(Headline USA) Online retailer eBay Inc. will pay a $3 million fine to resolve criminal charges over a harassment campaign waged by employees who sent live spiders, cockroaches and other disturbing items to the home of a Massachusetts couple, according to court papers filed Thursday.
The Justice Department charged eBay with stalking, witness tampering and...
(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) McDonald's has decided to re-brand its signature sandwich, the Big Mac, as the company---long a symbol of American consumerism---attempts to emphasize quality over factors such as size, cost and speed that have frequently been its hallmarks, the Wall Street Journal reported.
According to Chris Young, McDonald’s...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals Exchange) Gold has outperformed both stocks and bonds since the turn of the century.
Gold was among the best-performing assets of 2023.
According to analysis by the World Gold Council, gold outperformed emerging market stocks, U.S. bonds, the U.S. dollar, global treasuries, and commodities in general. The...
(Joshua D. Glawson, Money Metals Exchange) There is an untold story in American monetary history. Some are reluctant even to discuss it.
I’m referring to the U.S. Secret Service’s very own role in the destruction of sound money in America.
As constitutional, sound money in the form of physical gold and...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) JPMorgan Chase has published financial predictions for 2024, forecasting that President Joe Biden may leave office before the November elections due to his failing health.
JP Morgan’s prediction was made in its annual outlook report, in which it outlines expectations for the coming year. Overall, the...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) President Joe Biden’s militant speech on the anniversary of the Jan. 6 protests left many conservative commentators and political analysts concerned due to the alarmist and disturbing tone of the scandal-laden president.
From likening himself to George Washington to portraying his primary opponent as a Neo-Nazi, Biden's...
(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., the Democrat-designated House speaker emerita, continued her unprecedented run of incredible stock-market gains in 2023, the Daily Mail reported.
Last year, Pelosi---who, along with her husband, Paul, has a long history of profitable ventures---crushed the market with a 65% rate of return...
(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) The Biden administration and leftist media once again tried to gaslight the American public with deceptive claims of a robust economy after the December jobs report showed that the government continued to grow and more people, overburdened by inflation, took second jobs working in the...
(Eli Pacheco, Headline USA) Reduced retail options from COVID-19-era lockdowns don’t seem to be going anywhere post-pandemic, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
Many consumers don’t mind---or, perhaps, didn’t notice. Coca-Cola offers half of the options it did before lockdowns. Companies, such as Newell Products, made these changes to...
(Headline USA) Four years after the last census, almost a dozen small communities in the Midwest are going to be counted again in hopes of getting a new grocery store or more state funding to build roads, fire stations and parks.
Eleven small cities in Illinois and Iowa are the...
(Kenneth Schrupp, The Center Square) Two of California’s leading Pizza Hut franchises are firing all of their delivery drivers—over 1,200 Californians—ahead of the state’s minimum wage increase to $20 per hour for fast food employees in April of 2024.
Under AB 1228, passed earlier in 2023, the fast food minimum wage will...
(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) It was revealed in a Dec. 27, 2023, study by Harvard University that major social media companies collectively made nearly $11 billion in advertising revenue from American minors in 2022.
To estimate the amount of money that Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, Twitter and YouTube generated off...