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...
The Joe Biden administration is reportedly working with travel and technology companies to create a coronavirus vaccine passport that some businesses might start to require.
An administration official told CNN that multiple agencies are working to develop health credentials that Americans would use as proof of vaccination.
Several industries considering requiring...
Four leading Republican Senators are calling on several top-tier businesses to condemn Democrats for contesting the election results in Iowa's 2nd Congressional District.
The House Administration Committee will review Iowa’s 2nd Congressional district's November election results, where Republican Mariannette Miller-Meeks defeated Democrat Rita Hart by six votes.
The vote has been...
A group of high-powered New York investment and business leaders are raising the alarm about a tax hike that they say could jeopardize New York City’s economy.
In a letter to embattled New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and Democrats in the state legislative bodies, 250 CEOs and business leaders warn that...
(Associated Press) Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell compared the actions taken by the central bank early in the pandemic as the economy barreled toward a recession to British efforts in World War II to evacuate troops at Dunkirk.
Asked Thursday in an NPR interview whether would have anything different back in...