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‘Not Grounded In Science’: GOP Senators Warn Federal Reserve Against Promoting Environmental Policies

Thomas Catenacci on March 18, 2021 Senate Banking Committee Republicans led by Ranking Member Pat Toomey urged Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell not to pursue environmental policies in a letter Thursday. Toomey and the other Republican committee members warned that the Federal Reserve potentially using regulatory authority to push an environmental agenda would be beyond…

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Back the Libra with Gold, Says Steve Forbes

By Jeffrey A. Tucker Facebook’s Libra – a stablecoin that could offer a serious challenge to the money and banking status quo – will likely be very good for mainstream acceptance of blockchain technology as an infrastructure of a global privately produced currency. It could become a genuine challenge to the whole idea of nation-state money as…