(Headline USA) Kansas legislators signed off Wednesday on the state's largest-ever taxpayer-funded incentives to attract thousands of new jobs even though most didn't know the name of the company or what it plans to make.
The incentives would exceed $1 billion. The measure also cuts corporate income tax rates.
The Republican-controlled...
(Headline USA) Leftists attempting to smear libertarian personality Joe Rogan with bogus claims of racism already have their next mark: Tesla CEO Elon Musk, one of the richest men in the world, who has refused to be sufficiently cowed by the woke, anti-capitalist power structures that dominate America.
California sued...
(Tony Sifert, Headline USA) Supplemental unemployment benefits issued by the federal government between March 2020 and September 2021 as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic incentivized people not to work and created an "artificial shortage of labor," according to a report published by the Texas Public Policy Foundation.
The TPPF report...
By Stefan Gleason, Money Metals Exchange Geopolitical tensions are casting a pall over the Olympics in China amid rising fears of war with Russia. As nations prepare for conflict, investors should brace for potential fallout in asset markets.
Both China and Russia play hugely important roles in the global economy....
(Headline USA) The Freedom Convoy's blockade of the bridge between Canada and Detroit by protesters demanding an end to Canada’s COVID-19 restrictions forced the shutdown Wednesday of a Ford plant and began to have broader implications for the North American auto industry.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, meanwhile, continued to mount...
(Headline USA) With American consumers spending freely and many supply chains still snarled, year-over-year inflation may have notched yet another four-decade high in January.
The problem began as the federal government passed several rounds of economic stimulus that added money in the short term to consumers' pockets while also driving...
(Headline USA) A small group of cryptocurrency enthusiasts has an offer that they’re hoping U.S. cities can’t refuse.
The group City Coins is asking Miami and New York to accept the equivalent of millions of dollars in a new cryptocurrency, and at least some of the money is real: Last...
(Headline USA) When left-wing union activist Crystal Orozco got sick with the coronavirus last month, she missed nearly two weeks’ worth of her salary as a shift leader at a fast food restaurant and had to ask family members for a loan to help pay her rent.
“My check was...
(Stefan Gleason, Money Metals Exchange) The recent explosion in inflation rates caused by runaway debt-funded federal spending and Fed money printing has sparked renewed interest in state legislatures in the role gold and silver play in hedging against systemic risks.
With expanding concerns about financial leverage, debt defaults, volatility, and...
(Headline USA) Peter Thiel, a Silicon Valley billionaire and supporter of former President Donald Trump, is leaving the board of directors of Facebook parent company Meta.
The company said Monday that Thiel will stay on until Meta’s next shareholder meeting later this year, where he will not stand for reelection.
Thiel...
(Headline USA) Newly renamed Meta is investing heavily in its futuristic “metaverse” project, but for now, relies on advertising revenue for nearly all its income. So when it posted sharply higher costs but gave a weak revenue forecast late Wednesday, investors got spooked — and knocked almost $200 billion...
(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) Over 4.3 million Americans quit their jobs in the month of December, falling just shy of an American record, Just the News reported.
The previous record was also the previous month. In November of 2021, 4.5 million Americans quite their jobs.
Though the mainstream media has chosen to...