Month: February 2022

In recent years, politicians on the far left have leaned on Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) to justify offering increasingly exorbitant spending proposals without plans to pay for them. Then roughly $6 trillion in deficit-financed stimulus approved by Congress in 2020 and 2021 provided policymakers a natural experiment to evaluate the claims proponents of MMT made.
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In this article KO A woman is drinking Coca-Cola near Playacar Beach in Playa del Carmen. Artur Widak | NurPhoto | Getty Images Coca-Cola is expected to report its fourth-quarter results before the bell on Thursday. Here’s what Wall Street analysts surveyed by Refinitiv are expecting: Earnings per share: 41 cents expected Revenue: $8.96 billion
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The Expedia homepage is displayed on laptop computers arranged for a photograph in Washington, D.C., U.S. Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines after the bell:  Expedia — Shares of the travel company jumped more than 5% in extended trading after a better-than-expected earnings report. Expedia posted adjusted earnings
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People shop at a Los Angeles retail outlet on Jan. 28, 2022. FREDERIC J. BROWN | AFP | Getty Images High inflation overshadowed a big increase in wages over the past year, amounting to a nearly 2% smaller paycheck for the average worker, according to federal data published Thursday. Employers have raised wages at about
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It’s no surprise that divorce rates spiked during the COVID-19 crisis. Being stuck at home with a spouse made many people reevaluate their relationships. Throw in the stress of raising children, financial uncertainty and the staggering number of deaths, and it is no wonder that even more people did not get divorced. The pandemic showed
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Discovering how much of a car is made in America is remarkably difficult. U.S. law requires that companies disclose information about where cars and their parts are made, but the facts they disclose can be confusing. For example, U.S. auto manufacturing gets lumped in with Canadian labor because the two countries are so deeply intertwined
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