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In May, for the second month in a row, total employment in Canada retreated instead of stepping forward.

Global Stock Market Improvements Broadly Based, Finally On the world economic stage, matters have been taking a turn for the better once again. Table 1 shows that for the first time since before the pandemic, all the major stock markets globally registered year-over-year index gains at the end of March. For much of last year, only the North American indices managed to make headway. Presently, the increases are broadly based. Even the two exchanges with the poorest records, Hong Kong’s Hang Seng and London’s FTSE, are up by decent, if not outstanding amounts, +20.2% and +18.4% respectively...

ConstructConnect-OE’s GDP Projections on the Mark Government statistical agencies in both the U.S. and Canada have recently been putting the finishing touches to their estimates of gross domestic product growth (or, rather, lack thereof) last year. The most recent calculation of the U.S. GDP contraction in full year 2020 versus full year 2019 places it at -3.5%. During the quarters of last year, Q2 and Q3 displayed the wildest swings, -31.4% q/q annualized, followed by +33.4% also q/q annualized. The fourth quarter closed out the year with a gain of +4.3%, q/q annualized. ‘Annualized’ m...

"If Mr. Raffensberger didn't want to receive calls about the election, he shouldn't have run for secretary of state," a Trump spokesman says

Of all the poetic truths that the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke during his tragically short life, “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice” has got to be one of the best. It doesn’t give us an excuse to not work hard toward an improved world. Sorry, but everything won’t just get better on its own. Still, the quote widens our perspective, and provides hope that the fruits of our labor may finally be enjoyed tomorrow by our children. That arc is indeed very long. Sometimes it feels like we’ve had to work twice as hard, for twice as long, to only...