Yesterday we reviewed the Fed’s Statement of Operations finding many peculiarities such as: a $16 billion capitalized loss, $2 billion spent by the Board of Governors, and $1.2 billion paid as a dividend to the banks. It also illustrated how the Fed receives money from the government, pays banks and administration fees, thereby grinding down income, only to remit far less money back to the government than it took in.

With the stroke of Gov. Tate Reeves’s pen on Wednesday, Mississippi has become the 43rd state in the country to end sales taxes on the purchase of physical gold, silver, platinum, and palladium coins and bullion.

Senate Bill 2862, sponsored by Sen. Juan Barnett (D-34), had passed out of the full senate by a vote of 52-0 and sailed through the House of Representatives by a vote of 115-0. The effective date is July 1, 2023.

Over the past year, three US states have enacted new legislation legalizing recreational marijuana within their borders. In May 2022, recreational cannabis became legal in Rhode Island, and the same occurred in Missouri in December of last year. In the wake of the 2022 election, in which Maryland voters approved Maryland Question 4, recreational use became legal in that state as well.