by Olivia Morley | May 19, 2021 | Economy, Featured, Retail Sales
The last few weeks have been busy for Eleni Tziouvaras, who owns Goleta, California-based E Salon. Tziouvaras’ business contracted at the beginning of the pandemic, slashing her income by 90 percent to $15,000 in 2020. Now, with restrictions on businesses being lifted...
by Minji Koo | May 24, 2020 | Economy, Featured, Jobs
When Erin Haley-Hitz’s boss called to tell her that she was laid off in mid-March, her first reaction was relief. As a dental hygienist, her job involved coming into close contact with dozens of people every week — social distancing wasn’t an option. But...
by Hafsa Quraishi | Feb 14, 2020 | Economy, Featured, International Trade
The United States’ international trade deficit shrank last year for the first time since 2013, as the U.S.-China trade war reduced imports and slowed global trade — but the trend will likely reverse this year as the market returns to normal. The U.S. trade...
by Karishma Vanjani | Mar 25, 2019 | Economy, Featured, Retail Sales
Retail sales stabilized in January but didn’t rebound from the surprisingly low December numbers, signalling the economy is off to a sluggish start in the first quarter. Overall sales rose a seasonally adjusted 0.2% in January, pushed up by purchases made...
by Elizabeth Ramanand | May 30, 2017 | Autos, Featured, Newest
Freely roaming an open world, with fire arms, speeding down highways throughout the streets of New York might not fully be reality in city but it’s certainly the case in the video game Grand Theft Auto IV, which is being used to advance real life driverless cars....
