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The leaders of the world's advanced economies will gather Friday on the Cornish coast for the first time since the global coronavirus pandemic began, welcoming President Joe Biden as a new member who arrived here intent on restoring traditional American alliances.
The self-styled investigative journalism outlet ProPublica recently published private IRS tax information presumably embarrassing private tax information for a host of ultrawealthy and famous Americans. I say “self-styled” because the organization claims a pretty lofty and self-important mission to use the “moral force” of journalism on behalf of the public interest against abuses of power. But does this apply to state power, such as when a federal agency employee illegally leaks sensitive material to media? And why is it presumed to be in the public’s interest to have rich billionaires pay more in taxes? Maybe we’d rather have them investing in their companies, or at least buying megayachts … Continue reading →
100 Days of Biden-Harris
Published June 10, 2021
Dr. Julianne Malveaux is an economist and author. She can be reached at juliannemalveaux.com (courtesy photo)
President Joe Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris are off to a running start. With more than a third of Americans fully vaccinated against the coronavirus, and now potentially more shots than arms, President Biden did what he said he’d do, thus jumpstarting our sluggish economy. Unemployment rates have lowered (although the racial unemployment rate gap remains – that won’t disappear in just 100 days). Economic growth at 6.4 percent is at a healthy high, proving that controlling corona is essential to economic health.
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President Biden and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson plan to sign a 21st century version of the historic Atlantic Charter when they meet for the first time on Thursday, an attempt to show their countries taking the lead on the biggest issues facing the world.
The document is a historical nod to the original Atlantic Charter signed in 1941 by former American President Franklin D. Roosevelt and former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. That document was a blueprint for emerging from World War II, and included a set of common principles, such as liberalized trade, labor standards, and commitments to restore self-government to countries that had been occupied.