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With a June jobless rate of 14.6 percent and a five-year annualized employment growth rate of negative 2 percent, the Illinois economy finished sixth worst in a new ranking by the website 24/7 Wall St.
Summary and audio linked here.
Much of the routine trade and investment between China and America is entirely appropriate and in America’s interest. But inserting the Chinese Communist Party into America’s pay-to-play system and its economic development strategy isn’t just crossing a line. It’s a leap into an abyss of stupidity.
Summary and audio linked here.
Illinois paid the price for embracing Fauci’s “science.” Here’s the retrospective.
Podcast link is here.
This is Pritzker’s legacy – Higher taxes, needlessly shutting down the state for political reasons’s, above average unemployment, and mediocre growth.
Not being the worst is big win for Springfield. (The bar is really low for Illinois.)