New York business owners slammed Gov. Andrew Cuomo after he announced that thousands of Buffalo Bills fans would be allowed to attend the upcoming playoff game while businesses are forced to remain closed.
Cuomo announced last week that he would make an exception to his shutdown order so that he...
(Headline USA) Democrat Joe Biden’s choice to be Treasury secretary, Janet Yellen, collected more than $7 million in speaking fees over the past two years from major financial firms and tech giants.
Despite evidence of widespread vote fraud, Biden has been declared by many to be the presumptive winner of...
Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., rejected an amendment pushed by Democrats and President Donald Trump to raise the stimulus checks from $600 to $2,000, calling it a path towards a “guaranteed minimum income.”
Senate Republicans stalled the effort to increase the latest coronavirus relief package on Tuesday, citing concerns about the...
(Headline USA) Several plant managers for a major food distributor have been canceled by former Attorney General Eric Holder for making light of the coronavirus pandemic at the workplace.
Don Merschbrock---a former night manager at the plant in Waterloo, Iowa---was among the seven supervisors fired for betting on how many...
Chain retailers and restaurants fled New York City in record numbers in 2020, accelerating a trend that began in 2018, the New York Post reported.
The Center for an Urban Future's 2020 "State of the Chains" report found that 1,057 chain stores in the city closed their doors this year,...
(Sound Money Defense League) Wyoming, Texas, and Utah are the three most pro-sound money states in the United States, according to the 2020 Sound Money Index.
Released today, the Sound Money Index is the first index of its kind and uses 12 different criteria to determine which states maintain the most...
(Clint Siegner, Money Metals News Service) The world’s largest gold exchange traded fund (ETF) seems to be having a lot of trouble when it comes to accounting.
The SPDR Gold Trust (GLD) recently appointed its 6th chief financial officer since 2014. And the problem of finding and keeping executives who are...
(Jon Miltimore, Foundation for Economic Education) Rep. Thomas Suozzi’s message to the (likely) soon-to-be departing financial firm Goldman Sachs had the sound of an 80s love ballad: don’t go, baby.
“Please don’t leave us,” the New York congressman said on CNBC following news that the multibillion-dollar investment bank is likely to...
(Headline USA) A California judge cleared the way Thursday for all restaurants in San Diego County to resume on-site dining, marking a major, if temporary, setback to the governor’s stay-at-home order to "slow the spread" of the coronavirus before the state's intensive care units run out of beds.
Gov. Gavin Newsom...
Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., said the federal government could afford to send Americans another round of $1,200 checks if Congress repeals Trump's tax cuts and forces billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos to pay up, Yahoo! Finance reported.
"I’m hearing as we try to debate this COVID relief package that we...
Did the Federal Reserve just usher in the next phase of the U.S. dollar’s decline?
On Wednesday, the central bank recommitted to leaving its benchmark interest rate near zero for the foreseeable future.
Fed officials also vowed to keep pumping cash into financial markets.
Following Fed chairman Jerome Powell’s remarks, the wavering...
(Headline USA) In the Southern California oceanside city of Manhattan Beach, one arm of government is urging residents to stay home except for essential needs while another is encouraging them to get out and shop and even providing places where they can sit down to relax, eat takeout and watch...