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US Initial Jobless Claims Jump To 4-Month-Highs
US Initial Jobless Claims Jump To 4-Month-Highs
The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits for the first time jumped to 229k last week (more than the 220k expected) and the highest in four months...
Source: Bloomberg
Pennsylvania, California, and Minnesota are the states seeing the largest rise in claims last week...
Continuing jobless claims also rose last week to 1.795mm Americans - highest in two months, but still relatively low in the context of the last two years...
Source: Bloomberg
The bottom line is that while initial jobless claims are rising, they remain low...
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Judge Orders New York City To Scrap Notices For Mamdani's Tax On Second Homes
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Authored by Jill McLaughlin via The Epoch Times,
A Staten Island judge ruled Sept. 29 that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's administration mishandled the rollout of a pied-à-terre tax on second homes in July, ordering the city to scrap the notices and start over.
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In Charts: Communist Cuba's Lights Dim Amid US Oil Blockade
In Charts: Communist Cuba's Lights Dim Amid US Oil Blockade
Authored by Sylvia Xu, Andrew Moran via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
Blackouts, shortages, fuel rationing, and empty streets now define daily life in Cuba.
People wait to fill their water containers during a nationwide blackout in Havana on March 22, 2026. Cuban authorities scrambled on March 22 to restore power to the island after the second nationwide blackout in less than a week, as the grid struggles due to an aging infrastructure and a U.S. oil blockade. Yamil Lage/AFP via Getty...
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