![United States space agency NASA is planning to launch a mission to Jupiter in October 2024 to explore one of its moons, Europa, which can be seen to the left of the planet in this Hubble Space Telescope image [File: NASA via AP]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/AP20261688288465-1.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
THE WEEK IN NUMBERS
Robinhood’s IPO, unrest in Tunisia and a Jupiter moon shot
We gather the numbers to know from the week’s biggest economic news stories so you can impress your friends.
![As tourism dried up, the Cuban economy shrank 11 percent in 2020, according to Economy Minister Alejandro Gil, its deepest slump since the collapse of the Soviet Union [File: Natalia Favre/Bloomberg]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/373529474.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Cuba’s economy shrank by 11 percent in 2020, the sharpest contraction since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
![United States Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell reiterated that the Fed is willing to tolerate current levels of inflation to achieve its long-term goals of a full recovery, a message he has echoed since the Fed upped its bond-buying and lowered interest rates to near zero in response to the COVID-19 crisis [File: Susan Walsh/AP Photo]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Pow.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell testified before the House Committee on Financial Services Wednesday.
![Robina and her husband Norwood [Photo courtesy of Robina Asti]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Robina-and-her-husband-Norwood-Courtesy-Robina-Asti.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Robina Asti fought a quiet battle for acceptance before choosing to speak out publicly for LGBTQ rights when she was 92.
![Chelsea and Kwesi Johnson are raising their four living children while honouring the memory of their son, Christopher (pictured in framed photo), who died when he was three months old [Photo courtesy of Chelsea Johnson]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/FOR-MAIN-IMAGE-ChelseaAndFamily-Credit-Chelsea-Johnson.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Families coping with miscarriage, stillbirth or infant loss must often pay thousands of dollars in medical bills.
![In remarks following a policy meeting, United States Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell urged patience and humility as the US rebuilds its economy after the unprecedented coronavirus pandemic [File: Susan Walsh/AP Photo]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/AP21118568441136.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
The US Fed’s latest projections have inflation rising to 3.4 percent in 2021, a full point higher than March’s estimate.
![The small Salvadoran beach town of El Zonte has already made cryptocurrency part of daily life, and now the rest of the country will join the experiment thanks to a new law making Bitcoin legal tender [File: Salvador Melendez/AP Photo]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/AP21161064995104.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
El Salvador uses the dollar as its currency and its monetary policy is wedded to the US even as relations falter.
![United States space agency NASA announced plans for two missions to Venus, known as Earth's 'sister planet', between 2028 and 2030, the first in decades [File: Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/091deed747484f4680f443d45e717cba_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
THE WEEK IN NUMBERS
Lebanon’s crisis, New Black Wall Street, Venus and space squids
We gather the numbers to know from the week’s biggest economic news stories so you can impress your friends.
![Restaurants eager to up their sales after a devastating 2020 find themselves constrained by the lack of workers — and they’re paying the price [File: John Minchillo/AP Photo]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/AP20084808411133.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Restaurant owners are struggling to keep up with renewed demand as vaccinated Americans go out to eat.
![Rodrigo Guerra, 33, died from COVID-19 on Christmas Eve, two days after his daughter's first birthday. In addition to grieving the loss of her husband, Laura Guerra is now struggling with a new reality as a widow and single mother [Courtesy: Laura Guerra]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Laura-Guerra-with-her-husband-and-daughter.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Children in the US are struggling with the emotional and financial toll of losing a parent to COVID-19.