WHITE HOUSE WATCH COMMENTARY: SOME PEOPLE STILL DON’T BELIEVE THE VIRUS IS COMING
By Denny Gulino WASHINGTON (MaceNews) – The corona virus has an advantage evident in the Thursday evening Corona Virus Task Force briefing and during the day in several statehouses: It can spread faster than its reputation for being a sneaky killer of the unaware. President Trump tried to correct Task Force expert Deborah Birx, placing […]
NEW PHILADELPHIA FED SURVEY: ALMOST 25% OF DISTRICT COMPANIES SHUT DUE TO PANDEMIC
By Jon Hurdle PHILADELPHIA (MaceNews) – Almost a quarter of companies surveyed by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia temporarily shut down because of the coronavirus in the week ending March 29, the Philly Fed said Thursday in its first weekly survey https://www.philadelphiafed.org/-/media/research-and-data/regional-economy/covid-19-survey/2020/20200402-covid-19-bos-survey.pdf?la=en of how businesses in the Third District are responding to the pandemic. […]
DATA FLASH: US INITIAL CLAIMS SPIKE, BACKLOGS TO MAINTAIN FLOW FOR SEVERAL WEEKS
–Initial Claims Double from Previous Week to Record 6.648 Mln By Kevin Kastner WASHINGTON (MaceNews) – Continuing layoffs and administrative backlogs will lift initial claims to new record highs for the next several weeks before the flow of new filings finally slow. This week, the level of new claims was double last week’s, adding to […]