The World Economic Forum (WEF) declared in a report titled "Modernizing Financial Markets with Wholesale Central Bank Digital Currency (wCBDC)" that at least 98% of the "global economy’s central banks are researching, experimenting, piloting or deploying central bank digital currency (CBDC) to determine how to modernize the capabilities of and improve access to central bank money (CeBM)."
Mark Twain's timeless observation rings true: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." Yet, the skepticism toward government-published statistics is...
The Federal Reserve announced its preliminary results of 2023 financial statements, finding that the central bank ran an operating loss of $114.3 billion.
Last week we witnessed a dramatic, historical first: A Speaker of the US House of Representatives was removed from that position by a vote from Members of that body. US Rep. Matt Gaetz was able to gather enough Republicans dissatisfied with the leadership of then-Speaker Kevin McCarthy to send him packing.
"Hopefully the successful effort to strip Ukraine funding from the CR is the first of many victories by the antiwar fiscal conservatives over the military-industrial complex and its politicians, lobbyists, and propagandists."