John Carney

The looters of a New York City Rolex store did not get justice, but they did get a high price timepiece on Monday night.

Macy’s has been looted. Shops in the diamond district are being emptied. High end fashion stores along Fifth Avenue are ransacked. Even local bodegas are under attack.

The protests taking place across many American cities may or may not give rise to reforms in how our county polices itself, but the rioting, looting, and violence that have too often followed are likely to have damaging and long-running economic consequences for the communities afflicted.

More evidence that the worst of the shutdown’s economic impact is behind us.

Protesters vandalized St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City late Saturday night, leaving hateful graffiti on the stairs and walls.

Treasury’s spokeswoman explained on Friday how the Paycheck Protection Program would be changed to make it more useful for small businesses.

Current conditions look better than they did a month ago but the outlook for the future is grimmer.

Government payments boosted income in April but Americans shut in their homes spent nearly $2 trillion less than they had a month earlier.

Orders for core capital goods dropped in April but the decline was much smaller than most economists had forecast.

The economic contraction that began in March was even more severe than initially reported.

Roughly 40 million layoffs since the coronavirus shutdowns began.

Shares of retailers like Macy’s, Kohl’s, and the Gap rose sharply as investors cheered evidence that the economy is recovering.

American optimism strengthened in May as coronavirus restrictions were relaxed and many areas saw infections and deaths decline.

Economists expected a sharp decline in sales of new homes for April. Instead, sales actually rose from March.

Small pieces of real time, high frequency economic data all tell the same story: the worst of the coronavirus impact on the U.S. economy is behind us.

Biden also falsely claimed the vast majority of emergency loans were going to big businesses.

Almost all of the companies stores have been temporarily closed because of the pandemic. Now many of those closures will become permanent.

Continuing claims hit a record high of just over 25 million.

The company sent workers home from two plants Wednesday after workers were discovered to have teste positive for coronavirus.

Democrats overwhelming think a second wave of infection is coming later this year. That could be a drag on the economy and hold back the recovery.

Total fertility has fallen to the lowest level ever in records that date back to 1909.

As many states begin to reopen their economies following the coronavirus shutdowns, Democrats are far more likely to say they are worried and less likely to say they are happy.

Travel stocks got a big boost Monday as hopes for a coronavirus vaccine were sparked when Moderna said its phase 1 trial was seeing positive results.

Auto production fell 70 percent. Business equipment manufacturing fell 17.3 percent.

Fewer Americans are worried about their financial health or physical health. But concern over social isolation is rising.

Michigan, Pennsylvania, and New York businesses have been hard hit. South Dakota much less so. Hawaii, with few infections, got clobbered.

Jobless claims remain high as the economy continues to stumble from coronavirus hit and lockdowns.

Economists have downgraded their expectations for the current quarter but expect stronger growth in the third quarter

Trump’s remarks came after a billionaire former George Soros protege said the ‘risk-reward’ for stocks now is “as bad as I’ve ever seen it.”

The price of chicken crashed while the price of beef soared.