(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Central banks took up where they left off in 2023, adding more gold to their stockpiles to kick off the new year.
Globally, central banks increased their gold reserves by a net 39 tons in January, according to the latest data compiled by the...
(Thomas L. Hogan, Money Metals News Service) During the pandemic recovery, inflation reached the highest rates in 40 years, largely driven by the Federal Reserve’s excessive monetary policy. The Fed got “behind the curve” by not raising its interest rate target fast enough, even once it became apparent its...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) The United States enjoys the privilege of issuing the world's reserve currency. But it increasingly uses that privilege as a hammer to shape foreign policy.
Could Americans end up feeling the blows from that hammer?
Economist Jim Rickards, the author of Currency Wars, said he...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) The U.S. began adding $1 trillion worth of debt about every three months beginning last June, a Bank of America investment strategist Michael Hartnett first pointed out in an investment note published last week.
The national debt is currently $34.48 trillion and rising. It surpassed...
(Mike Gleason, Money Metals News Service) Precious metals markets enter trading for March with gold bulls wondering whether the monetary metal is finally ready to march up to new highs.
Gold spent the first two months of the year locked in a trading range between $2,000 and just under $2,100...
(Headline USA) During a recent spate of airline catastrophes or mid-air near-catastrophes, former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg was nowhere to be found.
Yet, after nary a word to address the growing issue of plane failures---which some attribute to the push to diversify flight crews and engineering staffs---the Biden...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Owning silver and gold is a good way to hedge against counterparty risk.
What exactly is counterparty risk?
In simple terms, it is the possibility that the party on the other side of a transaction might not fulfill its obligation.
For instance, if I loan you...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Gold and silver are often disparaged as "useless" or "barbarous relics" by investors and economists. But as Mike Maharrey explains in this episode of the Money Metals' Midweek Memo, gold and silver are real money.
In this show, Mike argues that a return to...
(Headline USA) The Supreme Court cast doubt Monday on state laws that could affect how social-media publishers such as Facebook, TikTok, Twitter and YouTube regulate content posted by their users.
The cases are among several this term in which the justices could set standards for free speech in the digital age.
In nearly...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Net central bank gold buying exceeded 1,000 tons two straight years, and commodity analysts at ANZ Bank expect central bank gold demand to continue hot for at least the next six years.
central banks could purchase over 600 tons of gold annually until...
(Mike Gleason, Money Metals News Service) As another potential government shutdown looms, precious metals markets continue to consolidate.
Although big price breakouts in gold and silver aren’t materializing quite yet, bulls are seeing some signs of gathering strength in the metals space. Gold has successfully tested the $2,000 level multiple...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) According to the latest Consumer Price Index (CPI) data, prices rose by 3.1 percent over the last year.
Based on my own experience at my local shopping center, that seems low.
And it may well be.
There are reasons to doubt the accuracy of CPI data.
According...