by Daniel White | Dec 21, 2020 | Economy
December 21, 2020 According to Yelp’s most recent economic impact report, more than 163,000 U.S. businesses have shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic this year. That’s bad, but it gets worse. Yelp also reports 98,000, or 60 percent, of those businesses are gone...
by Daniel White | Dec 14, 2020 | Economy
December 14, 2020 There is a budding issue in local and state governments. See, the economic balance that we saw in the summer seems to have run its course. I think we know why – the growth was mostly artificial, generated by money consumers received from government...
by Daniel White | Dec 7, 2020 | Economy
December 7, 2020 Joe Biden is going to be the president, and a lot of what I read indicates he could well enter office as the weakest president since Jimmy Carter. Now, presuming the Senate stays Republican (which is not a given because of two January runoff races in...
by Daniel White | Nov 23, 2020 | Economy
November 23, 2020 COVID-19 unleashed a tsunami of destruction. Whole industries are transforming, and some are being wiped out altogether. The industry that’s perhaps been damaged most by the pandemic is the restaurant business. It’s been gutted. According to Yelp and...
by Daniel White | Nov 9, 2020 | Economy
November 9, 2020 There are important updates to Social Security and Medicare on the way – some good, some bad. Here’s a quick breakdown of what’s changing. In welcome news, Social Security checks will rise 1.3 percent in 2021. The cost of living adjustment (COLA) will...
by Daniel White | Sep 9, 2020 | Economy
September 9, 2019 President Trump and the Democrats reached a budget deal, avoiding yet another round of debt ceiling drama. The last few years we’ve seen politicians go back-and-forth on the budget, only to “resolve” the situation by shutting down the...
