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Silver Prices Rose Even as Demand Slipped

(Money Metals News Service) In a recent episode of the Money Metals Midweek Memo, host Mike Maharrey explored a surprising disconnect in the silver market. Normally, declining demand would point to weaker prices. Instead, silver surged dramatically through late 2025 and into early 2026. Maharrey explained that headline demand figures...

Silver Price Surged Last Year Despite Modest Drop in Demand

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Given the surging silver price, you might think demand was up significantly last year. It wasn’t. Silver was up as much as 147 percent intra-year in 2025, starting the year at 28.84 and surging to over $100. This happened despite a 2 percent drop in...

Fixing Trade With Sound Money

(Joseph Solis-Mullen, Money Metals News Service) Few things are more head-shakingly trying to the sound money economist than listening to the endless academic and policy debates about trade. Lost amidst the back and forth over surpluses and deficits, the “appropriate” level of subsidies or tariffs, is the fact that were...

Greg Weldon on Gold, the Dollar, China, and the Stagflation Threat

(Money Metals News Service) In the latest Money Metals podcast, host Mike Maharrey welcomed back veteran market analyst Gregory T. Weldon for a sweeping discussion on precious metals, the U.S. dollar, geopolitics, inflation, and the growing disconnect between financial markets and economic reality. Although the two last spoke in January, Greg Weldon joked that...

The Tax Man Is Handing Out Big Refunds This Year; What’s Your Plan?

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Have any plans for that big tax refund? Odds are, you got one. Analysts say around 73 percent of taxpayers will get refunds this year. And they’re getting more back to boot. According to IRS data, the average refund is $3,462. That was up...

The Inflation Tax: You’re Still Paying for That Covid Stimulus

(Money Metals News Service) Yesterday was Tax Day. It’s a source of misery for many of us as we write a big check to the IRS. But did you know the IRS isn’t the source of your biggest tax bill? In fact, you don’t even get a bill. You...

Fort Knox Gold Scandal?

(Money Metals News Service) Mike Maharrey’s latest Money Metals Midweek Memo zeroed in on two big themes with major implications for sound money investors. First, much of the gold supposedly backing America’s financial credibility may be lower-quality metal that does not meet modern international standards. Second, the silver market could be heading into even...

U.S. Government Spending Addiction Drives Yet Another Big Monthly Deficit

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) This is your monthly reminder that the U.S. government still has a massive spending problem. The federal government’s Debt Black Hole got a little bigger in March, as Uncle Sam ran yet another big budget deficit. According to the Monthly Treasury Statement, the Trump administration spent $164.1...

Oil Prices Climb Back Above $100 and Stocks Slip as Hopes Recede a Bit About the US-Iran War

(Headline USA) Oil prices are back above $100 per barrel, and stock markets are falling worldwide Monday after 21 hours of ceasefire talks between the United States and Iran failed to end their war. But the moves are more modest than many of the extreme swings that have rocked financial...

Buyers Fret as the Average Cost of a New Car Nears $50K

(Headline USA) After a few years of sharing a 2019 Chevrolet Trax, Dana Eble and Tyler Marcus are finally looking for a second car. But as they jump into the market, the young married couple isn't sure what they can afford. “I just keep seeing a lot of different aspects of...

Report: U.S. Added $1.2 Trillion to National Debt in Six Months

(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) The U.S. government added $1.2 trillion to the national debt over the past six months, borrowing $163 billion during March alone, the Congressional Budget Office reports. At the current rate of borrowing, federal deficits are on track to top $2 trillion by October, the end...

WATCH: More than $600 Million Stolen from SNAP in 2025

(Andrew Rice, The Center Square) About $607 million was stolen from EBT accounts in 2025, according to a new report. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5aXHRYvaRw Propel, an EBT benefits tracking program, found large amounts of benefit theft from cards used as a part of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. Among people whose benefits...
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