Trump’s Hold on Rural America Is Key to His Resilience – WSJ

A lot of people are saying that Donald Trump’s stronghold on rural America is a key factor in his resilience and ability to overcome legal troubles and challenges. It seems that in areas like Hancock County, Iowa, he has a significant amount of support that is helping him to maintain his position. In fact, while […]

Trump, New York Attorney General Face Off a Final Time in $370 Million Fraud Trial – WSJ

Haha, what a bunch of bullshit! The deep state is trying to take down Trump again with another baseless lawsuit. These communists just can’t stand the fact that a man like Trump, who has built an empire from scratch, is standing up against them. It’s a conspiracy to silence and discredit him before the election. […]

Trump Civil-Fraud Trial Explained: Why His Business Empire Is at Stake

Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial in Manhattan is all about whether he and his adult children lied about the value of their assets to get loans and pay less taxes. In other words, they’re accused of committing financial fraud, which could potentially lead to some serious consequences for Trump’s business empire. So why is this […]

Trump’s Businesses Got Millions From Foreign Governments While He Was President – WSJ

It seems like the Democrats are trying to make a mountain out of a molehill here. Accepting money from foreign governments is not necessarily a violation of the Constitution, especially if those funds were used for legitimate business purposes. Additionally, it’s worth noting that many politicians accept money from foreign entities without facing similar scrutiny. […]

MicroStrategy’s CFO on Applying Bitcoin to Finance – CFO Journal. – WSJ

Cryptocurrency has become one of the most prominent uses of blockchain’s distributed ledger technology, and last August, business intelligence software producer MicroStrategy began its push into crypto by acquiring $250 million in bitcoin for its corporate treasury. We had traditionally invested in Treasury bills, but leaving money purely in a fiat currency is a worry […]

Elon Musk, ‘SNL,’ Dogecoin, and Mother’s Day: The Making of a Comic Cocktail

More than most business leaders, the billionaire has a history of cracking wise—and not so wise—on Twitter , in cameos in popular films and TV shows and in publicity events for his various companies. He has won a global following and, for the first time, the show will be livestreamed internationally in over 100 countries […]

Cannabis Goes Corporate: Lobbyists, Unions Seek to Shape Marijuana Industry

HARTFORD, Conn.—The rally at the state capitol on April 20, the unofficial holiday for pot aficionados, brought out green-wigged supporters ringed in wisps of smoke. A decade ago, a handful of pro-pot companies and interest groups spent less than a half-million dollars on federal lobbying. Federal lobbying on cannabis declined last year amid the coronavirus […]

If Crypto Crashes Tomorrow, It’s No Big Deal. In Five Years, It Might Be.

But are they really? One way to answer that question is to imagine what would happen if their newfound wealth went “poof,” aside from sparking lots of schadenfreude that is. The price of bitcoin—the most established of the private digital currencies—has risen about 290% over the past six months, but that is nothing compared with […]

Americans Can’t Get Enough of the Stock Market

JPMorgan’s Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou, who analyzed the data, attributes the elevated allocations to appreciating share prices alongside stock purchases. The enthusiasm for stocks comes as market volatility has been edging lower and the S&P 500 has hit 25 records this year, fueled by a stellar earnings season and the prospect of an economic recovery that is […]

A Green Germany Could Pump Up Europe’s Fiscal Push

But Germany isn’t the obstacle it once was, and the rise of its Green Party could further push both country and continent toward the U.S. She isn’t running for re-election this September and polls put the Greens in second place, close behind Ms. Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union-led alliance. The Greens have evolved from an antinuclear […]

Google Earnings Smash Sales Records as Digital Ad Market Booms

The pandemic provided a jolt to Alphabet Inc.’s advertising business as more people shifted their lives online during a stay-at-home year, turning to Google search to find takeout meals and grocery-delivery options while clicking through videos on the company’s YouTube platform. Alphabet reported first-quarter sales of $55.31 billion, an increase of 34% from a year […]

Let Investors Fund the Green New Deal

Allowing the climate-obsessed leaders of global financial institutions to hand over the money voluntarily is the intriguing idea floated on Thursday by Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen. Why not all of it? Certainly the demand for funding among people pursuing environmental agendas is massive, but so too is the willingness of the managers of large financial […]

Women Step Up Trading in Bitcoin, Other Cryptocurrencies

Some are expecting that number to rise further, thanks in part to investors’ greater awareness of the asset class, their desire to buy into hot markets and the promise of boosting their savings. One in four customers who traded crypto so far in 2021 on the Robinhood Markets Inc. Anthony Denier, chief executive at Webull […]

Women Step Up Trading in Bitcoin, Other Cryptocurrencies

Some are expecting that number to rise further, thanks in part to investors’ greater awareness of the asset class, their desire to buy into hot markets and the promise of boosting their savings. One in four customers who traded crypto so far in 2021 on the Robinhood Markets Inc. Anthony Denier, chief executive at Webull […]

Behind Bitcoin’s Weekend Slide: Imploding Bets and Forced Liquidations

Bitcoin fell as much as 17% on Saturday to $52,149, with about half the decline occurring in about 20 minutes late in the evening Eastern Time. Bitcoin topped out at $64,829 on April 14, the same day Coinbase Global Inc., the biggest U.S. Since bitcoin crossed $60,000 in March for the first time, its pace […]