(Headline USA) Oregon's governor declared a state of emergency Monday to ensure that enough fuel arrives to the state while the Olympic Pipeline, which supplies more than 90% of the state's fuel, remains shut down due to a leak ahead of Thanksgiving travel.
Gov. Tina Kotek's declaration is intended to...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The Democrats had a strong election showing this month, winning the Virginia and New Jersey governor races, among others. But they had to go into debt to do it.
According to the New York Times, the Democratic National Committee took out a $15 million loan last month....
(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) Indiana Gov. Mike Braun and a coalition of state financial officers and lawmakers are urging Congress and President Donald Trump to address the national debt crisis before the nation's 250th birthday.
The group sent a letter to Congress and the president pushing for action on...
(José Niño, Headline USA) Dropsite News reported that Jeffrey Epstein leveraged his personal friendship with a Swiss banking heiress to raise funds for Israeli cyberweapons development, according to newly released documents that reveal a far closer relationship than previously disclosed.
On July 31, 2019, just eleven days before Jeffrey Epstein...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) The Italian government needs money and wants to tap private gold holdings to get it.
Many Italians own undocumented gold. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s government has come up with a scheme to entice people to declare their gold holdings, have them appraised, and...
(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) Quietly tucked inside Republicans’ funding deal to end the government shutdown is a provision wiping the congressional Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGO) scorecard, effectively forgiving nearly $3.4 trillion in deficits.
When Republicans passed their budget reconciliation bill in July, which included a permanent extension of the 2017 tax...
(Jesse Colombo, Money Metals News Service) A few days ago, I published a popular report called “Why Gold’s Bull Market Is Still Young,” where I analyzed gold’s current secular bull market by comparing it to its previous two secular bull markets in the 1970s and the 2000s.
I examined how...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) There has been a lot of talk about tariff $2,000 rebate checks. If they materialize, you should consider using them to buy gold or silver.
It appears the Trump administration is serious about this proposal, although there are plenty of question marks. On Wednesday, White...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has officially added silver to its list of “critical minerals.” This could put further demand pressure on a metal already in short supply. It also increases the possibility of tariffs on silver.
The USGS critical mineral list was established in...
(Clint Siegner, Money Metals News Service) Early this year, high premiums developed for COMEX bars in the U.S. thanks to fears of tariffs on importing silver (and gold). In response, traders shipped an estimated 300 tons of silver from London to New York to alleviate that squeeze.
Last month, the...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier launched a state investigation Monday into JP Morgan after the bank abruptly closed the accounts of President Donald Trump’s media company in 2024.
Uthmeier announced the probe in a video statement on X and in a letter to JP Morgan CEO Jamie...
(Headline USA) The grim task of finding and identifying victims from the firestorm that followed a UPS cargo plane crash in Louisville, Kentucky, entered a third day Thursday as investigators gathered information to determine why the aircraft caught fire and lost an engine on takeoff.
The inferno consumed the enormous...