Notations On Our World (Special Friday Edition): #RandomThoughts on Our World

As our team continues its' on-going assessment of the US Election Scene, we hereby present the following courtesy Seth Meyers and Trevor Noah on the week that was:

This is as this occurred this week:

Fed commits to interest rates near zero until economy is at 'maximum employment' In its last meeting before the November elections, the Federal Reserve on Wednesday did as expected and announced that it will maintain a target interest rate at or near zero percent until the economy recovers from the coronavirus pandemic, which could take years to accomplish. Read the full story here. As we continue our assessment of a POST-COVID World, we present this snapshot of the expected recovery courtesy the team at the Visual Capitalist:

This is as we continue to assess the state of the US Senate Race as the National Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee warned that the US Senate control may change hands:

Democratic Senate majority likelier due to Maine's ranked-choice voting system Counting votes cast in Maine's marquee Senate race will be complicated this fall by a likely surge in mail-in ballots and its voting system. Republican Sen. Susan Collins needs majority support, not just a plurality of the votes, if she wants to win her fifth term after first being elected to Congress in 1996. That's because, for the first time, Maine's Senate race could be decided by ranked-choice voting. Read the full story here.