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The rollout of COVID-19 vaccines and vast sums of government aid will accelerate global economic growth to a record high this year in a powerful rebound from the pandemic recession, the International Monetary Fund says in its latest forecasts.
The 190-country lending agency said Tuesday that it expects the world economy to expand 6 per cent for 2021, up from the 5.5 per cent it had forecast in January. It would be the fastest expansion for the global economy in IMF records dating to 1980.
Limitless Venture Group, Inc.: LVGI subsidiary, Rokin Vapes, Announces Record Breaking Quarterly Sales and increased yearly projections
TULSA, OK / ACCESSWIRE / April 6, 2021 / Limitless Venture Group, Inc. (OTC PINK:LVGI):
Las Vegas based-Rokin-a leader in vaping technology and accessories-announced the best quarterly revenues in company history. The boost came largely from an agreement with a well-known cannabis industry company to purchase over $450,000 in cartridges annually from Rokin. With this new agreement and other new products coming to market this year Rokin raised its projected annual revenues to over 3.5 Million Dollars. This relationship has benefited both parties, said Daryl Bauer, CEO, Rokin. Our supplying cartridges to one of the major cannabis industry companies in the United States means big sales numbers for us. On their side, their customers get our high-quality cartridges filled with their top shelf product. We are all very pleased with the result.
Florida officials scramble to prevent catastrophic flood of contaminated water from reservoir
Paulina Firozi and Brittany Shammas, The Washington Post
April 4, 2021
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This aerial photo taken from an airplane shows a reservoir near the old Piney Point phosphate mine, Saturday, April 3, 2021 in Bradenton, Fla. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis declared a state of emergency Saturday after a significant leak at a large pond of wastewater threatened to flood roads and burst a system that stores polluted waters. The pond where the leak was discovered is at the old Piney Point phosphate mine, sitting in a stack of phosphogypsum, a waste product from manufacturing fertilizer that is radioactive. (Tiffany Tompkins/The Bradenton Herald via AP)Tiffany Tompkins/Associated Press
Dozens of America s biggest businesses paid no federal income tax - again
Christopher Ingraham, The Washington Post
April 5, 2021
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White House press secretary Jen Psaki points to a corporate tax rate chart on April 1, 2021 during a news briefing. Last year, 55 of the nation s largest corporations paid no federal income tax on more than $40 billion in profits, research shows. MUST CREIDT: Washington Post photo by Demetrius FreemanDemetrius Freeman/The Washington Post
Fifty-five of the nation s largest corporations paid no federal income tax on more than $40 billion in profits last year, according to an analysis by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a progressive think tank.