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Three Factors Driving Gold Bulls Into 2024

(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 new records in its crosshairs…

Outlook 2024: Gold Set to Make History

(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 campaign last fall. It…

Special Taxes on Wireless ‘Family Plans’ Cost $100s Extra Per Year

(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 month. “Since 2012, the average…

Calif. Pizza Huts to Lay Off 1,200 Drivers Ahead of Minimum Wage Hike

(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 rise to $20 per hour in 2024, establish mandatory…

Shooting at Colorado Supreme Court Unrelated to Trump Case

(Headline USA) A man leaving the scene of a car wreck Tuesday shot his way into the Colorado Supreme Court building and inflicted “extensive damage” to the building before being arrested by police, authorities said, adding the incident seems unrelated to the court’s recent ruling banning former President Donald Trump from the ballot. Colorado’s justices have received threats…

Woke Harvard President Resigns after Plagiarism, Anti-Semitism Scandals

(Headline USA) Harvard University President Claudine Gay resigned Tuesday amid plagiarism accusations and criticism over testimony at a congressional hearing where she was unable to say unequivocally that calls on campus for the genocide of Jews would violate the school’s conduct policy. Gay is the second Ivy League president to resign in the past month following the congressional…

N.C. Finalizes Ballot, Bans All Biden Competitors from Primary

(Headline USA) North Carolina’s election board finalized on Tuesday the candidates for the state’s March 5 presidential primaries, leaving President Joe Biden as the lone Democrat for the job on ballots and former President Donald Trump among the Republican competitors. The five-member State Board of Elections voted unanimously to stick with the candidate lists provided by the state’s Democratic, Republican and…