(Casey Harper, The Center Square) Over the past few years, more Americans were surprised to learn that their bank suddenly closed their accounts, purportedly for their political views.
The process is called debanking, when a bank chooses to kick a customer out, often without any notice or explanation.
Critics say the...
(José Niño, Headline USA) Vicki Iseman, a prominent lobbyist and owner of Iseman & Associates, is accused of falsifying records to obtain ineligible Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans for her lobbying firm.
According to a report by Court Watch, prosecutors with the U.S. Attorney’s Office of Eastern Virginia filed a...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) The federal government ran yet another massive budget deficit in February, pushing the total budget shortfall to over $1 trillion just five months into the fiscal year.
The federal government spent $307.01 billion more than it took in last month. That drove the cumulative deficit for...
(José Niño, Headline USA) Former CIA Director and Jeffrey Epstein associate William Burns is still betting big on American companies.
According to a report published by independent journalist Ken Klippenstein, Burns is “firmly invested in America” and has “scant investments (proportionally speaking) in foreign markets.”
Klippenstein obtained a copy of Burns’...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) American consumers continued to pile on debt in January, but at a moderating pace after the massive credit-card fueled spending spree for the holidays.
Retail sales fell by 0.9 percent in January, and this was reflected in the slowdown in the growth of consumer...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) More than $128 million of federal taxpayer money was spent on at least 341 grants to fund gender ideology initiatives under the Biden administration, according to an analysis of federal data by the American Principles Project.
In, “Funding Insanity: Federal Spending on Gender Ideology under Biden-Harris,” APP...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Capital One may soon face consequences for unilaterally debanking Republican accounts after the Trump Organization and members of the Trump family filed a lawsuit for shutting down their accounts in 2021.
Following the protests of Jan. 6, Capital One abruptly closed roughly 300 accounts belonging to several Trump...
(Sound Money Defense League, Money Metals News Service) Idaho yesterday formally ended state income taxes on gold and silver as part of its largest tax cut in state history.
House Bill 40, sponsored by House Speaker Mike Moyle and begrudgingly signed by the state’s liberal Republican governor Brad Little, provides...
(Maire Clayton, Headline USA) Hunter Biden wants a judge to throw out his laptop lawsuit after claiming he is now broke, according to the New York Post.
The 55-year-old tried to drop his lawsuit against a former aide to President Donald Trump. He previously accused the aide of publishing an online...
(Kyle Anzalone, Libertarian Institute) During the opening days of the second Donald Trump administration, the White House has worked to rein in and scale down government agencies that distribute foreign aid. The Inter-American Foundation (IAF) is next on the chopping block.
On Friday, Trump appointed Peter Marocco as head of...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) A former DC Homeland Security and U.S. Department of Agriculture was sentenced to 15 months in prison on Friday for perpetrating an $880,000 fraud on the COVID-era Paycheck Protection Program.
The defendant, Wendy Nicole Villatoro, 40, formerly of Washington, D.C., pleaded for leniency leading up to Friday’s sentencing—asking a judge for...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent called out CBS host Margaret Brennan on Sunday over the legacy media’s role in downplaying the economic turmoil under the Biden administration while suddenly sounding the alarm now that Donald Trump is president.
Brennan—who has repeatedly been criticized for regurgitating leftist talking points...