Gone is former President
Donald Trump s saber-rattling against China. In its place is a policy that will be competitive where it should be, collaborative where it can be but only adversarial where it must be.
Where Trump and his Treasury leader, Steven Mnuchin, used their pulpit not only to pick fights with traditional adversaries like China but also traditional allies such as Germany, Yellen countered with America first must never mean America alone.
And while the past administration paid generally little heed to issues like diversity and climate change, Yellen said both are at the center of not only the U.S. social agenda but also its economic one.
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The volume of turnover in retail trade (except for trade in motor vehicles and motorcycles) increased, as unadjusted series, by 1.5% in the first two of the current year, compared to January 1 - February 29, 2020, and it decreased by 1.9% as workday and seasonally adjusted series, according to data published on Monday by the National Institute of Statistics (INS).
Thus, the volume of turnover in retail trade (except for trade in motor vehicles and motorcycles), as unadjusted series, increased overall by 1.5% over the interval January 1 - February 28, 2021, Y-o-Y, due to the increase in sales of non-food products (+ 6.3%) and sales of food, beverages and tobacco (+ 1.4%). The retail sale of automotive fuel in specialised stores decreased by 7.5%.
Thatâs where vaccinations are now making a difference.
While La Casa Pizzaria in Omaha has done pretty healthy takeout business during the pandemic, General Manager Nicole Jesse has recently seen a noticeable uptick in dine-in customers.
âA lot of the people we are seeing now are some of our older customers,â Jesse said. âThey are coming in and telling us, âWe got vaccinated.â â
Ricketts said heâs optimistic that as vaccination numbers continue to rise, the economy will, too.
âUltimately, the way you work your way out of this pandemic is getting everyone vaccinated,â he said.
The Nebraska economy was humming along quite nicely entering March last year. The biggest obstacle was not unemployment but a shortage of skilled workers needed to fuel job growth.
Chiwetel Ejiofor was too scared to speak to his idol David Bowie when they unexpectedly were in the same shop.
The 43-year-old actor had never been more star-struck than when he got close to the âZiggy Stardustâ hitmaker â who died of cancer in 2016 â but he couldnât bear the idea of how âmortifyingâ it would be to look back on the encounter if he said something silly.
He told Empire magazine: âI was probably most star-struck when I was living in New York, maybe 16 years ago. On Spring Street and Lafayette, thereâs a magazine shop. Itâs not there anymore.