Michael B. Sauter - Author for 24/7 Wall St.
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Pfizer and BioNtech announced on Nov. 18 the first set of results from its late-stage COVID-19 vaccine trials, stating it is 95% effective and with no serious side effects. The companies will soon be...
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Thanks to a dangerous surge of the COVID-19 pandemic, many schools throughout the country that attempted to start the year with full in-person classes have already had to revert to virtual learning....
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Pharmaceutical company Moderna announced on Monday that its experimental COVID-19 vaccine had shown in tests to be nearly 95% effective. The announcement came just a week after Pfizer said its...
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On Nov. 9, pharmaceutical company Pfizer announced that its vaccine in development was over 90% effective in preventing contraction of COVID-19. While this is promising news, more tests are needed,...
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The COVID-19 pandemic continues to surge to an unprecedented level. Since Nov. 4, at least 100,000 new cases of the virus have been reported every day in the United States. A record 131,084 cases...
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The strength of the American middle class is a common point of focus among politicians and analysts, as it was during this most recent presidential election. For many, this group is important for...
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As the Coronavirus continues to affect the American economy, the value of the country’s currency has taken a hit in international markets. Even so, the U.S. dollar remains one of the most...
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The United States is approaching another grim milestone in the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. At the current rate of spread, well more than 10 million U.S. residents will have been infected with the...
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As the nation turns its full attention to the results of the presidential election, the COVID-19 pandemic — long one of the election’s central issues — continues to worsen across the country....
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Since 2001, the annual presidential salary has been set at $400,000. Even before that, every president has been paid well. George Washington’s salary of $25,000 was equivalent to over $700,000 in...
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In March 2019, Jimmy Carter became the longest-living former president in U.S. history. Carter, who is now 96, passed President George H.W. Bush, who, at the time of his death, was the longest living...
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In the early days of American democracy, being a wealthy, white, male landowner was a prerequisite to having a voice in how the country was run. So it should come as no surprise that many of...
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The U.S. reported a record 500,000 new cases in a single week in late October, and now a number of European countries have started to reintroduce lockdowns or other restrictions. Over 8.3 million...
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On Oct. 23, the United States set a single day record for the most new reported cases of COVID-19, at 77,057. The following day, it broke that record, with nearly 79,000 cases reported. This comes...
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Over 8.3 million COVID-19 infections have been reported in the United States since the pandemic first reached the country, equivalent to more than one in every 50 Americans. More than 220,000...
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