When Americans started filing taxes last year, unemployment was at a 50-year low, the coronavirus pandemic’s official start was two months away and some of the earliest tax filers were powered by a sense of hyper-punctuality. This year’s tax season will start against a very different backdrop. Approximately 18 million …
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We’ve had over 100 new blog posts this year, and in those, we covered a lot. 2020 was a big deal with pandemic-related changes to the homebuying process, unheard of low mortgage interest rates, increased buying and selling activity as renters left big cities and settled elsewhere, and, of course, …
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MARKETWATCH FRONT PAGE Bulls are convinced the American consumer — and the stock market — are going to be fine, even if politicians fail to approve another round of fiscal stimulus before next month’s elections. But some economists see consumption taking a big hit after a robust third quarter. See …
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MARKETWATCH FRONT PAGE The one certainty about the outlook for companies in a COVID-19 world is that second-quarter earnings will be very bad, the worst in over 10 years. See full story. The Biden-Sanders climate-change policy pact: 8 key features Presidential candidate Joe Biden has advanced environmental policy recommendations that …
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