(Money Metals News Service) In a new Money Metals podcast interview, analyst Mike Maharrey spoke with veteran technical analyst Clive Maund about the Treasury market, soaring government debt, gold, silver, oil, inflation, and the increasingly unstable global fiat monetary system.
Clive Maund has been analyzing markets for decades and has...
(Headline USA) Four astronauts rocketed into orbit Thursday on a space station mission that will stretch until spring, among them a Canadian whose wife will give birth while he’s away.
SpaceX launched commander Jessica Watkins and her crew for NASA after a three-week delay to fix their Dragon capsule’s leaking...
(José Niño, Headline USA) A surveillance technology firm associated with Hunter Biden laptop analyst Yaacov Apelbaum listed Israel’s Prime Minister’s Office among its customers in a 2019 marketing presentation, according to a Newsroom report.
According to the Tuesday report, XRVision promoted facial recognition, video analytics, and artificial intelligence based surveillance tools...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Do you want to know why the U.S. Treasury market is selling off?
Listen closely to Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. He thinks the world should find an alternative to the U.S. dollar.
Now, you might not care what Canadians think. You might think Carney...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) The Indian gold market is cautiously optimistic as we approach the festive gold-buying season.
Higher prices continue to weigh on gold jewelry demand even as they support investment purchases. Meanwhile, wedding buying appears “resilient,” according to the World Gold Council.
India ranks as the world’s...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) During an Oval Office meeting with President Donald Trump in Washington on Thursday, Chinese President Xi Jinping conveyed China’s position on Taiwan and told the US president to approach the issue “carefully,” The South China Morning Post reported, citing the Chinese broadcaster CCTV.
The report said that...
(Headline USA) Starbucks plans to close 250 North American stores later this week.
It is the second big round of store closures under Starbucks Chairman and CEO Brian Niccol, who joined the company in 2024. Last September, Starbucks closed 627 stores in North America and Europe.
In a letter to employees,...
(Money Metals News Service) A bank run is a familiar danger in a fractional-reserve banking system. In December 1930, as the Great Depression deepened, the privately owned Bank of United States in New York collapsed after a run by depositors. Despite its name, it was not a government institution....
(Headline USA) A top Federal Reserve official said Monday that the central bank may have to cause economic pain in the form of higher unemployment to combat stubbornly high inflation.
Austan Goolsbee, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, said in a speech in London that the Fed is...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has approved reimbursing Texas $7.5 billion for costs incurred by the state's border security operations during the Biden administration's border crisis.
It's the first time Texas has received such a reimbursement, thanks to a new federal law.
Gov. Greg Abbott...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Asia continues to position itself to challenge Western dominance in the gold market. This is creating high demand for bullion vaulting space in Singapore.
The West has dominated the gold trade for years, with London, New York, and Switzerland as major players. However, as...
(José Niño, Headline USA) America’s wealthiest political contributors have overwhelmingly favored Republican candidates in the 2026 congressional elections. A Financial Times report found that 16 of the 20 largest donors supported Republican efforts, while George Soros emerged as the most prominent Democratic contributor.
Those 20 donors provided more than one...