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Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., chided some of the conspiracy theories that have surfaced surrounding the Hurricane Helene recovery efforts in western North Carolina.”If there are any challenges, call my office,” Tillis said Sunday on CBS’ “Face the Nation.” “We’ll track them down if there are real issues, but quite honestly,…

Federal Emergency Management Agency administrator Deanne Criswell on Sunday criticized former President Donald Trump for spreading false information about how the Biden administration allocated disaster relief funding for Hurricane Helene recovery.”It’s frankly ridiculous and just plain false,” Criswell said in an interview on ABC’s “This Week.” “This kind of rhetoric is…

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One financial firm is trying to capitalize on preferred stocks – which carry more risks than bonds, but aren’t as risky as common stocks.Infrastructure Capital Advisors Founder and CEO Jay Hatfield manages the Virtus InfraCap U.S. Preferred Stock ETF (PFFA). He leads the company’s investing and business development.”High yield bonds…

Stacie Grissom and Sean Wilson lived in New York City for almost a decade, and then the covid-19 pandemic hit.In early 2020, Grissom was pregnant with their first child and working in marketing at BarkBox, while Wilson was working as an orthopedic surgeon in NYC hospitals.Seeing the state of the…

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The average rate on the 30-year-fixed mortgage jumped 27 basis points Friday morning following the release of the government’s monthly employment report. The rate is now 6.53%, according to Mortgage News Daily.That is 42 basis points higher than Sept. 17, the day before the Federal Reserve cut its benchmark rate…

September’s outsized payrolls boost takes the U.S. economy out of the shadows of recession and gives the Federal Reserve a fairly open glide path to a soft landing.If that sounds like a Goldilocks scenario, it’s probably not far from it, even with the lingering inflation concerns that are straining consumers’…

This article was written byFollowEdmund Ingham is a biotech consultant. He has been covering biotech, healthcare, and pharma for over 5 years, and has put together detailed reports of over 1,000 companies. He leads the investing group Haggerston BioHealth. The group is for both novice and experienced biotech investors. It…