Tag: Joseph Lawler

A consulting firm sent riders out in poor Queens and Brooklyn neighborhoods to test UberX, versus taxis and livery cabs. (Getty Images)

Uber twice as fast as taxis in low-income NYC neighborhoods

Joseph Lawler · July 24, 2015 2:20 pm

The report showed that for the week ending July 18, there were just 255,000 first-time claims for unemployment benefits throughout the 50 states.Â (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)

Jobless claims hint at a job market on fire

Joseph Lawler · July 24, 2015 4:01 am

Obama to appoint Texas economist Sandra Black as economic adviser

Joseph Lawler · July 23, 2015 9:39 pm

"It's probably more tension than I've seen in a long time," Senate Banking Committee Chairman Richard Shelby said. (Getty Images)

Shelby on advancing banking legislation: ‘We’re serious about this’

Joseph Lawler · July 23, 2015 6:04 pm

The Labor Department reports on the number of people who applied for unemployment benefits during the week ending July 18 on Thursday. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Jobless claims lowest since 1973 at 255,000

Joseph Lawler · July 23, 2015 12:32 pm

"If there's not going to be reform, we ought to let it die," Richard Shelby said of the Export-Import Bank on Tuesday in the Capitol. (AP Photo)Â

GOP measure to overhaul financial rules attached to appropriations bill

Joseph Lawler · July 22, 2015 9:32 pm

A pensioner reads a newspaper on September 8, 2014 in Walsall, England. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Social Security disability program to go bust in 2016

Joseph Lawler · July 22, 2015 5:43 pm

A realtor walks with a potential buyer at a home for sale. The National Association of Realtors releases existing home sales for June on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Homes selling at quickest pace since 2007

Joseph Lawler · July 22, 2015 3:16 pm

Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen expressed skepticism about using the funds to fund highway spending in congressional testimony last week, telling Senate Banking Committee Chairman Richard Shelby, R-Ala., that she worried about the "unintended consequences" of lowering the dividend. Shelby also indicated opposition to using the dividend as a pay-for.

Highway bill would cut dividends paid by Fed to banks

Joseph Lawler · July 21, 2015 10:09 pm

Five of the biggest and oldest tax breaks account for 51 percent of the cost, Sen. Orrin Hatch says. (AP file)

Senate panel advances $96 billion package of tax breaks

Joseph Lawler · July 21, 2015 6:01 pm

The consumer agency and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency also each charged the bank with a $35 million penalty. (Getty Images file)

Consumer bureau orders Citibank to pay $700m for tricking credit-card customers

Joseph Lawler · July 21, 2015 4:54 pm

President Obama will nominate University of Michigan economist Kathryn Dominguez to the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors. (AP Photo) Â

Obama to nominate Michigan economist Kathryn Dominguez to Federal Reserve

Joseph Lawler · July 20, 2015 10:28 pm