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Haitian Prime Minister Went MIA Amid Biden’s $100 Million Aid Pledge
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry reportedly landed in Puerto Rico on Tuesday after being denied entry to the neighboring Dominican Republic, according to local media reports. Henry’s whereabouts were unknown for several hours on Monday and Tuesday. Haiti is currently facing armed conflicts between the national police and gangs threatening genocide if…
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Fed Admits It Was Wrong – Kind Of
(Thomas L. Hogan, Money Metals News Service) During the pandemic recovery, inflation reached the highest rates in 40 years, largely driven by the Federal Reserve’s excessive monetary policy. The Fed got “behind the curve” by not raising its interest rate target fast enough, even once it became apparent its own policy was to blame. While…
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Is the U.S. Playing With Fire Using the Dollar as a Foreign Policy Weapon?
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) The United States has weaponized the dollar, leveraging it to achieve foreign policy objectives. But is the U.S. playing with fire? Is it setting itself up for significant blowback? In this episode of the Money Metals’ Midweek Memo, host Mike Maharrey explains how the U.S. has turned the dollar…
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Bitcoin Briefly Hits All-Time High, Less than 2 Yrs after FTX Scandal
(Headline USA) Bitcoin has hit an all-time high less than two years after the collapse of the crypto exchange FTX severely damaged faith in digital currencies and sent prices plunging. The world’s largest cryptocurrency jumped 4% this week and briefly surpassed $68,800 Tuesday, according to CoinMarketCap. That’s just above bitcoin’s previous record set in November 2021. The volatile asset soon…
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Fed’s Powell: Rate Cuts Likely This Year, but More Evidence Is Needed
(Headline USA) With former President Donald Trump having already announced last month that he would not keep Jerome Powell as Federal Reserve chairman, Tuesday’s GOP primary blowout may have given Powell all the evidence he needed that it wasn’t the right time to cut interest rates and jumpstart the economy—just yet. That will likely be…
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Discord Leaker Jack Teixeira Sentenced to at Least 11 Years for Exposing Ukraine Sham
(Headline USA) Massachusetts Air National Guard member Jack Teixeira pleaded guilty on Monday to leaking highly classified military documents about the war in Ukraine under a deal with prosecutors that calls for him to serve at least 11 years in prison. While some leakers, such as transgender Wikileaks whistleblower Chelsea Manning, have been celebrated by the Left…
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Biden, Infamous for Donor-Funded Travel, Criticizes Justice Thomas’s Vacations
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) President Joe Biden criticized Justice Clarence Thomas for yacht trips covered by a conservative friend, despite his own history of enjoying extravagant vacations sponsored by donors. In an interview published Monday by the New Yorker magazine, Biden referred to Thomas as “the guy who likes to spend a lot of time on…
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WATCH: CO Secretary of State Nearly Cries Over Trump SCOTUS Decision
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold appeared visibly disappointed that the Supreme Court derailed on Monday her state’s plot to prevent former President Donald Trump from appearing on the Republican primary ballot. In a Monday interview on MSNBC Reports with host Katy Tur, Griswold expressed her lament that voters, rather than government…
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‘She’s Running’: Clinton and Hubby Make 2024 Comeback
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Twice-failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and impeached former President Bill Clinton are “quietly” and “steadily” staging a comeback ahead of the 2024 presidential election, according to a lengthy profile published by the New Yorker on Monday. The former secretary of state and her husband are covertly supporting the scandal-ridden re-election campaign of…
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CNN’s Jake Tapper Presses Haley over Trump ‘Erection’
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) CNN anchor Jake Tapper appeared to have fantasized about GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump’s “erection” during a Monday interview with former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley. While discussing the overturning of the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to bar Donald Trump from appearing on the state’s primary ballot, Tapper mistakenly referred to Trump’s “erection”…
