(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...
(Headline USA) Rep. Thomas Massie has stockpiled more than $1.7 million for his re-election bid as the Kentucky Republican gears up to face President Donald Trump's vaunted political operation, Massie's campaign announced Monday.
Massie was one of two House Republicans to vote against Trump's massive tax bill and he said Trump...
(Elyse Apel, The Center Square) Investigations continue after a Gov. Gretchen Whitmer political appointee and donor was set to receive $20 million of taxpayer funding for her Oakland County-based nonprofit.
Senate Republican Leader Aric Nesbitt, R-Lawton, is calling for a federal investigation into the matter, sending a letter to U.S....
(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) Government revenue exceeded government spending in the month of June due to increased revenue from tariffs, according to the Department of the Treasury.
The department’s monthly report, released Friday, showed that the federal government collected $526 billion in revenue and posted $499 billion in outlets,...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., reportedly said this week that he provided the Justice Department with “actionable” information about Jeffrey Epstein’s relationship with a prominent billionaire and an untold number of Wall Street banks—but the DOJ hasn’t doing anything with the info.
“I've handed the Trump administration...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) After a one-off surge in April, consumer borrowing tanked again in May, a sign that Americans might be close to tapping out as they hit their credit card limits.
Locked at home and flush with stimulus money, Americans paid down their credit card debt...