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Your Monday Briefing

Europe’s ‘mental health pandemic’With coronavirus restrictions in European countries set to drag into the spring or perhaps longer, health professionals fear the deteriorating mental state of young people, who they […]




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Biden and the Fed Leave 1970s Inflation Fears Behind

Economists have struggled to understand the phenomenon, but they largely think inflation is being held down by a cocktail of aging demographics, changing consumer expectations and limited pricing power in […]




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W.T.O. Set to Gain New Chief, but Deep Issues Remain

WASHINGTON — Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, a Nigerian economist and former finance minister, is poised to become the first woman and first African to lead the World Trade Organization, when the members […]




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Democrats Push to Borrow More Money as Deficit Is Set to Shrink Slightly in 2021

WASHINGTON — As top Democrats continued to push a $1.9 trillion economic aid package through the House, some lawmakers and aides to President Biden raised the prospect of borrowing even […]




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Is My Stimulus Payment Taxable? And Other Tax Questions

Ms. Long generally recommends that people getting unemployment benefits choose to have at least 10 percent withheld for taxes to avoid unwelcome surprises.You’ll probably also owe state income taxes on […]




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January 2021 Jobs Report: Outlook for Economic Recovery Dims

The American economic recovery showed new signs of stalling on Friday as government data underscored the pandemic’s brutal damage to the job market.U.S. employers added 49,000 jobs in January, the […]




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How the Biden Administration Can Help Solve Our Reality Crisis

It sounds a little dystopian, I’ll grant. But let’s hear them out.Right now, these experts said, the federal government’s response to disinformation and domestic extremism is haphazard and spread across […]




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C.B.O. Report Says U.S. Economy Is Healing, But Workers Have A Ways to Go

WASHINGTON — The United States economy will return to its pre-pandemic size by the middle of this year, even if Congress does not approve any more federal money to aid […]




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G.M. Announcement Shakes Up U.S. Automakers’ Transition to Electric Cars

And China’s decision late last year to require that most vehicles sold there be electric by 2035 is also critical because G.M. sells more cars in that country through its […]




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G.M. Will Sell Only Zero-Emission Vehicles by 2035

G.M.’s move appears to follow a pattern by Ms. Barra of responding quickly to changes in the White House. It was Ms. Barra who, in the early days of the […]