by WorldTribune Staff, April 23, 2020 Harvard University has a $40.9 billion endowment, the largest in the world and greater than the gross domestic product of 90 countries. On April 22, Harvard said it would return the $8.6 million in coronavirus relief funds it received from the federal government. But, while doing so, the Ivy […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 21, 2020 The United States travel industry has lost eight million jobs amid the coronavirus crisis. That is a third of the industry’s U.S.-based jobs, the U.S. Travel Association said. Travel spending on airlines, hotels, and the hospitality industry has sunk so low that spending losses will top half a trillion […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 19, 2020 The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget has projected that debt held by the public due to the coronavirus crisis “will exceed the size of the economy by the end of Fiscal Year 2020 and eclipse the prior record set after World War II by 2023.” The budget-focused think […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 17, 2020 Americans are struggling mightily to cope with the economic impact of the coronavirus crisis. Many wait for days just to file for unemployment on overloaded state websites. Some who filed in March have yet to receive their first weekly check. Others struggling to make ends meet are waiting in […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 17, 2020 The U.S. economy is headed toward another great depression if it contracts any further due to the coronavirus shutdown, radio host Rush Limbaugh warned. “All we need is a 30 to 40 percent contraction in this economy,” Limbaugh said on his April 16 broadcast. “We’ll hit Great Recession territory […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 14, 2020 According to data from Johns Hopkins University of Medicine’s Coronavirus Resource Center, as of April 13, 0.17 percent of the U.S. population has been infected by the coronavirus. “That means 0.007 percent of America’s population has died from the coronavirus — we think,” a columnist noted. The numbers on […]
Special to WorldTribune, March 30, 2020 Commentary by Charles Togias The following is a word by word quote, Chapter 1, from my book ‘Political Correctness Is Total BS’. “I now know without a doubt the radical Dems would rather have President Trump fail/impeached even if it meant his success would improve the lives of humanity […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 25, 2020 “Panic mixed with shameless pandering is a recipe for a bigger crisis than the coronavirus itself,” Conservative Review senior editor Daniel Horowitz wrote. “Politicians and the media are telling the public to be prudent and not to panic, but everything they are saying and implementing is sowing panic, and […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 24, 2020 Democrats’ attempts to slip parts of the Green New Deal and other unrelated projects into the coronavirus stimulus bill “will never be approved by me,” President Donald Trump said on Tuesday. After several days of negotiating, Republican and Democratic senators were close to approving a $2 trillion package that […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 17, 2020 Amid the coronavirus crisis, the Trump administration said Tuesday it is looking to send direct payments to Americans within two weeks. “We’re looking at sending checks to Americans immediately,” Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said at a White House Press briefing. “Americans need cash now and the president wants” to […]
