(Headline USA) The House Ethics Committee on Friday told Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to make additional payments for her attendance at the 2021 Met Fashion Gala, where she drew attention for wearing a dress adorned with the message “tax the rich."
The ethics panel, which found the New York Democrat had underpaid...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Where do we get our gold?
Last year, mines globally produced an estimated 3,661 tonnes of gold. It was a new record, but only 3 tonnes higher than the previous record set in 2018.
Between 1970 and 2019, gold production generally increased year after year....
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte Macron, on Wednesday filed a longshot 22-count defamation lawsuit against popular podcaster Candace Owens in a Delaware court.
The lawsuit aims to squash online rumors claiming Brigitte was born a biological man. However, Owens doubled down on her claims...
(Tom Joyce, The Center Square) A new report says BlackRock, the world’s largest investment firm, is still acting against fossil fuel companies in violation of Texas law, even though the company was recently removed from the state’s boycott list.
Texas passed a law in 2021 called Senate Bill 13. It’s aimed at...
(Kyle Anzalone, Libertarian Institute) An amendment that would have cut $500 million in military aid to Israel failed in the House. Tel Aviv is conducting a genocide that is largely funded by Washington.
The amendment was introduced by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), who argued that Israel should receive less...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) A federal appeals court panel has rejected Hunter Biden’s attempt to toss out a case that could force him to pay the attorney's fees to the non-profit Marco Polo.
Hunter had sued Marco Polo, a non-profit that published the contents of the infamous “Laptop from Hell,” but...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) One of the top candidates to succeed Jerome Powell at the Federal Reserve said the central bank needs to coordinate more closely with the U.S. Treasury and advocated for a much more inflationary monetary policy.
Kevin Warsh served as a Federal Reserve governor from...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) A lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology once hosted a panel that seemingly endorsed the idea of giving “child-size sex robots” to sex offenders, claiming it may keep them from abusing real children.
Disturbingly, the same MIT Media Lab once accepted funding from convicted pedophile...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) As central banks scramble to increase their gold reserves, many are turning to domestic mine production to save money, support local industry, and expand their reserves.
Central banks have increased their gold holdings by over 1,000 tonnes for three straight years. To put that...
(Headline USA) A $8 billion class action investors’ lawsuit against Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and company leaders — current and former — begins Wednesday, with claims stemming from the 2018 privacy scandal involving the Cambridge Analytica political consulting firm.
Investors allege in their lawsuit that Meta did not fully disclose the risks that Facebook users’...
(Headline USA) A former D.C. Council member is returning to his seat, five months after he was kicked out for his involvement in a federal bribery investigation.
Trayon White defeated three challengers in a special election Tuesday to fill the Ward 8 council seat that has been vacant since his expulsion...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Based on the latest Consumer Price Index (CPI) data, prices showed signs of creeping higher in June. However, there were enough dovish points in the data to support those pushing for looser monetary policy.
The headline annual CPI spiked from 2.4 percent in May...