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Investment Supporting Indian Gold Demand as Prices Continue to Surge

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Gold prices continued to rise in India, creating headwinds for jewelry demand while boosting investment. India ranks as the world's second-largest gold market behind China. Gold has increased 73 percent year-to-date in rupee terms. That compares with a 67 percent increase in dollar terms. A weakening...

November CPI Data Was Basically Just Made Up

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) The November CPI data came in much cooler than expected. This boosted optimism that the Federal Reserve has finally gotten inflation under control and fueled speculation that the Federal Reserve may be willing to deliver additional monetary easing (In other words, create more inflation). The question...

Report: Biden-Harris Received $613 Million in Dark Money Last Year

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Nearly $900 million in secretive donations funded the 2024 presidential election, with the majority of that “dark money” going to the Democrats’ Kamala Harris campaign, according to the New York Times. The Times reported Wednesday that Future Forward USA Action, the super PAC backing Joseph Biden...

Watchdog Warns of National Debt Interest Payments Hitting $1 Trillion

(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) Budget watchdogs are sounding the alarm as the U.S. hit an unfortunate fiscal milestone in fiscal year 2025: government spending on debt interest payments alone topped $1 trillion this year. The federal government added roughly $1.8 trillion to the now $38 trillion national debt in...

Gold Standard Explained: 7 Fiat Myths Debunked

(Money Metals News Service) In a recent episode of the Money Metals podcast, host Mike Maharrey sits down with Peter C. Earle, PhD, of the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER) to unpack what the gold standard actually is—and why it still matters in a world of fiat money. Earle brings both academic and...

Trump Signs Order Reclassifying Marijuana as Schedule III Drug

(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square)  President Donald Trump signed an executive order to reclassify marijuana from a Schedule I to a Schedule III controlled substance, despite many Republican lawmakers urging him not to. "I want to emphasize that the order I am about to sign is not the legalization ...

Man Learns Not to Pack Silver Coins in Checked Bag the Hard Way

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Let’s talk about security. If you own precious metals and you opt to keep them in your possession, you need to take steps to keep them secure, right? You don’t want to be like the lady who hid her silver coins in a...

Is the Gold Market a Bubble? Or Is Something Else Going On?

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Gold is up over 109 percent since the beginning of 2024. Some analysts say that the yellow metal is in a bubble destined to pop. However, there is another possibility. What if the meteoric rise in the price of gold is signaling a paradigm...

Trump Halts Green Card Lottery After Brown University Shooting

(Headline USA) President Donald Trump suspended the green card lottery program on Thursday that allowed the suspect in the Brown University and MIT shootings to come to the United States. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a post on the social platform X that, at Trump’s direction, she is...

November Inflation at 2.7%, Lower than Expected

(Andrew Rice, The Center Square)  Consumer prices rose by 0.2% in the two month period between September and November. In the past 12 months, overall prices rose by 2.7%, which marks a slowdown from 3% reported in September, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Due to the federal government shutdown,...

Somalians Stole BILLIONS of Dollars from Welfare Programs in Minnesota, DOJ Says

(Headline USA) Half or more of the roughly $18 billion in federal funds that supported 14 Minnesota-run programs since 2018 may have been stolen, a federal prosecutor said Thursday, describing the massive and multilayered fraud schemes as staggering. While prosecutors typically see fraud manifest as providers overbilling, Thompson said during a...

U.S. House Passes GOP Health Care Bill, Sends to Senate

(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square)  The U.S. House passed the Lower Health Care Premiums for All Americans Act in a party line, 216-211, vote Wednesday, sending the bill to its likely demise in the Senate. The bill, which will almost certainly fail to reach the Senate’s 60-vote threshold, is Republicans’...
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