Requiring all private firearm sales in Massachusetts to take place in a federally licensed gun store — and be run through the shop's background check system — would close a "dangerous loophole" in current laws, a Natick lawmaker said Tuesday.
The U.S. stock market is a decade into a rally that has seen broad indexes triple in value and generate $30 trillion in wealth. The unemployment rate is 3.8% nationally, and the early caucus and primary states of Iowa and New Hampshire are tied with even lower seasonally adjusted rates of 2.4%. Real annual growth in the gross domestic product was recently estimated at 2.9% for the United States in 2018, outpacing other developed economies such as those of Japan and Europe.
Does this sound like a textbook case of pre-revolutionary misery? Not exactly.
