May 8, 2020 | Daily JAM |
By this time you're aware of the headline numbers: The U.S. economy lost 20.5 million jobs in April, according to the Labor Department today. That took the official unemployment rate to 14.7%. But there's a lot of pick apart in this report. So shall we begin? First,...
May 4, 2020 | Daily JAM |
Warm spring weather did battle with pleas for social distancing and continued use of face masks. Guess which won? Which has already led some recently re-oped parks to shut down again. A popular park in Miami Beach, Fla., shut down Monday, five days after it reopened,...
April 23, 2020 | Daily JAM |
Texas reported its third-straight daily increase in the number of new coronavirus cases, with an additional 875 cases of the virus. That brought the state's total to 21,944. Another 18 people died, bringing total fatalities to 561. The increase comes as the number of...
April 13, 2020 | Daily JAM, Dip-O-Meter |
President Donald Trump has made it clear that his preference is to re-open the economy by May 1. Administration officials including economic advisors Larry Kudlow and Peter Navarro, and Attorney General William Barr have taken to repeating the mantra "The cure can't...
April 9, 2020 | Daily JAM |
Add Attorney General William Barr to voices in the Trump administration, including President Donald Trump, pushing to "re-open" the U.S. economy sooner rather than later. The Attorney General, in an interview with Fox News' Laura Ingraham, said some of the...