Wednesday, April 24, 2024

California To Provide Financial Boost To Help Buy Health Coverage

If you are among the Californians who buy your own health insurance, a surprise may await you as the enrollment period for 2020 coverage opens this week. Starting Jan. 1,...

AmazonBasics Products Are Catching Fire, Literally

An extensive CNN investigation report reveals that despite several AmazonBasics products catching fire when used, the same products are still being sold on the company’s website AmazonBasics products catching...

Apple/Google and Epic Games Dispute

Epic Games continues to dispute Apple to allow their game, Fortnite, to be downloaded on Apple devices Epic Games dispute Apple and Google over revenue policies Epic Games response...

Five graphs that show how uncertain markets are about the coronavirus recovery

Financial markets can tell us a lot about the economic recovery ahead, based on their direction of travel and how confident investors feel about the future. This is important...

University funding: a juggling act

The federal government’s juggling act with university funding today – making some arts and humanities courses more than twice as expensive, but “job-relevant” courses cheaper – is “unfortunate and...

Analysis: Texas in a state of financial uncertainty

It will be a miracle if Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar and his team of financial prognosticators are right about the arc of the state’s economy over the next few months. The LBJ...

Udall: NM set to get financial relief, another bill likely on its way

Thanks to a $2 trillion congressional relief package, New Mexico will start seeing financial support from the federal government for businesses impacted by COVID-19. And U.S. Sen. Tom Udall,...

City Bid to Borrow Billions Could Lead to Renewed Power for State Budget Board

With the City Council moving to back Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plans to borrow billions of dollars to cover red ink in the city budget, fiscal experts are digging...

If you could do it all over again…

Not long after Aimee McQuilken and her daughters touched down in Texas for a mid-March family visit, the NBA announced it was suspending the 2020 season in response to...

Trump administration says it plans to use financial pressure to push schools to reopen...

President Trump and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos are continuing their aggressive push for schools across the country to offer in-person instruction five days a week this fall, raising threats...