Monthly Archives: April 2020
How to Make a Financial Disaster Recovery Kit
(Associated Press) So far, 2020 has been a year of disruption for many Americans. Finances and lives have been upended by the mental, physical...
Surf’s Down in California: Governor Set to Close Beaches
(Associated Press) California Gov. Gavin Newsom will order all beaches and state parks closed starting Friday after people thronged the seashore last weekend despite...
Monster Gains in Mining Stocks Bode Well for Gold and Silver
(Stefan Gleason, Money Metals News Service) April marks a second month of truly extraordinary developments in markets – from negatively priced crude oil futures...
Fauci Warns States Against Tempting a Coronavirus Rebound
(Associated Press) The nation's top infectious disease expert said Thursday that new cases of the coronavirus are a certainty as states begin to roll...
Trump Order Keeps Meat Packing Plants Open
(Associated Press) President Donald Trump took executive action to order meat processing plants to stay open amid concerns over growing coronavirus cases and...
S&P 500 on Pace for Best Month Since 1974
(Associated Press) Stocks charged higher around the world Wednesday following an encouraging report on a possible treatment for COVID-19.
The optimism helped send the S&P...
NYC Tailor Ignores Shelter Order: ‘I’m Opening Come Hell or High Water’
(Claire Russel, Liberty Headlines) A tailor in New York City opened his shop for business last week despite the city’s shelter-in-place order, arguing that the government...
Pandemic Brings Fortunes to Amazon – and Headaches Too
(Associated Press) Amazon has spent years honing the business of packing, shipping and delivering millions of products to doorsteps around the world.
Now it has...
What’s Next, Trillion-Dollar Coins?
(Stefan Gleason, Money Metals News Service) The massive set of stimulus measures rolled out last month by the Treasury Department and Federal Reserve has...
Losing It: 72% of Locked-Down Americans Say They’ll Reach ‘Breaking Point’ By Mid-June
(StudyFinds) As each individual state charts its own course out of the coronavirus pandemic, Americans all over the country are growing more and more impatient....
