(Headline USA) Inflation has changed the way many Americans shop. Now, some hope, those changes in consumer habits are helping bring down inflation.
However, some prices will remain obstinately high---if not permanently so---as Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has acknowledged, due to the Biden administration's slow reaction in addressing the issue,...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Net central bank gold buying exceeded 1,000 tons two straight years, and commodity analysts at ANZ Bank expect central bank gold demand to continue hot for at least the next six years.
central banks could purchase over 600 tons of gold annually until...
(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) BuzzFeed announced that it will lay off dozens of employees after selling Complex, just a little more than two years after buying the business.
According to BuzzFeed's Feb. 21, 2024, press release, the sale will form a “new and wide-ranging destination for the future of commerce...
(Headline USA) A store in San Francisco is requiring customers to shop with an employee escort in an effort to stop “rampant shoplifting.”
Fredericksen's Hardware & Paint manager Sam Black told KRON4 that smash and grab robberies have become so frequent that the store has become a “dangerous” environment for both...
Editor's note: This article was written with assistance from artificial intelligence but was reviewed, curated and augmented by humans.
(Ben Sellers and Copilot, Headline USA) The O’Keefe Media Group founded by former Project Veritas leader James O’Keefe, released a bombshell report Wednesday exposing the invasive practices at the Internal Revenue...
(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) Libs of TikTok on Friday exposed glaring evidence of Title VII workplace discrimination at Microsoft, which openly admitted in its 2023 Diversity and Inclusion report that it intentionally paid white people less in order to achieve greater "equity."
https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1760817144781021650
According to the report, the company penalized its...
(Mike Gleason, Money Metals News Service) As another potential government shutdown looms, precious metals markets continue to consolidate.
Although big price breakouts in gold and silver aren’t materializing quite yet, bulls are seeing some signs of gathering strength in the metals space. Gold has successfully tested the $2,000 level multiple...
(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) Vice Media, a leftist outlet backed by globalist oligarch George Soros, is set to temporarily shut down operations, laying off hundreds of staffers and ceasing online publication, CNN reported.
According to reports, the failing media company will undergo “fundamental changes” to its “strategic vision” as it...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) According to the latest Consumer Price Index (CPI) data, prices rose by 3.1 percent over the last year.
Based on my own experience at my local shopping center, that seems low.
And it may well be.
There are reasons to doubt the accuracy of CPI data.
According...
(Headline USA) Democratic states and cities have spent tens of millions of dollars allocated to them as COVID-19 relief on illegal immigrants, according to Fox News.
A review of state and local programs shows Democrat governors and mayors have spent at least $517 million on initiatives for “undocumented residents.”
The funding...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) The commercial real estate market continues to deteriorate in this high-interest rate environment, putting stress on the banking system.
The dollar amount of bad commercial real estate loans has ballooned beyond the loss reserves held by big banks to cover them as more and...
(Headline USA) The Biden administration announced this week it will transfer another $1.2 billion in student-loan debt from more than 150,000 borrowers to taxpayers at large, despite a Supreme Court ruling last year that made clear the executive branch lacks the authority to do so without congressional action.
President Joe...