As accusations of voting irregularities mount, President Donald Trump’s legal team is descending on Pennsylvania and Georgia as well as multiple battleground states that have been called by media outlets for Joe Biden.
It will be an uphill battle for Trump to get to 270 electoral votes.
As of this writing...
(Headline USA) Judging by the plywood, it’s shaping up to be an Election Day like no other.
In downtown Washington, the sounds of hammers and power tools echoed through the streets Monday as workers boarded up dozens of businesses.
In New York City, businesses from Macy’s flagship store in Herald Square to...
(Headline USA) U.S. manufacturing posted a strong gain in October to the highest level in two years.
The Institute for Supply Management, an association of purchasing managers, said Monday that its manufacturing index rose by 3.9 percentage-points to a reading of 59.3% last month, up from 55.4% in September.
It was the...
(Clint Siegner, Money Metals News Service) Tomorrow is election day.
Virtually nothing else matters in the markets right now, and probably won’t until the results are in.
This year’s major complication is that while we may have early indications, it could easily take days or weeks to establish the victor.
If Donald Trump...
(Associated Press) Workers at the sprawling Remington factory in this upstate New York village took pride in a local gunmaking tradition stretching back to the days of flintlock rifles.
Now they're looking ahead with uncertainty.
Jacquie Sweeney and her husband were among almost 600 workers fired by the company this week,...
The email marketing firm Mailchimp announced adopted a policy, effective last Wednesday, that gives the company "sole discretion" to censor information.
Other online platforms, such as Google, Twitter and Facebook, have been less straightforward in their decisions to censor so-called "disinformation"---otherwise known as facts that contradict the prevailing narrative in...
(David Morgan, Money Metals News Service) There are two theories of money.
The first is that it should have intrinsic value, something people can hold, knowing that it has value in and of itself. The second is that it is lawful; that usually a government or King, mandates that their creation...
(Headline USA) Walmart says it has removed ammunition and firearms from displays at its U.S. stores, citing “civil unrest" in some areas.
The nation's largest retailer, based in Bentonville, Arkansas, sells firearms in about half of its 4,700 stores.
“We have seen some isolated civil unrest and as we have done on...
(Headline USA) The U.S. economy grew at a sizzling 33.1% annual rate in the July-September quarter — by far the largest quarterly gain on record — rebounding from an epic plunge in the spring, when the eruption of the coronavirus closed businesses and threw tens of millions out of work.
The...
(Headline USA) The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell last week to 751,000, the lowest since March.
Applications for unemployment aid fell 40,000 from the previous week, the Labor Department said Thursday.
They fell in 30 states, including big drops in California, Florida and Texas.
Claims rose in Arizona, Illinois, and Michigan.
The...
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, have spent $350 million to boost election turnout in heavily Democratic areas, which prompted lawsuits in four swing states.
Zuckerberg and Chan gave $250 million in September to the Center for Tech and Civic Life so that election officials could add...
The global coronavirus pandemic has accelerated several troubling trends already in force.
Among them are exponential debt growth, rising dependency on government, and scaled-up central bank interventions into markets and the economy.
Central bankers now appear poised to embark on their biggest power play ever.
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, in coordination...