https://freerepublic.com/tag/economu/ en-us Sat, 30 Jan 2021 13:27:12 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3930212/posts Over the past 10 months, the COVID-19 pandemic has severely hampered what was previously a period of record economic growth in the United States. Tens of millions of Americans lost their jobs as businesses were closed to slow the spread of the virus. And, while the economy continues to recover, unemployment is still nearly double what it was this time last year.Along with the economic impacts, COVID-19 has also slowed the overall pace of immigration into the United States. In January of 2020, the federal government declared the novel coronavirus to be a public health emergency and restricted travel from... Townhall.com https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3930212/posts#comment Sat, 30 Jan 2021 13:27:12 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2182298/posts There is no finer way to destroy bourgeois society, said Lenin, than to debauch the currency, a policy that he therefore favoured. A great deal of debauchery has gone on since Lenin’s day, not necessarily with revolutionary intentions. Whether it was at all avoidable, at least at an acceptable price, is a question I do not enter into; but that it has had an effect on people’s conduct, and even on their character, seems to me to be very likely. When I was growing up (and I am not yet an ancient man), many of the coins we used were... FrontPageMagazine https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2182298/posts#comment Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:25:39 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2053092/posts NEW YORK (Reuters) - Prices of U.S. single-family homes plunged at a record pace in May from a year earlier, with each of the 20 regions monitored showing annual declines for a second month, according to the Standard & Poor's/Case Shiller home price indexes reported on Tuesday. The S&P/Case Shiller composite index of 20 metropolitan areas fell 0.9 percent in May from April, bringing the measure down 15.8 percent from May 2007. Reuters https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2053092/posts#comment Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:15:01 GMT