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The economic system is broken for most of us – News – Canton Daily Ledger – Canton, IL
The stock market surged last week, with the Nasdaq and S&P 500 both hitting record highs and the Dow Jones Industrial Average still exceeding 29,000 per month after breaking that level for the first time. By a river, a scorpion that can’t swim asks a frog to carry it across a river on the frog’s …
Amidst all the good economic news this week, beware of this ‘time bomb’
Listening to President Donald Trump’s list of his economic accomplishments, both real and exaggerated, in this week’s State of the Union address reminded those of a certain age of Archie’s boasting Bunker that the United States has “the grossest national product”. Beyond the low unemployment rate and record stock prices, one data point was notable …