Ketan B. Patel, policy advisor and head of financial markets risk analysis at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, has published an article in the Chicago Fed Letter, No. 492 titled“Why the Russian Invasion of Ukraine Moved Wheat Futures Prices More in the U.S. Than in Europe.” I love...
Borrowers must be U.S.-based. Cannot repurchase outstanding stock or pay dividends until one year after borrowing is repaid, or give raises to executives earning over $425,000 annually. Must maintain employment levels of March 24, 2020, “to the extent practicable” through Sept. 30, and not...
The article offers the author's opinions on a 2011 decision which the Australian federal government made to provide more than two billion dollars to deliver pay raises to 150,000 Australians who make up the lowest paid workers in the social and community services sector. A decision which the ...
Special Education.The agreement puts another $97 million into special education. The federal government had fallen short of promised funding levels for years, but one pot they do send to DPIfor disabled students is being passed through to a group that spends the money nearly exclusively on indoct...
I say: not so fast! We are still seeing some highly divergent outcomes. Take Denmark versus the UK over the past decade: Denmark = 13.9% real annualised return (GBP) UK = 2.3% real annualised return Those are two highly correlated markets but, even though they normally head in the sa...
If you want to make some money off high Treasury yields without directly buying notes, you can invest inexchange-traded fundsthat expose you to a range of Treasury securities. One advantage of investing in a Treasury ETF is that the fund may pay you more often than a Treasury note. ...
President Joe Biden ordered American flags to be flown at half-staff after the death of Britain's Queen Elizabeth. The order covers all federal buildings and grounds, military bases, naval vessels and government facilities abroad. For all the news that the Hudson Valley is sharing make sure to...
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That decision was backed by a federal judge in March. California and several environmental groups had sued over the Trump administration’s repeal, claiming it was unlawful. The main argument was that the federal government was in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act and the National ...
But Ramaswamy didn’t hold back on bashing “the deep state” and “the rot of the administrative state,” calling for the slashing of federal bureaucracy. Asked by POLITICO about how he delineates between lambasting Democrats and lambasting bureaucrats running the government, Ramaswamy said the ...