Why I Joined Monetary Metals

The Great Retreat: Beijing's Digital Currency Ambitions Are Faltering Authored by James Gorrie via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), For years, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has positioned the digital yuan (e-CNY) as the ultimate weapon of financial totalitarianism. It was intended to be the crowning achievement of the surveillance state. With a programmable, traceable digital currency, Beijing thought it would finally break the back of private payment giants like Alipay and WeChat Pay. Signage of the Chinese digital currency is seen near a coffee store in the New Actuation Fintech Center...

Leftist Vandals Again Hit Chicago Mural Of Murdered Ukrainian Iryna Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, The Chicago mural honoring Iryna Zarutska, the innocent Ukrainian refugee stabbed to death in cold blood on a Charlotte light rail train, has been vandalized again—just two weeks after its unveiling. This latest defacement underscores how deranged leftists will go to any lengths to suppress reminders of the deadly fallout from their soft-on-crime policies, even when the victim is a refugee who fled war. The mural, painted on a three-story brick building at West Montrose and North...