(Headline USA) When Califorina leftists voted to impose a $20-per-hour minimum wage for fast-food workers, many warned of the unintended consequences, including massive price hikes on food in an already inflationary economy.
That, however, may have been more of a feature than a glitch for the nanny state, which has...
(Headline USA) Drawing inspiration from the Obama-era "Operation Choke Point" and the controversial ESG investing movement, the Biden administration is using a sticks-and-carrots approach to force banks to follow its aggressively woke agenda.
On one hand, it has threatned banks with fines and investigations for insufficient money-lending to high-risk minority...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Many prominent American founders warned us about paper money.
Thomas Paine may have summed it up best:
“The evils of paper money have no end.”
In an 1814 letter to Thomas Cooper, Thomas Jefferson was prophetic.
“Every thing predicted by the enemies of banks, in the beginning,...
(Headline USA) The Vermont Legislature advanced legislation this week requiring big fossil fuel companies pay a share of the damage caused by climate change after the state suffered catastrophic summer flooding and damage from other natural disasters.
The Democrat-led state Senate, which includes only seven Republicans among its 30 members, was...
(Headline USA) Donald Trump is suing two co-founders of Trump Media & Technology Group, the newly public parent company of his Truth Social platform, arguing that they should forfeit their stock in the company because they set it up improperly.
The former U.S. president's lawsuit, which was filed on March 24 in...
(National Legal and Policy Center) At the annual shareholder meeting of the Walt Disney Company on Wednesday, one of its shareholders, National Legal and Policy Center, teamed up with healthcare accountability group Do No Harm to present a proposal addressing the hypocrisy in the woke company's transgender policy and...
(Money Metals News Service) Reflecting on his childhood in this episode of Money Metals’ Midweek Memo, host Mike Maharrey recalls those playground disputes where challenges were met with the retort, "Oh yeah? What are you going to do about it?!"
This question isn't merely child's play; it's fundamentally about accountability. If one...
(Headline USA) Google has agreed to purge billions of records containing personal information collected from more than 136 million people in the U.S. surfing the internet through its Chrome web browser.
The massive housecleaning comes as part of a settlement in a lawsuit accusing the search giant of illegal surveillance.
The...
(Headline USA) Anti-smoking groups sued the U.S. government Tuesday over a long-awaited ban on menthol cigarettes, which has been idling at the White House for months.
The lawsuit is the latest effort to force the government to ban menthols, which are disproportionately used by black smokers and young people---two groups that have...
(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) A super-PAC supporting Donald Trump launched a new website that allows people to compare Trump-era grocery prices to the current high prices under Joe Biden's administration.
The Biden-Mart.com website that was created by the Make America Great Again Inc. PAC includes over two dozen common grocery items...
(Headline USA) Tax season can come with several headaches, from gathering documents to finding the time to sit down and file.
But one pain that you want to avoid is falling for a tax scam.
Year-round, scammers look for ways to trick people into giving them money or personal information.
There are several common types...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Gold broke another intraday record on Monday. This continues the gold bull run that has been ongoing for several weeks.
But there is something else happening that’s quite unusual.
Treasury bond yields are also rising.
As gold was setting records on Monday, yields on the long...