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A first tranche of US$1,400 stimulus payments was processed yesterday, with additional large batches of payments to be sent via direct deposits or through the mail as checks or debit cards in coming weeks, the officials said. Reuters pic
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WASHINGTON, March 13 Americans will see the first direct deposits from President Joe Biden’s US$1.9 trillion (RM7.8 trillion) Covid-19 relief package hit their bank accounts this weekend, Treasury and Internal Revenue Service officials said yesterday.
A first tranche of US$1,400 stimulus payments was processed yesterday, with additional large batches of payments to be sent via direct deposits or through the mail as checks or debit cards in coming weeks, the officials said.
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A Congress riven along party lines approved a landmark $1.9-trillion COVID-19 relief bill Wednesday, as President Joe Biden and Democrats claimed a triumph on a bill that marshals the government’s spending might against twin pandemic and economic crises that have upended a nation.
The House gave final congressional approval to the sweeping package by a near party line 220-211 vote precisely seven weeks after Biden entered the White House and four days after the Senate passed the bill. Republicans in both chambers opposed the bill unanimously, characterizing it as bloated, crammed with liberal policies and heedless of signs the crises are easing.
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Global market pressures are an upshot of capital forcing a synchronicity of monetary normalisation across economies despite a sharp asynchronicity in their recoveries from Covid-19, against a backdrop of U.S. exceptionalism.
Global market pressures are an upshot of capital forcing a synchronicity of monetary normalisation across economies despite a sharp asynchronicity in their recoveries from Covid-19, against a backdrop of U.S. exceptionalism.
A Resurgence of U.S. Exceptionalism
First, the good news, but primarily from a U.S. perspective. With every passing tranche of stimulus, the cumulative fiscal response in the United States has grown from an axe to a sledge hammer to an 800-pound gorilla. Likely chastened from the experience of the global financial crisis, where both the quantum of the fiscal response and the speed of the rollback was retrospectively believed to be too conservative â leaving a dispro