March 18, 2024

Breitbart Business Digest: Declining Job Openings May Help Bring Down Inflation

A Soothing JOLTS The doves got everything they could have wished for out of the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) on Tuesday. Job openings fell to 8.827 million in the August report, which estimates vacancies as of the last business day of July. This is the first time openings have fallen below 9

Most US adults are declining COVID boosters as CDC warns of health risks: ‘Relatively little protection’

Adults who aren’t current on their COVID-19 vaccine booster doses may have “relatively little remaining protection” against hospitalization compared to those who haven’t been vaccinated at all, suggests a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The study spanned multiple states and examined more than 85,000 hospitalizations of people with “COVID-like […]

Fmr. Obama Treasury Counselor Rattner: We’ll Have ‘Higher Rates for the Foreseeable Future,’ Inflation Isn’t Declining Due to Stimulus

On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Steve Rattner, who served as counselor to the Treasury Secretary in the Obama administration, predicted higher interest rates “for the foreseeable future,” and said that inflation isn’t declining in part due to people still spending the large amounts of stimulus they got during the pandemic. Rattner also stated that

Study: School Shootings Are Not On The Rise, Incidents Involving Students Declining Since 1990s.

The shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida has triggered a new call for gun control. On February 14, Nikolas Cruz shot and killed 17 people. It’s tragic. It shouldn’t happen. And it shouldn’t have happened; state, federal, and local officials had multiple opportunities to stop Cruz from committing this shooting. Yet, […]

HUNGER In Venezuela – Declining Economic Freedom Has Consequences

TORONTO – The tragedy unfolding in Venezuela is a result of eroding economic freedom in that country over the past 40 years, according to a new publication released today by the Fraser Institute, an independent, non-partisan Canadian public policy think-tank. “When governments reduce economic freedom, as they’ve done in Venezuela, first under crony capitalism and […]

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