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frankly the headline number, matt, is a big one here. also it shows healthy growth in several sectors of the economy. >> yeah, jim. this is blockbuster growth. and it is pretty remarkable. this number is going to go a long way towards shutting down this idea that the u.s. economy is already in recession. to be adding more than half a million jobs, in a month, at this stage of the recovery, is pretty impressive. let me give you some context around this 528,000 job figure. this is twice as much as the consensus from economists. not only that, but it is 200,000 more than even the most o...

A major legislative win for democrats. senator kyrsten sinema indicated she's ready to vote yes on the party's sweeping economic package after party leaders agreed to change some new tax proposals. those changes include adding an excise tax, which leaves the remaining deficit figure at 300 billion. democrats say this is paid for with the arizona senator's support democrats will likely have the 50 votes the caucus needs to push the bill through their chamber. a couple of weeks ago, folks thought this was dead. sunlen serfaty is on capitol hill. so pending parliamentarian ruling, a little in the...

In red ink the next ten years. that didn't seem to be a problem with the moderate democrats. what did you make of that? >> that's right. remember even the cbo said that the budget figure, the deficit figure is a little less than the $367 billion. they said something that they couldn't quite score was the $200 billion in extra revenue the democrats would bring in through enhanced irs enforcement. that bring it down in the hundred billion dollars range. a lot of these blue dog democrats were content with this. with these statistics, democrats or republicans, anybody can take that cbo score and u...

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic surge in Pakistan, the July trade deficit touched USD 3.10 billion in the first month of the new financial year.

Nearly $1 trillion in 2019, up 26% in just the last year. the treasury department made the announcement on friday, that the deficit has now reached $984 billion, and that is the highest it has been since 2012, and now, during trump's time in office, the deficit is up nearly 50%, due in large part to the president's endorsement of big spending policies. the current state of the u.s. economy, largely copt dicts the president's campaign promise, to eliminate the federal date within eight years. treasury secretary steve mnuchin commented on the new deficit figure on friday saying quote, in order t...