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5 takeaways from NY Times report on Trump's tax returns

WASHINGTON (AP) — A New York Times report that President Donald Trump paid just $750 in federal income tax the year he entered the White House — and, thanks to colossal losses, no income tax at all in 11 of the 18 years that the Times reviewed — served to …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 5 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO

5 takeaways from NY Times report on Trump's tax returns

WASHINGTON (AP) — A New York Times report that President Donald Trump paid just $750 in federal income tax the year he entered the White House — and, thanks to colossal losses, no income tax at all in 11 of the 18 years that the Times reviewed — served to …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 5 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO

Fed's Main Street pandemic support program off to slow start

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve says that its Main Street Lending Program designed to help small and medium-sized companies get through the pandemic has managed to make just eight loans in its first month of operations.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 5 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO

Fed's Main Street pandemic support program off to slow start

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve says that its Main Street Lending Program designed to help small and medium-sized companies get through the pandemic has managed to make just eight loans in its first month of operations.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 5 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO

Record economic plunge, bleak jobs numbers reveal virus toll

WASHINGTON (AP) — The coronavirus pandemic sent the U.S. economy plunging by a record-shattering 32.9% annual rate last quarter and is still inflicting damage across the country, squeezing already struggling businesses and forcing a wave of layoffs that shows no sign of abating.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 5 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO

Record economic plunge, bleak jobs numbers reveal virus toll

WASHINGTON (AP) — The coronavirus pandemic sent the U.S. economy plunging by a record-shattering 32.9% annual rate last quarter and is still inflicting damage across the country, squeezing already struggling businesses and forcing a wave of layoffs that shows no sign of abating.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 5 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO

Bleak economic data point to struggles ahead for US economy

WASHINGTON (AP) — A grim picture emerged Thursday of a U.S. economy that endured a record-shattering plunge last quarter and is now struggling to rebound as the coronavirus keeps forcing more layoffs.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 5 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO

Rising coronavirus infections threaten US economic recovery

BALTIMORE (AP) — Rising coronavirus infections across dozens of states are threatening the U.S. economic recovery, forcing businesses and consumers to freeze spending and keeping the unemployment rate stubbornly high.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 5 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO

Rising coronavirus infections threaten US economic recovery

BALTIMORE (AP) — Rising coronavirus infections across dozens of states are threatening the U.S. economic recovery, forcing businesses and consumers to freeze spending and keeping the unemployment rate stubbornly high.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 5 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO

IMF: Global economy will suffer worst year since Depression

WASHINGTON (AP) — Beaten down by the coronavirus outbreak, the world economy in 2020 will suffer its worst year since the Great Depression of the 1930s, the International Monetary Fund says in its latest forecast.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 5 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO

IMF: Global economy will suffer worst year since Depression

WASHINGTON (AP) — Beaten down by the coronavirus outbreak, the world economy in 2020 will suffer its worst year since the Great Depression of the 1930s, the International Monetary Fund says in its latest forecast.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 5 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO

Coronavirus poses tough challenge for economic policymakers

WASHINGTON (AP) — The fast-moving coronavirus isn’t just confounding health officials. It’s also bedeviling policymakers and central bankers who are struggling to assess the economic damage from an outbreak that's reached 37 countries and territories, infected 80,000 people and killed 2,700 worldwide.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 5 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO

Coronavirus poses tough challenge for economic policymakers

WASHINGTON (AP) — The fast-moving coronavirus isn’t just confounding health officials. It’s also bedeviling policymakers and central bankers who are struggling to assess the economic damage from an outbreak that's reached 37 countries and territories, infected 80,000 people and killed 2,700 worldwide.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 5 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO

Coronavirus poses tough challenge for economic policymakers

WASHINGTON (AP) — The fast-moving coronavirus isn’t just confounding health officials. It’s also bedeviling policymakers and central bankers who are struggling to assess the economic damage from an outbreak that's reached 37 countries and territories, infected 80,000 people and killed 2,700 worldwide.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 5 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO

2014 Fed conundrum: How to alert markets rates were going up

WASHINGTON (AP) — In her first year as Federal Reserve chair, Janet Yellen presided over a policy panel divided over the issue of how much longer the central bank could afford to keep its benchmark interest rate at a record low, and how to prepare financial markets for the start …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 5 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

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