(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) The Consumer Price Index is cooling, but what about inflation?
The January CPI data give the impression that the Federal Reserve is finally winning the war against inflation. Not only was the data cooler than expected, but it’s also beginning to edge close to...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Chinese consumers seeking a “safety net” are gobbling up gold even with prices at record levels.
The Chinese Lunar New Year holiday (Feb. 17) typically boosts Chinese gold demand. This year, buying is hotter than ever, even with elevated prices. As the South China Morning Post describes...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) A graphic showing the percentage of border entries during the Biden administration has gone viral on social media, highlighting that a significant portion of some countries’ populations made their way into the U.S.
The graphic, created by data scientist Jonathan Pallesen and shared Friday via X, shows that between four and six percent of the populations of Nicaragua, Cuba, Honduras, Haiti, Guatemala and Venezuela...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) The Federal Reserve put interest rate cuts on pause at the January meeting. The central bankers cited expanding economic activity and a stable labor market as reasons for the pause.
The official FOMC statement asserted that while “job gains have remained low, the unemployment rate...
(Headline USA) Adam Mosseri, the head of Meta's Instagram, testified Wednesday during a landmark social media trial in Los Angeles that he disagrees with the idea that people can be clinically addicted to social media platforms.
The question of addiction is a key pillar of the case, where plaintiffs seek...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Tariff revenue is closing the budget deficit, but federal spending continues to increase, erasing some of those gains and driving Uncle Sam deeper into debt.
The federal government ran a $94.62 billion deficit in January, according to the monthly Treasury statement. That was down 26 percent...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Fundamentally, gold is money, but it does have other practical uses, contrary to what some ignorant commentators might tell you.
Gold demand in the tech and industrial sectors was generally flat at 222.8 tonnes in 2025. This was down about 1.5 percent from 226.2...
(José Niño, Headline USA) The nation's top workplace discrimination watchdog made Nike its biggest corporate target yet in the Trump administration's sweeping campaign against corporate diversity programs, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced last Wednesday that it opened an investigation into...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) When I was a kid, someone superglued a quarter to the cafeteria floor at my junior high school. We enjoyed several days of entertainment watching people trying to pick that quarter up.
A few kids were super-aggressive in their efforts to unstick that quarter....
(Money Metals News Service) In a recent episode of the Money Metals podcast, host Mike Maharrey sat down with veteran investment advisor J. Ted Oakley, founder of Oxbow Advisors. Oakley brought more than 40 years of experience advising high-net-worth clients, but the conversation began far from Wall Street.
Oakley shared a...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) A cooperation agreement between the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) and Shanghai will facilitate gold trading as part of a push to elevate the role of China’s two financial centers in the global gold market.
Western markets – London, New York, and Switzerland...
(Money Metals News Service) In this episode of the Money Metals Midweek Memo, host Mike Maharrey returns with a single message for listeners watching the screen turn red. Perspective matters more than panic.
He opens with a quick personal aside from Florida, where an outdoor hockey game in Tampa turned...