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As Bill Gates Leads Vaccine Push, Microsoft Profits Soar in Pandemic

(Headline USA) Microsoft’s founder, Bill Gates, has emerged as one of the leading advocates for vaccination, with many remaining suspicious of them for that reason alone. Gates's philanthropy helped fund some of the pharmaceutical research. As a result, his name has been linked to conspiratorial concerns about nanobots being injected...

Biden Signs Exec. Order to Raise Minimum Wage to $15 for Federal Contractors

(Headline USA) President Joe Biden is set to sign an executive order to increase the minimum wage to $15 an hour for federal contractors, providing a pay bump to hundreds of thousands of workers. Biden administration officials said, without evidence, that the higher wages would lead to greater worker productivity, claiming...

STUDY: Key Biden Policy Will Reduce Annual Household Income By $1,650

(Brad Polumbo, Foundation for Economic Education) President Joe Biden is touting his new $2.3 trillion+ spending plan as a boon to workers, even dubbing it the “American Jobs Act.” But there’s reason to believe that a key provision in Biden’s plan would result in a sizable drop in income for millions...

Bitcoin’s Volatility Raises Questions that Gold Answers

Is Bitcoin losing its luster? Prices for the cryptocurrency have slid from a high of over $64,000 on April 14th to under $48,000 in trading this past weekend. The 25% sell-off would be akin to a crash in the S&P 500. But for crypto markets, that kind of volatility is fairly...

States With the Lowest Tax Burdens Saw Population Growth Last Year

(Ted O'Neil, The Center Square) All but one of the 10 most tax-friendly states experienced gains in population from 2019 to 2020, according to a new analysis from MoneyGeek, a personal finance technology company located in San Francisco. Conversely, seven of the 10 least tax-friendly states saw a decrease in population...

Levi’s CEO: Ga. Legislation and 350 Other Voting Laws Are ‘Racist & Undemocratic’

Levi Strauss CEO Chip Bergh denounced Georgia's voting-integrity law as "racist and undemocratic," and he endorsed radical leftist legislation that would obliterate all election protections, the National Center for Public Policy Research reported. At the San Francisco-based company's annual shareholder meeting, Bergh also condemned as racist and undemocratic "350 bills...

WHISTLEBLOWER: Amazon Forces Employees to Confess ‘Unconscious Racial Bias’

Amazon regularly forces its employees to confess their “unconscious racial bias” in meetings with other employees, according to a company whistleblower. About once a month, Amazon holds “town halls” where vice presidents of the company are “forced to talk about how they grew up with unconscious biases” and “white privilege,”...

Blue State Govs. Urge Businesses to Speak Out Against Election Laws

(David Bass, Carolina Journal) North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper is leading a nationwide effort in cooperation with Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to encourage business leaders to publicly oppose states that pass election-reform laws. “We are asking the business leaders in our states, and throughout the country, to add their voices to...

Biden’s ‘Green Reset’ Could Be Great for Silver

As top officials around the world convene this week for a “climate summit,” President Joe Biden’s administration is planning the most radical expansion of government’s role in the economy since FDR’s New Deal. The objective is nothing short of transitioning the entire U.S. and world economy to “clean energy” –...

The Next Key Level for Gold

Gold rallied last week toward the top of a down-trending channel that has been in force since prices peaked last summer. A breakout attempt in early January failed. The gold market subsequently slumped to a potential double-bottom low in March around $1,675/oz. The $1,800 level now looms as a critical technical...

Ark. Senate Votes to Remove Sales Taxation from Gold & Silver

(Jp Cortez, Sound Money Defense League) The Arkansas Senate just overwhelmingly approved a bill which helps Natural State citizens protect themselves from federal dollar devaluation. Introduced by Senator Mark Johnson and Representative Delia Haak, Senate Bill 336 removes sales and use tax on purchases of gold, silver, platinum, and palladium coins and bullion in Arkansas. Arkansas Senators...

Black Activists Call for ‘Insane’ Boycott of Home Depot over Ga. Election Law

Georgia leaders representing more than 1,000 churches in the state encouraged leftists to boycott Home Depot, arguing the company didn’t denounce Georgia’s new election-integrity law in strong enough terms. "A boycott is not something we wanted to do, but now it is something that we must do," Bishop Reginald Jackson...
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