* Guest: Bryan Rust, Over the past 50 years, Rust Coins has been working to educate customers about precious metals – RustCoinAndGift.com

* Honest Money Report: Gold – $2159.60 Silver – $24.48.

* Moon Lander Sends Final Photo Before It Stops Working Odysseus’ systems could wake up in a few weeks.

* Jerome Powell, the Federal Reserve chair, told lawmakers that rate cuts in 2024 were still likely and that hot-button bank rules could be reissued.

He thinks the central bank would begin to lower borrowing costs in 2024 but that policymakers still needed to gain ‘greater confidence’ that inflation was conquered before making a move.

* The Minority Business Development Agency, a Commerce Department program created during the Nixon administration to help minority-owned businesses, discriminates against white people and must offer its services to people of all races and ethnic groups, a federal judge in Texas ruled on Wednesday.

The judge, Mark T. Pittman of the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas, sided with two of the three white business owners who sued the agency after they were told its assistance was limited to members of ‘disadvantaged’ minority groups.

* Target Gets Into the Paid Membership Game Launches a program similar to Amazon Prime and Walmart Plus – Newser.

The new paid program, called Target Circle 360, will offer unlimited free same-day delivery in as little as an hour for orders over $35 and free two-day shipping – AP.

Target Circle credit card holders can sign up for the lower price anytime.

In comparison, an Amazon Prime membership, launched in 2005, now costs $15 a month or $139 annually and includes free streaming of its Amazon Video, among other perks. Meanwhile, with Walmart’s paid membership program called Walmart Plus, launched in 2020, members get free shipping for $12.95 per month or $98 per year.

The discounter said its current Target Circle program has more than 100 million members who shop and spend more than five times more than non-members.

* The State of the Union Address has become one of the biggest yearly fake news, propaganda, political theater events in America.

* Is Mayorkas Impeachment Doomed in the Senate? – House GOP Stalls. Why?

* Speaker Mike Johnson again relied on Democratic votes to push through a six-bill package to fund about half the government through the fall.

The House passed a $460B spending bill to fund about half the federal government.

* Johnson: We only control one-half of one-third of the federal government’.