US homebuilding retreats; manufacturing turning the corner

WASHINGTON, April 16 (Reuters) - U.S. single-family homebuilding tumbled in March, and while new construction ... appears to be turning the corner. These two sectors were the most impacted by ... Read More

Toxic: How the search for the origins of COVID-19 turned politically poisonous

The hunt for the origins of COVID-19 has gone dark in China, the victim of political infighting after a series of stalled and thwarted attempts to find the source of the virus that killed millions and ... Read More

COVID-19 Variant JN.1 Loses Ground to Emerging Subvariant

It accounted for less than 2% of new infections over the past two weeks. Despite the spread of different subvariants, COVID-19 is decreasing across most of the U.S. The CDC states that respiratory ... Read More

Stumbling Into Goldilocks

The U.S. economy has been far more successful at recovering from the Covid shock than it was in ... unemployment would rise by about a percentage point, which would have triggered the Sahm Rule ... Read More

The high cost of COVID $timulus, NPR CEO’s censorship and other commentary

Libertarian: The High Cost of COVID $timulus Attorney General Merrick Garland this month boasted of recovering more than $1.4 billion in stolen COVID relief funds, yet “that’s only a fraction” of even ... Read More

US homebuilding retreats; manufacturing turning the corner

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. single-family homebuilding tumbled in March, and while new construction remains ... well below the 1.145 million units before the COVID-19 pandemic. Read More