Economy & Finance

Patel Says FBI Has Discovered Groups Funding Minnesota Protests On Monday, FBI Director Kash Patel on Tuesday confirmed that the bureau is investigating groups that are believed to be organizing protests against ICE officials in Minneapolis, as daily demonstrations throughout the city continue. People march and gather near the post office during a protest, Sunday, Jan. 18, […]

Tether Launches USAT, A Federally Regulated, Dollar-Backed Stablecoin For The US Market Authored by Micah Zimmerman via BitcoinMagazine.com, Tether, the world’s largest digital asset company by stablecoin circulation, announced Tuesday the official launch of USA₮, a federally regulated, dollar-backed stablecoin designed specifically for use in the United States under the recently enacted GENIUS Act. USA₮ is issued by

Yale Goes Tuition-Free For Middle-Class As Dartmouth Prez Pushes ‘Protections For Unpopular Views’ Starting this fall, Yale University will offer free tuition for new students from households earning less than $200,000 – excluding room, board, fees and books, while admitted students whose families make less than $100,000 will pay nothing. Tuition alone at Yale is $72,500, while

Bullion Price Forecasts “Laughably Low” As Holter Warns ‘Failure To Deliver Calamity Coming’ Via Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com, Financial writer and precious metals expert Bill Holter (aka Mr. Gold) has been predicting record high gold and silver prices.  We are nowhere finished with record prices for the metals happening every week and sometimes every day.  Mr. Gold now has

Coinbase CEO Reveals AI “Oracle” Now Helping Him Run Company A steady drumbeat of media reports has warned about AI wiping out entry-level jobs and even eliminating some middle-management positions, but the prospect of AI taking over the job of CEO, or at least parts of some executive functions, could be a reality sooner than

Waste Of The Day: “Zombie” Programs Live Again Authored by Jeremy Portnoy via RealClearInvestigations, Topline: In fiscal year 2025, Congress funded 1,326 federal programs that had expired legal authorizations to receive taxpayer funding — the most since at least 2019, when the Congressional Budget Office began totaling the annual number. Another 304 funded programs had

Watch: Tech Entrepreneur Claims His AI Agent Built Itself A Face While He Slept In what could mark a new milestone in the evolving saga of personal AI agents, social media entrepreneur Alex Finn claimed on Tuesday that his self-hosted Clawdbot autonomously designed and animated a visual representation of itself, complete with an animated owl

Censorship & The Ratchet Effect: Threats To Free Speech Outlast Supposed Crises Authored by Julian Adorney via TheDailyEconomy.org, Late last year, YouTube announced plans to reinstate accounts that had been banned at the behest of the Biden Administration for posting alleged COVID-19 misinformation. The announcement likely came as a relief to groups like the Children’s Health Defense

EU, India Sign ‘Mother Of All Deals’ Free Trade Agreement In Rebuff To Trump: What’s In It The newly signed India-European Union free trade agreement is being hailed as “the mother of all deals” – as it follows nearly two decades of intermittent negotiations, also after President Trump slapped India with 50% tariffs last year in part