(Andrew Rice, The Center Square) Government unions across the country spent more than $900 million during the 2023-2024 election cycle, according to a new report.
The Commonwealth Foundation’s most recent report found the top four public sector unions: the National Education Association, American Federation of Teachers, Service Employees International Union...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Congress has released its 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) and is preparing to pass the sweeping spending bill, which will give President Trump a total military budget of over $1 trillion.
Earlier this year, a supplemental for an additional $156 billion was included in the so-called “Big...
(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) The U.S. Senate will hold a doomed vote next week on Democrats’ bill to extend the enhanced Obamacare subsidies for three more years.
Senate Republicans, meanwhile, have not decided on an alternative health care bill, despite millions of Americans’ premiums set to spike after Dec....
(José Niño, Headline USA) A company with long standing ties to Israeli intelligence now manages cyber security systems across more than seventy federal agencies in the United States, including the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security.
This finding comes from a detailed report on Axonius, a firm...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Talk about a generous Christmas giving spirit!
Somebody dropped nearly $11,000 into two Salvation Army kettles in the Chicago area.
And get this. They made the generous donation using just 8 coins.
As you might have guessed by now, we’re not talking about quarters. These coins...
(Headline USA) The Justice Department failed Thursday to secure a new indictment against New York Attorney General Letitia James after a judge dismissed the previous mortgage fraud prosecution, according to people familiar with the matter.
Prosecutors went back to a grand jury in Virginia after a judge’s ruling halting the...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Silver has taken us on a wild ride, nearly doubling in price this year. However, some analysts worry that silver is taking us down a path of disappointment. They base their bearish sentiment on history. After all, silver teased us with twin records in...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The US on Wednesday officially opened a new consulate in Erbil, the capital of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region, that is said to be the largest US consulate building in the world.
The compound sits on 206,000 square meters, or about 50 acres, and cost about $800 million...
(Money Metals News Service) Mike Maharrey opens this near-100th episode of the Money Metals Midweek Memo by admitting he’s always been bad at math.
But his main point is that math’s weakness as a personal skill doesn’t change its strength as a reality check. Words can spin. Narratives can be...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) A bipartisan group of senators has reintroduced a War Powers Resolution aimed at blocking President Donald Trump from launching a war with Venezuela without congressional authorization.
The bill was introduced by Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA), Rand Paul (R-KY), and Adam Schiff (D-CA), who sponsored the previous resolution,...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) US envoy Steve Witkoff and President Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, held five hours of talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin and his advisers at the Kremlin on Tuesday to discuss a potential peace plan to end the war in Ukraine, but the meeting ended with no...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) After taking a breather earlier this year, central banks are once again gobbling up gold, with October purchases hitting the highest level of the year.
Central banks globally increased their gold reserves by 53 tonnes (net) in October. That was up 36 percent from...