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Amid Trucker Shortage, High Prices Loom

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Reported the Post : “Shipping costs have skyrocketed in the United States,” thus far into 2018, causing all sorts of other price tags to inflate. The shortage has also been making it tough to find available trucks (which need drivers, of course) and thus making speedy deliveries of goods (and, by extension, some services).

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Why Consumers Embrace Life Lived Digitally ? And 23 Pct Will Leave Offline Behind

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Goldman Sachs predicts that unemployment could reach 25 percent, and our own research shows that more than 35 percent of those who were working full- or part-time on March 6, no longer are. More than 36.5 million Americans have lost their jobs since the start of the pandemic and countless others have taken huge salary cuts.

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Millennials Are Facing Their Second ‘Once-in-a-Lifetime’ Financial Crash

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Half of recent graduates were unable to find work when they left school during the recession, and the millennials’ formal unemployment rate ranged up to as high as 20 percent or 30 percent. Many found themselves facing joblessness, low wages and stagnant earnings trajectories over the following decade.

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Russia in Ukraine: Let Loose the Dogs of War!

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While the contemporaneous numbers on the US economy on unemployment and production still look robust, worries about recession are rising, at least relative to where they were before the hostilities. I have seen no evidence, so far, that this is the case, but that may change.

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Russia in Ukraine: Let Loose the Dogs of War!

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While the contemporaneous numbers on the US economy on unemployment and production still look robust, worries about recession are rising, at least relative to where they were before the hostilities. to 25% for the Eurozone. I have seen no evidence, so far, that this is the case, but that may change.

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An Unevenly Happy Holiday For Retailers

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The stock market has more or less soared, the Consumer Confidence Index has hit its highest level in 17 years, unemployment is down, wages are starting to pick up and consumer credit looks to be on fairly solid ground. By many metrics, retailers should be feeling especially merry and bright about the 2017 holiday retail season.

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Transcript: Jenny Johnson, Franklin Templeton

Barry Ritholtz

You can put those tags in there but still take a professionally managed strategy… RITHOLTZ: Right. And I don’t think that, you know, I don’t think that the Fed is going to, as I said, I think the Fed is going to be very data-driven and right now, you know, unemployment is still, what is it, 3.7?