🗞️No More "Junk Fees" and A Shocking Poll

December 17th, 2024

Good Evening 🇺🇸,

What happened today,

• The Federal Trade Commission announced a final rule banning hotels, ticketing, and short-term rental companies from including hidden junk fees in their total price

• Luigi Mangione, the suspect of the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO, Brian Thompson, has been indicted by a grand jury on several murder charges and illegal firearm possession

• A shocking and disturbing poll found 41 percent of adults under 30 consider the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO acceptable

• Trump is suing Iowa Newspaper, The Des Moines Register, for what he said was “election interference” after their pollster released a pre-election poll that showed Harris winning the state the weekend before the election

• The New York architect, Rex Heuermann, facing murder charges in a string of deaths known as the Gilgo Beach killings was charged today in the death of a seventh woman

• President Biden calls for a ban on congressional stock trading

• Restaurant prices have risen 44% since 2015, compared to a 26% uptick in grocery prices during the same timeframe per PYMNTS

• Bitcoin hits an all-time high of $108,000

• DOW down .61%/ S&P down .39%

• Ukraine assassinated leading Russian military official, Lieutenant-General Igor Kirillov, in a daring bomb attack in Moscow

• Reports state Canadian PM, Justin Trudeau, is considering resigning after his finance minister resigned Monday and he has had other members of the Canadian government call for his departure

Plus: A look at military spending in 2024 amongst different countries

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