(Kenneth Schrupp, The Center Square) Two of California’s leading Pizza Hut franchises are firing all of their delivery drivers—over 1,200 Californians—ahead of the state’s minimum wage increase to $20 per hour for fast food employees in April of 2024.
Under AB 1228, passed earlier in 2023, the fast food minimum wage will...
(Casey Harper, The Center Square) Americans pay hundreds of dollars per year in taxes on their wireless “family plan” for their cell phones.
The Tax Foundation research shows the average American household with four phones would pay about $300 per year in taxes on a family plan costing $100 per...
(Stefan Gleason, Money Metals News Service) The gold market is poised to make history in 2024. It enters the New Year within striking distance of new all-time highs.
How high will gold go? Much depends on how low interest rates and the U.S. dollar go.
The Federal Reserve ended its rate hiking...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) There are three factors driving gold bulls as we move into the new year – the demand factor, the Fed factor, and the January factor.
Gold just wrapped up its best year since 2020 with a 13 percent gain, and the yellow metal has...
(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) It was revealed in a Dec. 27, 2023, study by Harvard University that major social media companies collectively made nearly $11 billion in advertising revenue from American minors in 2022.
To estimate the amount of money that Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, Twitter and YouTube generated off...
(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) Two university professors lost their jobs after their hatred toward Jews was revealed.
The first professor was Stanford University’s newly formed Anti-Semitism Committee’s co-chair who resigned after he was called out for aligning himself with anti-Israel groups and writing a paper in 2017, in which he...
(David Mastio, The Center Square) - In 2024, as the possibility of a Donald Trump/Joe Biden presidential rematch looks more and more possible, the University of California system will take on a prominent role in national politics, not for cutting edge political science research, legal theories or technology, but...
(Kevin Bessler, The Center Square) – A new animal welfare law going into effect in California Jan. 1 that mandates space requirements for pigs, cows and chickens has some livestock farmers on edge.
Proposition 12 prohibits sales in California of pork, veal and eggs from livestock whose confinement doesn't meet...
(Headline USA) Consulting firm McKinsey and Co. has agreed to pay $78 million to settle claims from insurers and health care funds that its work with drug companies helped fuel an opioid addiction crisis.
The agreement was revealed late Friday in documents filed in federal court in San Francisco. The...
(Carleen Johnson, The Center Square) – Washington drivers may see new stickers on the fuel pump next year when filling up their gas tanks.
A state lawmaker is backing legislation in the form of House Bill 2050 that would require the Washington Department of Agriculture to amend the gas tax stickers...
(Headline USA) More than 700,000 illegal immigrants living in California will gain access to “free” health care on Monday.
It will eventually cost the state about $3.1 billion per year.
Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom and lawmakers agreed in 2022 to provide health care access to all low-income adults regardless of their...
By Mike Gleason
On this final week of trading for 2023, gold is set to put in its highest ever annual close.
The gold price has been capped at around the $2,100 level since trading just shy of it in May. Whenever prices threaten to break out, institutional sell orders on...