As professional workers in the US continue to work remotely due to the pandemic, many are discovering their HR and financial systems aren’t set up for this modern situation.
As Americans continue to spend more time indoors due to the pandemic, home buying continued to grow across the country in October.
Americans are taking on much more debt during the pandemic, but it’s not because they’re buying more stuff, it’s because they are acquiring more space.
Americans are tired of cooking at home and are now buying more pre-made foods to feed themselves during the ongoing pandemic.
Rubber prices are bouncing upwards. Higher rubber demand due to the need for rubber gloves worldwide and rising car sales during the Covid-19 pandemic is driving up prices.
Optimism about the US economy after the national election is distinctly split among political allegiances, driving performance in the stock market and future spending behaviors.
After living through the recent turbulent years in the US, you might think Americans would be yearning for escape into fictional worlds, nestled between the pages of novels selling like toilet paper in a pandemic.
Several companies that saw huge boosts to their stock prices during the pandemic sank deeply this morning after Pfizer announced its vaccine candidate was more than 90% effective at preventing Covid-19.
Major US stock market indexes rose throughout the week as election projections put Democratic candidate Joe Biden closer to a White House win.
While some of us were compulsively checking for updates on the US election, stock markets rose and fell, people found and lost jobs, and the coronavirus continued spreading. Here’s what else happened this week in the global economy.
Over the last decade, emerging market and low-income countries made significant strides in tackling inequality. Covid-19 may have reversed all those gains.
The yuan-dollar exchange rate swung wildly in the wake of the US presidential election, but ended on a 28-month high for the Chinese currency as Democratic candidate Joe Biden appeared to inch closer to victory.
Mail-in ballots are still being counted in several states, but a clear winner from Tuesday night’s US election is not red or blue but green.
The US economy may have grown a lot in the third quarter, recouping much of the decline from the early months of the pandemic, but personal income dropped, highlighting the challenging financial situation for millions of Americans ahead of the election on Tuesday.
Hopes of a new stimulus package before the US election are dashed, but with a third wave of Covid-19 infections spreading across the US, calls for more federal aid are only getting louder.
At the start of 2020, Nancy Yao Maasbach had a clear plan for how the Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) in New York City’s Chinatown would increase and diversify its revenue. There were several private event bookings, the annual fundraising gala, and gift shop sales through a partnership with a local retailer. Low ticket prices and a pay-what-you-can policy meant that admissions only contributed about 3% to the museum’s annual budget.
The coronavirus has set America’s Black labor force back more than 40 years.
US senator Joni Ernst failed a crucial question during a the 2020 Iowa Senate debate yesterday. When asked, the Republican couldn’t cite the break-even price of soybeans.
Donald Trump’s new Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett could give conservative justices enough votes to restrict abortion rights—a real possibility if she’s confirmed, given there are more than a dozen cases related to state-level abortion access only a step away from the court.
American women left the labor force in droves in September. The number of working women 20 years of age and older collapsed by 865,000 to 71.85 million, the steepest drop in three months during the Covid-19 pandemic, according to data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday.
After the first US presidential debate on Tuesday, searches for “immigrating to Canada” spiked online, just as they had the night of the 2016 election results. Now that the US president has tested positive for Covid-19, the turbulence and uncertainty could lead to even more intense interest in migrating north.
How does the Trump administration’s economic success compare to its predecessors? The charts below can give you a good idea. They’ll update automatically as new data are released—all the way through election day.
The wealthiest 10% of Americans did a lot better in the stock market from 2016 and 2019 than everybody else.
President Barack Obama’s new memoir A Promised Land is expected to sell so many copies that its publisher is printing one million of them in Germany and shipping them to the US.
