(Headline USA) The New York City Marathon organizers will soon have to pay a bridge toll, just like every other commuter, if New York transit officials have their way.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is demanding the New York Road Runners, organizers of the venerable race generally held the first Sunday of each...
(Headline USA) In a scathing indictment of Microsoft corporate security and transparency, a Biden administration-appointed review board issued a report Tuesday saying “a cascade of errors” by the tech giant let state-backed Chinese cyber operators break into email accounts of senior U.S. officials including Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo.
The Cyber Safety Review...
(Headline USA) Disney shareholders have rallied behind longtime CEO Robert Iger, voting Wednesday to rebuff billionaire investor Nelson Peltz and his ally, former Disney Chief Financial Officer Jay Rasulo, who had sought seats on the company’s board.
Despite facing boycotts and other negative publicity surrounding its political agenda, the the woke...
(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...