Personal Finance
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Small Businesses Tell Congress to Stop Tax Hike
(Casey Harper, The Center Square) A coalition of small businesses are calling on Congress to make the 20% small business tax deduction permanent. Small business leaders visited Washington, D.C. this week to call on lawmakers to pass the Main Street Tax Certainty Act, a bill that would prevent the expiration of a small business tax…
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The “Financial Coup” That Seized America
(Peter St. Onge, Money Metals News Service) In the wake of the 2008 Financial Crisis, former chief economist of the IMF Simon Johnson warned that the same dysfunctional policies he saw in his basketcase banana republics had taken hold in the United States. Johnson warned that if America didn’t act fast, we would plunge into…
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Kamala Appears Confused When Asked How She’ll Pay for Her Policies
(Headline USA) Vice President Kamala Harris appeared genuinely confused when asked this week how she would secure funding for her proposals if Republicans still control Congress after November’s election. Harris sat down with MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle on Wednesday for her second ever solo interview. At one point, Ruhle asked Harris how she would find the…
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Israel Considers Limiting Ownership of Gold and Silver, Eliminating Large-Denomination Notes in War on Cash
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Israel appears to be poised to take the war on cash to another level by eliminating the highest denomination of Israeli currency and limiting private ownership of gold and silver. According to a report by YNetNews.com, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has asked high-ranking government officials to discuss the elimination of…
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Money Metals’ New “Fort Knox” Depository Profiled on Industry TV Show
(Money Metals News Service) In a recent TV interview, Jp Cortez, Executive Director of Money Metals’ Sound Money Defense League, highlighted the opening of the largest gold depository in North America, a major industry development supporting the growing sound money movement in the U.S. He also discussed Money Metals’ recent legislative victories in several states…
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Chicago Fed President Goolsbee Wants to Declare Pennies Nickels
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) A recent comment by Chicago Federal Reserve President Austan Goolsbee gives you a glimpse into how Fed people think and helps to explain exactly why you’re paying more for everything. It’s almost as if inflating was hardwired into Fed members’ brains. Goolsbee recently sat down with Illinois Treasurer Mike Frerichs during…
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Hogan’s Maryland Opponent Exposed for Tax Fraud While Supporting Tax Hikes
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) “Do as I say, not as I do,” seems to be the motto of an infamous Democrat running for the Senate. Maryland Senatorial Candidate Angela Alsobrooks exploited tax loopholes for which she did not qualify, saving thousands of dollars while viciously advocating for raising taxes on Americans, CNN reported on Sunday. …
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Kamala Pal Fetterman Cowardly Dodges Fracking Question
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., seemed flustered when asked about Vice President Kamala Harris’s politically expedient claim she no longer supports banning fracking. “It’s so strange why we just keep talking about fracking,” Fetterman remarked during a Sunday interview on NBC News’s Meet the Press with host Kristen Welker. Welker had pressed him…
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Man with $2.4 Million House got Subsidized Rent
(Tom Joyce, The Center Square) Gregory Finkelson received a one-year prison sentence for theft of government property because of his fraudulent receipt of hundreds of thousands of dollars in low-income housing benefits in San Francisco, according to the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California. The Honorable James Donato, United States District Judge, imposed…
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Americans Have Spent All of Their Pandemic Savings and Then Some
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Talking heads and politicians laud the “resilience” of American consumers. They managed to keep spending despite rapidly rising prices thanks to post-pandemic price inflation. But these pundits and politicos rarely talk about how Americans have weathered the inflationary storm. When you look at the big picture, it’s not a…
