David and Joyce Dinkins attend 2011 US Open opening night ceremonies at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on August 29, 2011 in Flushing, New York. – FLUSHING, NY – AUGUST 29 (Shutterstock) By Eyewitness News NEW YORK CITY (WABC) — The wife of former New York City Mayor David Dinkins has passed […]
By Alex Roha, Housing Wire Following previous natural disaster recovery patterns, mortgage delinquencies are not expected to return to pre-pandemic levels until March 2022, according to a report from Black Knight. If trends persist, the data service provider estimates once the first wave of forbearances hit their 12-month expiration in March 2021, there may be more than 1 […]
By Adam S. Minsky, Esq., Forbes President Trump on Tuesday put the brakes on any further stimulus negotiations in a series of Tweets. “Nancy Pelosi is asking for $2.4 Trillion Dollars to bailout poorly run, high crime, Democrat States, money that is in no way related to COVID-19,” the President said. “We made a very […]
By The Economist TO SAY THAT the pandemic has been hard for the American economy would be putting it mildly. The unemployment rate, which stood at just 3.5% in February, is now 7.9%; there are 10.7m fewer jobs today than there were six months ago; a quarter of the workforce is working from home. You […]
By Megan Leonhardt, CNBC Most voters do not believe the U.S. will quickly rebound from the recession caused by the effects of coronavirus pandemic. In fact, about 65% of registered voters expect the U.S. economy to take more than a year to recover. That’s according to a new survey bill pay service doxo released on Tuesday that […]
By Paul Kiel and Jeff Ernsthausen, ProPublica Earlier this year, the pandemic swept across the country, killing 100,000 Americans by the spring, shuttering businesses and schools, and forcing people into their homes. It was a great time to be a debt collector. In August, Encore Capital, the largest debt buyer in the country, announced that […]
By Calvin G. Brown, WiredJA WASHINGTON, DC – October 8, 2020: The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) says given the unprecedented nature of the COVID-19 pandemic, under further strong deterioration of macro financial conditions, some Trinidad and Tobago banks could breach their minimum capital requirements in 2022. A report from the IMF following […]
By Calvin G. Brown, WiredJA KINGSTOWN, St Vincent, October 8, 2020 – The people of St. Vincent and the Grenadines will go to the polls on November 5 to elect a new government. Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves who will be seeking his fifth consecutive term made the announcement during an online meeting of the […]
The California senator's poise and firmness made for a satisfying contrast to the vice president's smug condescension and interruptions — but an insect stole the show.
By Inkoo Kang, The Hollywood Reporter The first and only vice presidential debate of the 2020 election could’ve been a taste of normalcy — a now-exotic blandness in a brain-melting, sanity-bombarding year. After all, Mike Pence’s main political asset, other than the network of evangelicals that he helped usher into Trump’s base, is supposed to […]
US President Donald Trump speaks at a press conference in the East Room of the White House alongside German Chancellor Angela Merkel. – Washington, DC – April 27, 2018 (Shutterstock) New York, NY—On Wednesday afternoon, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit rejected the Trump administration’s appeal for a stay on Judge Koh’s order that […]