Accuracy, rigor and clarity are core values here at FiveThirtyEight, and we’re looking for someone who shares them. FiveThirtyEight is hiring a part-time copy editor and fact-checker to join its copy desk and help ensure that our stories, charts, videos and interactive graphics meet the site’s standards for methodological rigor,... Read more »

President Biden will soon sign into law a $1.9 trillion bill intended to boost the economy and help the U.S. deal with the effects of the novel coronavirus pandemic. It’s only the second bill Biden has signed into law and likely to be one of the most significant. So let’s... Read more »

In this episode of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, host Galen Druke speaks with Heather Boushey, a member of the Council of Economic Advisers, on the rationale behind the American Rescue Plan.... Read more »

How Fast Is The Economy Recovering? By Julia Wolfe and Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux For nearly a year, the economy has been on a long, exhausting slog toward post-pandemic “normalcy.” And it isn’t over yet. This page — which we plan to update every month — will tell us how far we... Read more »

Congressional Democrats are pushing to give most Americans $2,000 stimulus checks, arguing that this is a fast and direct way to help millions of Americans as they struggle with the economic slowdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. President Trump supports $2,000 payments, too, but most congressional Republicans don’t. Because of... Read more »

Over the course of 2020, FiveThirtyEight’s visual journalists covered a historic election, an unprecedented year in sports, a raging pandemic and an economy in free fall. So to cap off this long, strange, difficult year, we’re continuing our tradition of celebrating the best — and weirdest — charts we’ve published... Read more »

It’s been about four months since the National Bureau of Economic Research declared that the U.S. was officially in a recession, and what a weird recession — and recovery — it’s been. The stock market has been merrily chugging along since February, when the recession began; disposable income increased even... Read more »

The final jobs report before the presidential election is here. In September, 661,000 more people were employed than in August, and the unemployment rate fell to 7.9 percent. That’s a slight — but not huge — improvement over last month, when the unemployment rate was 8.4 percent. (Compare this report’s... Read more »

Back in the early days of the coronavirus in the U.S., many economists believed that aggressive lockdowns would be the best long-term solution for managing the pandemic, despite the short-term economic pain they would cause. Six months later, we wanted to know: Did that logic hold up? And what political... Read more »

After an August jobs report that yielded better-than-expected results for American workers, economists have a much sunnier outlook on unemployment through the end of the year. But that optimism isn’t trickling into the rest of their economic forecasts — in part because there’s still so much uncertainty about what the... Read more »

Is the economy finally starting to rebound? Based on the headline numbers from the August jobs report, things sure look that way. The report shows that the economy added 1.4 million jobs in August, and the unemployment rate fell below 10 percent for the first time since March, to 8.4... Read more »

Graphics by Jasmine Mithani Once we find a COVID-19 vaccine, our lives can return to normal, right? Economists don’t think so. Even if the vast majority of the population become immune to the coronavirus tomorrow, leading economists think it could take six months or more before our economy is back... Read more »

A sudden uptick in food insecurity. A wave of evictions. People spending less money at shops and restaurants. More job losses. According to leading economists, that’s what’s likely in store for the U.S. economy this year if Congress doesn’t renew any of the $600-per-week supplementary payment for unemployed workers by... Read more »

After three straight months of declining unemployment, we have only just returned to levels of unemployment that rival the depths of the Great Recession. Friday’s jobs report revealed that the unemployment rate dropped from 11.1 percent in June to 10.2 percent in July, and 1.8 million more people were employed... Read more »

The litany of setbacks is probably not over... Read more »

Shortages in commodity markets offer a paradigm for the post-virus economy... Read more »

Americans’ pursuit of leafiness contains hints of a transformative shift... Read more »

The gains from experimentation could extend beyond older women... Read more »

What a recent rights issue by its biggest lender tells you... Read more »

A new study causes controversy... Read more »

Don’t count on it: the new yuan will be a lot like the old yuan... Read more »

A clear understanding of its economic effects has been a long time coming... Read more »

Reserves have been depleted, and many Turks now save in dollars... Read more »

The damage is already visible from space... Read more »

With dealmaking at a frantic pace, speed matters... Read more »

People spend more, take more risks—and demand more of politicians... Read more »

Labour shortages are rising even though unemployment remains high... Read more »

America’s president plans to raise both the corporate and the capital-gains tax... Read more »

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U.K. food delivery startup Deliveroo entered the London Stock Exchange market this week, but seems to have failed to impress. Listing itself as Deliveroo Holdings… The post Deliveroo IPO Falls Short in Its London Debut appeared first on Grit Daily News.... Read more »

Zomato, an India-based food delivery service, will file to go public sometime this month. According to several of the company’s sources, its future IPO could… The post Zomato Food Delivery Service Seeks IPO Opportunity appeared first on Grit Daily News.... Read more »

GOGOX, a Hong Kong-based company that runs as the first app-based logistics platform for delivering goods in Asia, might be planning to IPO fairly soon.… The post Hong Kong Unicorn GOGOX Considering a $400 Million IPO appeared first on Grit Daily News.... Read more »