(Clint Siegner, Money Metals Exchange) With Bitcoin making the news last week when the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) finally approved exchange traded funds, it’s a good time to review the topic again.
Bitcoin still offers the potential to serve as a form of honest money and to end-run the...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals Exchange) At its December meeting, the Federal Reserve effectively declared victory over inflation. They didn’t didn’t use those words, but that was the signal given by the policy trajectory laid out by the FOMC.
Is this victory dance premature?
Financial analyst Jim Grant thinks so.
In an interview...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry is set to leave the Biden administration by the winter of 2024 to prop up the struggling Biden campaign’s climate agenda, multiple media outlets reported Saturday.
Kerry, appointed by President Joe Biden as his chief climate representative since January...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Former President Donald Trump has been ordered to pay a $392,638 fee to the leftist New York Times after he unsuccessfully sued the newspaper over the disclosure of private tax and financial filings.
On Friday, New York Supreme Court Justice Robert Reed, a Democrat, granted the legal fees...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) The U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security is holding its second hearing next week as part of its efforts to bring impeachment proceedings against Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
The hearing will examine the human cost of the border crisis, and witnesses will...
(Deroy Murdock, Headline USA) President Joe Biden’s Commerce Department proposed on Dec. 7 a mechanism to invoke the so-called “march-in” clause of 1980’s bipartisan Bayh--Dole Act.
This would empower Uncle Sam to capture and control patents fully or partially funded with federal research grants, if bureaucrats disliked the prices or rollout speeds of their ensuing...
(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) On Jan. 11, 2024, Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., tried to justify the mass illegal immigration into the United States by making a racist argument.
During a House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security and Enforcement hearing, Nadler used his opening statement to criticize Republicans by claiming...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals Exchange) The Consumer Price Index for December came in hotter than expected but it’s a lot lower than it was a year ago. That means inflation is decreasing, right?
Not so fast.
It’s important to understand that the term “inflation” as bandied about by government people and...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The Biden-led Environmental Protection Agency failed to accurately disclose its taxpayer-funded grants in fiscal year 2022, raising concern about transparency on its spending, a scathing report found.
First reported by the Daily Caller on Thursday, the EPA's Office of the Inspector General exposed the Biden agency's failure...
(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...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals Exchange) There were more corporate bankruptcies in 2023 than there were during the pandemic of 2020.
Higher interest rates and massive levels of corporate debt drove the flurry of business failures last year.
There were 642 corporate bankruptcy filings in the U.S. in 2023, according to S&P...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals Exchange) No matter what you read about the December Consumer Price Index (CPI) data, you should keep one important fact top of mind: every number is far above the Federal Reserve's 2 percent target.
Given that fact, it would seem the death of price inflation seems...