(And if you haven’t voted yet, use today’s extra daylight saving hour to make a plan for the polls.) The rebound was partly fueled by trillions of dollars in government aid to businesses and households, which is now running dry. The improvement is also relative to how badly the economy tanked earlier this year, when the coronavirus forced the first round of lockdowns. On the flip side, Democrats said the companies should have done more to curb falsehoods and violent content. But Big Tech had the last laugh: Facebook, Alphabet (Google’s parent company), Amazon and Apple all reported gigantic quarterly earnings later in the week.

Source: New York Times November 01, 2020 12:00 UTC