(Dave Mason, The Center Square) Democratic attorneys general from Arizona and Oregon are co-leading a lawsuit to stop President Donald Trump’s tariffs.
“President Trump’s insane tariff scheme is not only economically reckless – it is illegal,” said Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes, who was joined in the suit against Trump...
(Lawrence W. Reed, Money Metals News Service) By the start of the 20th Century, governments and their diplomats around the world dubbed the (Turkish) Ottoman Empire “the sick man of Europe.”
Conventional wisdom, reflected in high school and college history texts to this day, cites these contributing factors in the...
(José Niño, Headline USA) A new investigation has uncovered that Boston Mayor Michelle Wu’s 2021 campaign received over $300,000 in donations raised by a fundraiser with close ties to the Chinese Communist Party’s intelligence arm.
According to a Daily Caller report published last Monday, Gary Yu, who has documented connections...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) As gold marches ever higher, silver continues to lag, like a kid more interested in sniffing flowers than keeping up with his parents’ pace.
Don’t get me wrong. Silver hasn’t done horribly so far this year. It is up a little over 12 percent....
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Gold’s record run has been nothing short of astounding, and it appears the bulls have plenty of strength left in them.
Since the beginning of the year, the price of gold is up by over 25 percent. That’s on top of a 26.5 percent increase...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) The official numbers are in, and industrial demand for silver set a fourth consecutive record in 2024.
Despite record industrial offtake, total silver demand declined by 3 percent to 1.16 billion ounces last year, primarily due to weak investment demand, according to the World...
(Joakim Book, Money Metals News Service) The monetary regime has immediate consequences for our behavior—as individuals, institutions, and financial entities.
One underappreciated victim of the fiat age is long-dated bonds. When price predictability of the money is strong, and commitment to the monetary regime is credible, you can finance projects or business ventures...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) The American economy is a bubble. The thing about bubbles is that they eventually pop.
All they need is a pin.
Tariff policy might be the pin that pops this bubble, but even if it isn’t, there is a pin out there with this bubble's...
(José Niño, Headline USA) Sen. John Fetterman, D-PA, is facing backlash from progressive and small-dollar donors over his increasingly pro-Israel and right-leaning positions since the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack
According to a report by The Intercept, Darwin Leuba, who serves as vice-chair of the O’Hara Township Democratic Committee and...
(Headline USA) Democrats are quick to say that President Donald Trump’s tariffs are horrible, awful, terrible. But Democrats are also stressing that they are not inherently anti-tariff.
What Trump's political opponents say they really dislike is the “chaos” he has unleashed.
“Tariffs are an important tool in our economic toolbox,” said Sen. Elizabeth Warren,...
(Money Metals News Service) Mike Maharrey, a reporter and analyst at Money Metals Exchange, recently spoke with Jp Cortez, executive director of the Sound Money Defense League, about the major strides being made in sound money policy across the United States.
As of early April 2025, five states have already passed...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Talk about a roller coaster. After plunging for several days, stocks soared Wednesday afternoon after President Trump announced a tariff pause. The S&P 500 rocketed 9 percent, charting its third-largest single-day gain since World War II.
Gold also whipsawed, having dipped below $3,000 an ounce,...