(By Adam Andrzejewski, RealClear Wire) To combat the recent spike in housing costs, California sponsored a program to help prospective first-time home buyers purchase a home by providing financing for the down payment. Unfortunately, the $300 million program ran out of money in less than two weeks, after only...
(By Alfredo Ortiz, RealClear Wire) President Biden claimed to support small businesses during National Small Business Week, but his actions spoke louder than words. Biden is waging war on small businesses, hitting them hard with new regulations, taxes and inflation.
At the same time Biden gave his pro-small business remarks, First Republic Bank...
(By Jon Miltimore, FEE) Federal regulators recently seized the struggling First Republic Bank on Monday, which they promptly sold to JPMorgan Chase. Reports show First Republic had some $230 billion in financial assets which quickly evaporated, making it the second largest bank collapse in US history, exceeding the recent...
(National Legal and Policy Center) During the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting on Saturday in Omaha, Peter Flaherty, chairman of the National Legal and Policy Center, had his microphone cut, was arrested and forcibly removed from the arena.
NLPC was the sponsor of Proposal #8 to “require hereafter that two separate people...
(Headline USA) The boycott of Anheuser--Busch, the parent company of Bud Light, continues to grow in the wake of its controversial partnership with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney.
According to reports, at least five Chicago gay bars announced that they will no longer sell Anheuser--Busch products because of the way the...
(By Adam Andrzejewski, RealClear Wire) Rising raw material prices are hitting the United States Mint hard. It now costs more than 2.5 cents to make a penny, and more than 10 cents to make a nickel, resulting in a net loss of $171 million to mint these coins in...
(By Casey Harper, The Center Square) Small business week came and went this week, and small businesses took the opportunity to raise a range of concerns about the economy and their future.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce released a report on the labor market this week, saying that “every state...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, is torching President Joe Biden’s unwillingness to negotiate over increasing the debt ceiling and called on the U.S. Congress to impeach the Democrat president if he is implicated in Hunter Biden’s shady foreign business schemes.
In an interview with Fox News’s Hannity, Cruz...
(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) Nineteen Republican state attorneys general claimed on Tuesday that one of the biggest American banks -- JPMorgan Chase -- “de-banked” conservative and religious organizations for their values and principles.
According to a letter that was provided to the Daily Wire, the officials stated that the National...
(By Casey Harper, The Center Square) The U.S. Federal Reserve Board Wednesday announced another increase to the federal funds rate, inching the target range up to 5% to 5.25%, an increase of a quarter of a point.
Wednesday’s announcement is the tenth rate hike since March 2022.
“We are prepared to...
(By Casey Harper, The Center Square) A new federal rule that would charge higher fees to home buyers with good credit to help subsidize those with poor credit goes into effect Monday.
The Federal Housing Finance Agency announced in January it would increase Loan-Level Price Adjustment fees for mortgage borrowers...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) President Joe Biden will meet with House Speaker Kevin McCarty on May 9 to speak about the debt ceiling but he has made clear that he will not negotiate lowering the nation’s debt weeks before the federal government runs out of cash to pay its bill.
The...