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You can now send money to the U.S. Treasury using Venmo or PayPal. That's not a joke. The Treasury Department has updated its "Gifts to Reduce the Public Debt" portal on Pay.gov to accept digita...
You can now send money to the U.S. Treasury using Venmo or PayPal. That's not a joke. The Treasury Department has updated its "Gifts to Reduce the Public Debt" portal on Pay.gov to accept digita...
FINRA is preparing to rewrite the Pattern Day Trader rule. The current threshold requires $25,000 in equity. That's set to drop to $2,000. Retail investors will finally get more access. The current...
November 7, 1983. Just before 11 p.m. A bomb hidden under a bench inside the Capitol's Senate wing detonated. The building shook. Glass shattered. Offices were torn apart. The target? A space just ...
In the early 1980s, Donald Trump saw an opening. He believed that America could support a second professional football league. One that would compete with the NFL. One that would play in the spring...
It took just one tweet. "Breaking: Two Explosions in the White House and Barack Obama is injured." That message came from the official Twitter account of the Associated Press on April 23, 2013. ...
It happened in 2015. Sanmay Ved, a former Google employee, made a late-night discovery. While casually browsing Google Domains, he noticed something strange: Google.com was available for purchase. ...
On May 22nd, 1856, a sitting Congressman walked into the U.S. Senate chamber and unleashed a brutal assault on a fellow lawmaker. Rep. Preston Brooks of South Carolina entered the chamber with a ca...
It sounds like fiction. But it isn't. In 1876, a group of counterfeiters tried to steal Abraham Lincoln's body from his tomb in Springfield, Illinois. The goal? Ransom. At the time, the Secre...
It was February 11th, 2006. Vice President Dick Cheney was hunting quail on a ranch in Texas. The group had split up. Visibility was limited. Cheney fired at a bird. Instead, he hit Harry Whitti...
April 23, 1985. Coca-Cola made one of the most infamous marketing decisions in corporate history. They changed the formula. "New Coke" was meant to halt Pepsi's growing market share. Internal te...
Canada just pulled the trigger on its long-threatened Digital Services Tax. It's a 3% levy on gross revenue tied to Canadian users. Not profit - revenue. That includes digital advertising, user dat...
Donald Trump has been back in the White House for months, and one priority is already dominating the agenda: slashing interest rates. On June 27, Trump made it crystal clear: he will only appoint a...
Can crypto help you buy a house? That's no longer a fringe question. It's now federal policy. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have been ordered to explore it - officially. The FHFA (Federal Housing F...
Throughout U.S. history, the National Guard has been called in to deal with unrest. Labor uprisings. Race riots. Campus protests. Civil disorder. Each time, the deployment was a signal: something had ...
Can the President of the United States fire the Chairman of the Federal Reserve? Short answer: no. Not easily. Not without a fight. The Federal Reserve Act gives the Chair of the Fed a four-year...