By: Katie Pavlich – townhall.com – April 14, 2023 This week, the Federal Reserve went into damage control mode over warnings from lawmakers, currency experts, economists and others that the federal government agency is quickly moving toward implementing a digital currency system. “Is FedNow replacing cash? Is it a central bank digital currency?” an individual submitted during a question and...

The Social Security Board of Trustees recently released its 2023 report on the financial status of Social Security’s Old Age and Survivors Insurance (OASI) Trust Fund, which pays retirement benefits to about 52 million seniors.

The fact is red-state elected officials keep their large, progressive cities from imposing most of the virtue-signaling, leftist policies those cities would like to impose.

The United States is a decisive power, but also a dangerous one. The concentration of power and capabilities, and the degree to which they are globally interconnected, means that an American failure would likely have disastrous consequences globally. Source: The American Crisis Intensifies – Geopolitical Futures

Biden has a stunning amount of gall to crow over his failed border policy.

One side of our economic challenges can be solved by controlling inflation, which requires raising interest rates. The other side can be controlled by increasing liquidity in our banks, thereby increasing inflation. Some say the Fed will be choosing between generational inflation and another banking crisis in the days ahead.

Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), whose collapse last week has triggered a global banking crisis, donated over $73 million to the BLM movement.  

By: Alan S. Blinder –  wsj.com – March 15, 2023 But don’t succumb to Yogi Berra Syndrome and declare this déjà vu all over again. This isn’t a replay of 2008. Yes, the problems at SVB initially were characterized as small and contained, redolent of the original attitudes toward subprime mortgages in 2006-08. But this time around, it took the authorities...

Prices rose by 0.4 percent in February and core inflation was up 0.5 percent, the third consecutive month that it has increased.

The primary concern of the people who ran the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) — the bank that just went bust — was not banking. Nor was it making money for the bank’s shareholders or safeguarding the funds of its depositors.