(Tom Gantert, The Center Square) - The National Association of REALTORS announced Friday an agreement where it will end the 6% commission that is routine in home sales.
In the settlement with homeowners, the association will pay $418 million in damages and end litigation on the matter.
Experts say that Americans...
(Headline USA) Apple has agreed to pay $490 million to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging CEO Tim Cook misled investors about a steep downturn in iPhone's sales in China that culminated in a jarring revision to the company's revenue forecast.
The preliminary settlement filed Friday in Oakland, California, federal court...
(Headline USA) Joe Biden's administration has conditionally agreed to loan more than $2 billion to the company building a controversial lithium mine in Nevada with the largest known U.S. deposit of the metal critical to making batteries for electric vehicles key to his renewable energy agenda.
The U.S Energy Department...
(Money Metals News Service) In an insightful interview, Mike Maharrey of Money Metals delved into the intricacies of the current financial landscape with Greg Weldon, CEO of Weldon Financial, known affectionately in the industry as the "Gold Guru."
Their discussion shed light on a multitude of factors affecting the global...
(Mike Gleason, Money Metals Exchange) As inflation data comes in hotter than expected, markets are reassessing the outlook for rate cuts.
This week’s Consumer Price Index report showed the CPI rising 0.4% in February. That was the largest increase since last September. Higher gas prices and housing costs were major...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Former FBI trainee Seth Markin was sentenced to 15 months imprisonment Wednesday for participating in a $1.4 million insider trading scheme.
Markin’s sentenced was announced by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, which prosecuted the case. Markin was arrested in July...
(Money Metals News Service, Sound Money Defense League) The Wisconsin Senate has voted in favor of Assembly Bill 29 to end the sales tax on purchases of gold and silver. Joining the state Assembly, which overwhelmingly voted to approve this law last week, Senators voted 23-9 in favor of this...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) The housing market is not immune from inflationary woes as buyer’s purchasing power has significantly diminished in four years.
Home buyers in 2024 need 80% more income to purchase a home than they did in 2020, according to a new report by Zillow.
“The income needed...
(Money Metals News Service) In an enlightening episode of The Bob Murphy Show, host Bob Murphy delves into the world of sound money with Jp Cortez, the passionate Executive Director of The Sound Money Defense League.
The episode unfolds the narrative of Cortez's journey from a student intrigued by Austrian economics at...
(Headline USA) Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen admitted this week that she regrets dismissing inflation as “transitory” back in 2021.
“I regret saying it was transitory ," Janet Yellen told Fox Business correspondent Edward Lawrence.
"It has come down," she continued, before launching into some Clintonesque semantic wordplay to qualify her mea culpa....
(Headline USA) Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., lashed out at a Fox Business reporter who questioned him about a proposal to cut the work week by an entire business day while forcing companies to pay the difference.
"I can yell as loud as you," Sanders said, while repeatedly interrupting correspondent Hillary Vaughn.
It...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Responsible Statecraft published an analysis Wednesday showing that New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez’s legal defense fund is receiving donations from contributors linked to an Iranian group that used to be listed as a terror organization by the State Department.
Menendez and his wife face multiple charges...