Aug 4, 2020

For the first time in months, global manufacturing expanded

More automation could be a solution to crowded, hands-on production lines. Ethan Miller/Getty Images

Manufacturing is not only up but growing. Plus, President Trump wants the U.S. government to get a cut of any American deal with TikTok. And, research on hits to the health care industry and how that affects the wider economy.

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Two indicators show that manufacturing is up both domestically and globally

Jeffrey Cleveland, chief economist at Payden and Rygel, has more.

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TikTok

Trump OKs American acquisition of TikTok, but only if the U.S. gets a cut of the deal

by Scott Tong

Aug 4, 2020

Microsoft can "go ahead" with efforts to buy TikTok, Trump said, so long as the U.S. Treasury pockets "a substantial amount of money."

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COVID-19

With fewer people on health insurance, health care jobs could be in jeopardy, report says

by Sabri Ben-Achour , Rose Conlon , Erika Soderstrom and Alex Schroeder

Aug 4, 2020

The employer-provided health insurance losses projected to come could cost the U.S. economy another 1.5 million to 2.5 million jobs.

In the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, reduced revenue to health care providers made up 29% of the historic second-quarter GDP decline.

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