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With the past few years having been so turbulent, there was hope that 2023 would bring a return to normalcy After COVID, a disputed election, a Russian invasion of Ukraine, and a year that saw both...
Political scandals rarely give rise to either winners or losers But in the wake of yet another probe into scandal-prone Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ), there was a big winner, and it was… gold Yes,...
How often do you think about the Roman Empire Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past month, you know that the answer, at least for men, is every day In all seriousness though, we...
Things appear to be coming down to the wire in the latest debt ceiling negotiations, as the US government may be within weeks of running out of options for avoiding default Now both sides are...
Death and taxes aren’t the only two things that are certain in life The third is that Washington just can’t figure out how not to spend like a drunken sailor Once again, the federal government...
In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, big US banks faced numerous calls to be broken up After a $700 billion bailout and fears that the financial system had been on the verge of collapse,...
The concept of the digital dollar is something that seems to have gone from discussion to potential implementation quicker than anyone thought possible While the idea of a digital dollar, a central...
Well, the results are in, or at least most of them anyway And the much talked about and hoped for red wave didn’t materialize For a lot of voters, that was a disappointment And not only could it be...
With last week’s decision to hike the federal funds rate another 75 basis points, the Federal Reserve disappointed those hoping for only a 50 basis point increase And Fed Chairman Jay Powell threw...
It seems that every day continues to bring more bad news about the future of the economy and the state of Americans’ financial health With inflation remaining elevated, and the Fed continuing to...
Perhaps nothing defined the absurdity of the Obama era as much as President Obama’s reception of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009 Having been in power for less than eight months at the time he...
A lot has been written in the news recently about the IRS deciding to increase its enforcement of tax laws Because when the American people are suffering under inflation at 40-year highs, and the...
