(Headline USA) A Florida woman has been charged with threatening her health insurance provider during a phone conversation after police say she uttered the same words found on the bullet casings used in the killing of an insurance executive in New York.
Briana Boston, 42, told a representative of Blue...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) They threw the book at him. I hope it hurt.
A Maryland circuit court judge sentenced Ravinklejeet Mathon, 26, to 10 years in prison for his part in an elaborate gold scam. Five years of the sentence was suspended, but he will still likely serve...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) African banks are opening branches in Chinese cities in an effort to tap into growing trade ties between African nations and China.
Meanwhile, China is encouraging more yuan-based transactions, hoping to push the dollar to the sidelines.
In October, Access Bank UK, a Nigerian Access...
(Chris Powell, Money Metals News Service) At long last, complaints of gold price manipulation and suppression got some respect this week from the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum, a London-based group connected with central banks.
The group published a long paper heralding gold's restoration to the center of the...
(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, appointed by Joe Biden, recently apologized for ruining the American economy.
Fox News reported that Yellen apologized during the Wall Street Journal's CEO Council Summit after Greg Ip, the Journal's chief economic commentator, said that Biden and Yellen are leaving...
(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) The founders of Meta and Amazon recently showed Americans that they are willing to continue sucking up to President-elect Donald Trump to be on his good side, which would benefit their businesses.
The Wall Street Journal reported that Mark Zuckerberg's Meta had contributed $1 million to...
( Chris Wade, The Center Square) New York's population could decline by more than 2 million people over the next 25 years as fewer people are born in the state and more people move out, according to a new report.
https://twitter.com/PADCornell/status/1856784358255866364
The study by Cornell University's Jeb E. Brooks School of...
(Maire Clayton, Headline USA) Google was met with backlash after releasing a "woke" Christmas ad featuring a nonbinary influencer wearing female clothing.
The ad featured TikTok star Cyrus Veyssi and had the influencer searching for skincare products through Google shopping.
"This winter dryness is not it," Veyssi said. "Especially when I...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Through the first two months of fiscal 2025, the Biden administration managed to run a $624.21 billion budget. It's the biggest shortfall to start a year on record.
The November deficit came in at $366.76 billion, according to the Monthly Treasury Report. That was 16.8 percent...
(Julianna Frieman, Headline USA) Lindy Li, a member of the Democratic National Committee’s finance committee, said Wednesday on NewsNation that her party’s donors “feel discarded” as top Democrats ignore them and divert their attention to holiday festivities.
Li, who donated to the Harris campaign, revealed that many Democrat donors told her...
(Julianna Frieman, Headline USA) Top Democrats threatened to withhold funding for President Joe Biden’s future presidential library over the pardon of first son Hunter Biden, Axios reported Thursday.
The report indicates that high-profile Democrats are “furious” about Biden’s decision to pardon his son, which critics have panned as a short-sighted and...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) It seems the best we can hope for on the inflation front is a CPI report “in line with forecasts.”
The mainstream media was giddy, and the markets responded positively to the November CPI report because every metric came in as expected.
But the report...