(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) President Donald Trump's tariffs are expected to cost U.S. consumers an extra $1,400 in 2026, according to an analysis from the Tax Foundation.
Trump made tariffs the centerpiece of his domestic and foreign agenda at the start of his second term in the White House....
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Regulators in India have revised rules to allow pension funds to invest in gold and silver ETFs. This could further boost already booming investment demand in India.
India ranks as the world’s second-largest gold market and consistently falls in the top four silver-consuming nations.
For...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Gold and silver have hogged the spotlight; however, the platinum group metals (PGMs) have had a breakout year as well.
Platinum has surged by 92 percent in 2025, and palladium has gained 65 percent. Meanwhile, the price of rhodium (A rarer PGM used in...
(Money Metals News Service) In a recent interview on the Money Metals podcast, host Mike Maharrey welcomed Edward Sterck, Director of Research at the World Platinum Investment Council, to help gold and silver investors understand why platinum and palladium are suddenly demanding attention.
Maharrey framed the conversation as a deliberate shift...
(José Niño, Headline USA) The benchmark for wealth in America has undergone a dramatic transformation. According to a report by Fortune, Americans now place the threshold for being considered wealthy at an average of $2.3 million—a 21 percent surge since 2021 that underscores how inflation and escalating expenses have...
(Jan Nieuwenhuijs, Money Metals News Service) Without a doubt, the Chinese central bank (PBoC) is still the leading single entity that is driving up the gold price to record highs, year-to-date by more than 55 percent.
In the third quarter of 2025, the PBoC’s gold purchases (reported and unreported) accounted...
(Dave Mason, The Center Square) Democratic attorneys general from California and 18 other states sued the Trump administration Friday over its new $100,000 fee on H-1B visas.
President Donald Trump imposed the rule Sept. 19 for new petitions for the nonimmigrant visas, which allow U.S. employers to hire temporary, foreign...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The US Treasury Department on Thursday announced sanctions targeting six companies it accused of transporting Venezuelan oil, as Reuters reported that the Trump administration is gearing up to seize more oil tankers.
The US seizure of a tanker off the coast of Venezuela that was bound for...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) I ran across a story about a gold and silver theft the other day.
It contains some valuable lessons.
And it also raises a few questions.
Let me just warn you up front: this story is rated PG-13.
Now, you’re probably thinking: what can be so unusual...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) As the Federal Reserve revs up the money-creating machine even higher, the money supply is already growing at the fastest rate since July 2022, in the early stages of the tightening cycle.
This is inflation, by definition.
After peaking in April 2022, the money supply...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) A federal grand jury has slapped another Black Lives Matter official with a whopping 25-count fraud and money laundering indictment, marking the latest in a growing string of scandals involving the left-wing activist group.
According to the DOJ, Tashella Sheri Amore Dickerson, executive director of Black Lives Matter’s Oklahoma City chapter, embezzled several million dollars in donations...
(Headline USA) Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Thursday linked the seizure of an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela to the Trump administration’s counterdrug efforts in Latin America as tensions escalate with the government of President Nicolás Maduro.
Noem's assertion, which came during her testimony to the House...