Is It Safe to Work With Your Laptop on Your Lap?
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A year ago, the number of Americans working from home stood at just under five million. These days, it’s up around 70 million. That’s hard to process. We moved almost half the nation’s workforce home in a matter of months. And while some still treat it like a temporary measure water cooler chat now is just Zoom riffs on the question “When do you think we’re going back?” any shift
that seismic comes with a measure of permanence.
Stanford economist Nicholas Bloom expects the WFH era to outlive the reign of COVID-19. One survey, which he conducted with the Atlanta Federal Reserve and the University of Chicago, found that even after the pandemic dust settles, most top firms plan to keep employees home one to three days a week. That will change the world. Corporations will reconsider the value of a downtown high-rise. Workers without fast home internet will be left behi
January 25, 2021
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Before the coronavirus pandemic, President Donald Trump beat some experts’ economic expectations and pursued policies that kicked the American economy into gear.
During Trump’s four-year tenure as president, the American economy saw levels of growth and employment that beat the expectations of some economic experts in academia and government. Trump’s tax cuts, deregulation, and other economic policies helped business confidence soar, and led to larger disposable incomes for America’s poor and middle class before the coronavirus pandemic.
Based on then-candidate Trump’s policy proposals during the 2016 campaign, economic optimism quickly set in before Trump was inaugurated. The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) Business Confidence Index quickly saw business confidence in the United States shoot up to match Obama-era highs. The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) Small Business Optimism
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The Tuesday Market Minute
Global stocks inch higher in cautious trading, with markets tracking political drama in Washington and noting the ongoing rise in U.S. Treasury bond yields.
House Speak Nancy Pelosi will move forward which impeachment procedures Wednesday amid reports that VP Mike Pence will not invoke the 25th Amendment to remove President Trump from office.
Benchmark 10-year Treasury yields rise to a fresh 10-month high of 1.156% overnight, extending the bond market sell-off that has investors focused on global interest rates.
Bitcoin rebounds from Monday s bear market slump, adding 9% to trade past $36,000 as crypto volatility grips markets.
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