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Qualtek, a legacy manufacturing company with half a century of history in Colorado Springs, will go out of business early next month — a casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic.
with the president before a 9 90-minute lunch. trying to engage the u.s. and the world. and mike pompeo touching down in brussels to meet with nato allies. he is off to the middle east for stops in saudi arabia and middle east and jordan. he has no plans to meet with palestinian leaders. he was confirmed by the senate in the 57-42 vote despite opposition from most democrats. president trump s tariffs hurting u.s. companies. corporate america is telling us how badly. one fifth of s&p 500 companies brought up tariffs and they are facing higher metal costs. caterpillar is a bellwether for
1857 at some point, there used to be a large cent prior to 1866 a replaced by a lighter and smaller cent for the same reason. metal costs would outweigh the nominal value of a coin. reporter: for every dollar issued, it costs 146.46. and taxpayers lost $60 million producing pennies and $56.5 million producing nickels. getting rid of small change would cause rounding issues and smat is some point, computers may take the place of physical coins and bills. there will come a time when the coins will be something just for a museum, probably not in my lifetime, perhaps in into my 16-year-old son s lifetime where the electronics will get so easy
presidential election. the caucuses aren t until it s winter, until snow on the ground. at least it s been entertaining. up first texas governor rick perry on the attack in new hampshire. hit the ground running and hitting president obama hard calling his handling of the economy a disaster. he s not backing down from his verbal assault in iowa this week on fed chairman ben bernanke. here s what governor perry said. if this guy prints more money, between now and the election, i don t know what you all would do to him in iowa, but we d we would treat him pretty ugly down in texas. i mean, printing more money, to play politics at this particular time in american history, is almost treasonous in my opinion. this morning, governor perry is headlining the politics and eggs breakfast in new hampshire. cnn senior political editor mark preston is covering that event and joins us live from bedford. the texas governor, i m telling you he s backing up his comments about berna