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Stock market today: Asian shares are mostly lower, with markets in Japan and US closed
Read full article: Stock market today: Asian shares are mostly lower, with markets in Japan and US closedShares are mostly lower in Asia after a modest advance on Wall Street that kept the market on track for a fourth straight weekly gain.
President Biden focuses on factory jobs in Wisconsin, ignoring latest Trump indictment
Read full article: President Biden focuses on factory jobs in Wisconsin, ignoring latest Trump indictmentPresident Joe Biden stopped in the battleground state of Wisconsin to discuss how economic policies he calls “Bidenomics” are boosting the economy.
Basement talk, virtual handshake led to Manchin-Schumer deal
Read full article: Basement talk, virtual handshake led to Manchin-Schumer dealSenate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin had been wrestling for more than a year over President Joe Biden’s big rebuilding America package.
Rejected by courts, retirees take last shot to save pensions
Read full article: Rejected by courts, retirees take last shot to save pensionsWhen General Motors went through the biggest industrial bankruptcy proceedings in history, 20,000 retirees from GM's Delphi Corp. subsidiary saw their retirement savings slashed.
Fed’s aggressive rate hikes raise likelihood of a recession
Read full article: Fed’s aggressive rate hikes raise likelihood of a recessionFederal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has pledged to do whatever it takes to curb inflation, now raging at a four-decade high and defying the Fed’s efforts so far to tame it.
Treasury Secretary Yellen expects inflation to 'remain high'
Read full article: Treasury Secretary Yellen expects inflation to 'remain high'Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has acknowledged that she and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell “could have used a better word” than transitory when describing the expected run of inflation in the U.S. economy.
Biden's challenge: Inflation overshadows robust job gains
Read full article: Biden's challenge: Inflation overshadows robust job gainsPresident Joe Biden came before the television cameras Friday to celebrate yet another month of healthy job growth and low unemployment and the fastest pace of hiring in four decades under his watch.
Yellen: Biden's phased-in spending plan won't fuel inflation
Read full article: Yellen: Biden's phased-in spending plan won't fuel inflationTreasury Secretary Janet Yellen says President Joe Biden’s massive proposed spending on infrastructure, families and education won’t fuel inflation because the plans would be phased in gradually over 10 years.
Even as economy heats up, Fed to stick with near-zero rates
Read full article: Even as economy heats up, Fed to stick with near-zero ratesHiring is accelerating as Americans increasingly venture out to shop, eat at restaurants, and travel, and inflation is even picking up after lying dormant for years.
Biden's 'jobs Cabinet' to sell infrastructure as GOP resists
Read full article: Biden's 'jobs Cabinet' to sell infrastructure as GOP resistsPresident Joe Biden says Republicans have talked for years about the need to rebuild the nation’s infrastructure and predicts GOP lawmakers will face pressure from their supporters if they don’t act.
Yellen's encore: Lending economic heft to Biden's virus plan
Read full article: Yellen's encore: Lending economic heft to Biden's virus plan“Yellen is uniquely poised," said Brian Deese, director of Biden’s National Economic Council. "She has as much experience and expertise of addressing the challenges of our time as any living economic policymaker today. AdYellen juggled parenting with her work as a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, in the 1980s, helping to build her son’s pinewood derby car as a colleague fed economic data into a computer. It’s an argument cultivated from years of research that fully blossomed during Yellen’s time as Fed chair. She said Yellen values differences of opinion and diversity because that helps her get a fuller sense of the economy.
Yellen: Biden's plan could restore full employment by 2022
Read full article: Yellen: Biden's plan could restore full employment by 2022(AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)WASHINGTON – Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Sunday the country was still in a “deep hole” with millions of lost jobs but that President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion relief plan could generate enough growth to restore full employment by next year. Summers also contended that Biden’s plan would make less money available for other initiatives such as improving the nation’s infrastructure. The proposal will be part of the COVID-19 relief bill they are writing that is expected to largely follow Biden’s plan. Under the House Democrats’ plan, those amounts would begin to phase out for individual parents earning $75,000 yearly and couples making $150,000. She said if Biden’s relief package is approved, the country could get back to full employment by next year.
Gary Oldman on finding the frequency of 'Mank'
Read full article: Gary Oldman on finding the frequency of 'Mank'But Fincher cast Oldman’s manager, Douglas Urbanski (as Larry Summers in ’The Social Network”), before he called up Oldman about another role. Orson Welles was a genius and if everybody doesn’t know that, I don’t know what to say.”In crafting the portrait of Mankiewicz, Fincher wanted Oldman as himself. Oldman was himself once an alcoholic and, like Mank, prone to audacious gambles. Back when he was drinking, Oldman chose between two simultaneous offers — “Waterworld” and “The Scarlet Letter” — with a coin flip. In a court filing in 2001, Fiorentino alleged that Oldman hit her with a telephone, an allegation that Oldman strongly denies.