial meltdown, banks of all sizes are trying to help out Americans reeling from the economic...
White House, Congress Agree on $2 Trillion Virus Rescue Bill
(Liberty Headlines) The White House and Senate leaders of both major
political parties announced agreement early Wednesday on unprecedented
emergency legislation to rush sweeping aid...
Coronavirus Breaks Waffle House Index
(AL.com) Southerners have long relied on the Waffle House Index to understand the severity of a natural disaster. But the coronavirus pandemic has broken the metric...
Medical Glove Factories Cut Capacity Just When It’s Most Needed
(Associated Press) Malaysia's medical glove factories, which make most of the world's critical hand protection, are operating at half capacity just when they're most...
Stocks Surge as Congress Closes in on Nearly $2 Trillion Rescue Package
(Associated Press) Stocks on Wall Street joined a worldwide rally Tuesday as optimism rose, for one morning at least, that government officials and...
