President Donald Trump’s push for $2,000 COVID-19 relief checks now rests with the Senate after the House voted overwhelmingly to meet the president’s demand to increase the $600 stipends, but Republicans have shown little interest in boosting spending. The outcome is highly uncertain heading into Tuesday’s session. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has declined to […]
The made-for-TV battle arrived since the Democratic-controlled chamber trying to get a pro forma session scheduled in expectation of a sleek Washington landing for its enormous, yearlong legislative bundle, which folds with a $1.4 trillion governmentwide spending together with all an hard-fought COVID-19 bundle and heaps of unrelated although bipartisan bills. Rather, Thursday’s odd 12-minute […]
Joe Biden has won the major prize, along with the largest trophy: Pennsylvania and the presidency. The figures, declared Saturday morning, reveal that Biden will eke out a win at Pennsylvania by a 0.5percent margin, perhaps not far from the 0.7percent that indicated Donald Trump’s success four decades back. Really, the narrative from the Keystone […]
With the elections only weeks away, you also can expect to be inundated with forecasts about the way the winner will affect the economies and the market. It might be interesting to imagine the way the results of the election could affect your riches, but that really becomes a futile exercise when you understand just […]