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Weekly Initial Claims for Unemployment Benefits Ticked Up but Remain Very Low – AIER

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The number of ongoing claims for state unemployment programs totaled 1.960 million for the week ending November 27, a rise of 403,147 from the prior week (see second chart). The gain was concentrated in the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program and the Pandemic Emergency UC program, which accounted for 93,338 of the 107,674.

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China: House Divided | AIER

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There have been claims that China’s enormous economic growth and widely shared prosperity are the result of turning to capitalism. I have come to think of it in terms of concentric circles, each smaller than, and fully contained in, the larger category. I think this is not true; China is not capitalist.

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Promises Not Kept – AIER

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As is always the case, a certain number of ineligible companies— many of them publicly traded — got large loans approved before many other firms could even get access to a bank in order to apply. Adam Millsap makes that same point about state and local economic development programs for instance. Source link.

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Re-Examining The Role Of Correspondent Banking

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The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) said in a recent report that the number of correspondent banks — where banks and financial institutions (and domestic payment systems) are linked together — slipped 3 percent in 2019 vs. 2018 and declined a significant 22 percent from 2011 to 2019. A Reduction In The Number Of Corridors .

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Europe’s Next Refugee Crisis – WSJ

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Poland clashed with the EU over a deal that would spread arrivals, who largely came from the Middle East and Africa and had concentrated in Greece and Italy, around the Continent. Estimates vary and are complicated by the number of seasonal workers, but more than a million Ukrainians already are in the country of 38 million.

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Why The Coronavirus May Dwarf SARS’ $40B Economic Toll

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McKibbin, who are affiliated with Korea University and The Australian National University, said “just calculating the number of canceled tourist trips, declines in retail trade and similar factors is not enough to get the full impact of SARS” because of the linkages within and between economies and sectors. percent to 4.4 Initial Impact.

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Barry Ritholtz

Wall Street Journal ) 200 Years of Market Concentration : Is this trend an anomaly or part of an ongoing pattern in the stock market? To answer this question, we have collected data on the concentration of the US stock market over the past 235 years, from 1790 until the present. Its made by a company youve never heard of.