Janet Yellen, President Joe Biden’s Treasury Secretary, expressed the Biden administration’s support for “global minimum corporate tax,” the Associated Press reported.
According to Yellen, the Biden administration would work with the Group of Twenty, a conglomeration of twenty so-called “advanced” nations, to enforce the proposed global taxation.
The Treasury Secretary, who...
(Clint Siegner, Money Metals News Service) Central bankers and their comrades in Washington DC changed course in 2020. The policy shifted from “print money and hand it to Wall Street” to “helicopter money” in the form of direct payments and loans to citizens.
The fiscal stimulus, like the Fed’s monetary stimulus...
A group of Georgia Republicans circulated a letter asking their colleagues to remove Coca-Cola products from their offices in response to the company’s criticism of the state’s new election integrity law.
In a letter addressed to the soft drink company, eight lawmakers from the state House accused the company of...
(Associated Press) Amazon is sorry for tweeting about peeing.
The company apologized in a late Friday blog post for a tweet it sent to a congressman more than a week ago denying that its employees work so hard they must urinate in empty water bottles.
It also admitted that some delivery drivers...
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp dismissed the corporate backlash to the state’s new election integrity law, saying he’s “glad to deal with it.”
“If they want to have a debate about the merits and the facts of the bill, then we should do that,” Kemp told CNBC on Wednesday.
Facing boycott pressure...
Longtime gold bashers are gloating over the precious metal’s recent price slump.
Gold prices have declined more than 10% in the first quarter of 2021.
But the perma-bears shouldn’t feel vindicated. After all, anyone who heeded their advice missed out on gold’s record run in 2020 – and on many years...
(Headline USA) It may not have taken much for virtue-signaling leftist corporations like Coca-Cola to speak out against Georgia's newly passed laws strengthening election integrity.
But the threat of boycotts and negative push-back from well-funded activist leaders, including those rooted in Atlanta's minority community, helped seal the deal.
Some of Georgia's...
(Headline USA) The CEO of Georgia-based Delta Air Lines said Wednesday that the state’s new election law overhaul is “unacceptable” and “based on a lie,” after the company faced criticism that it didn’t speak out forcefully enough in opposition to the bill when it was being considered by the state’s...
(Jp Cortez, Sound Money Defense League) U.S. Representative Alex Mooney (R-WV) on Tuesday re-introduced sound money legislation to remove all federal income taxation from gold and silver coins and bullion.
The Monetary Metals Tax Neutrality Act (H.R. 2284) backed by the Sound Money Defense League and free-market activists – would clarify that the...
(Brad Polumbo, Foundation for Economic Education) When COVID-19 first came to our shores, it presented policymakers and elected officials with a crisis like nothing in living memory.
In the year since, states have taken markedly different approaches to pandemic policy. Some, like New York, embraced sweeping government lockdowns and top-down mandates...
(Headline USA) Critics of Georgia's new Republican-backed election law issued fresh calls Monday to boycott some of the state's largest businesses for not speaking out more forcefully against the law, a day after advocacy organizations filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging it.
In a letter to more than 90,000...
The federal government is spending and redistributing newly created cash so rapidly, it’s becoming difficult to keep track of which trillions are going where.
This week, President Joe Biden will pitch a $3 trillion “green” infrastructure package.
That’s on top of the $1.9 trillion economic “relief” bill he recently signed into...