(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) With the price of gold at record highs and demand surging in Asia, many ultra-wealthy families are embracing a 19th-century model and jumping into the gold business, taking on the role of bullion traders, financing, shipping, and flipping gold without the middlemen.
The Business Times highlighted...
Hundreds of federal agents descended on a sprawling site where Hyundai manufactures electric vehicles in Georgia and detained 475 people, most of them South Korean nationals…
(Peter St Onge, Money Metals News Service) If Trump takes over the Fed will inflation get even worse?
Or is the Fed the heroic defender of hard money that its defenders claim?
Last week, Donald Trump fired Fed member Lisa Cook for alleged mortgage fraud — the first time in the Fed’s 112...
(Money Metals News Service) Share prices for precious metals mining companies finally started responding to higher metal prices.
The XAU -- a popular index fund containing publicly traded companies mining for both gold and silver -- began a run higher 18 months ago after going nowhere for the decade before.
Today,...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) We know that people have valued gold and silver for thousands of years, but new evidence reveals that people were using the metals in a much more sophisticated way earlier than originally thought.
French researchers have found the oldest known indirect evidence of gold...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) After releasing bombshell evidence of misconduct in the intelligence community, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard announced a sweeping plan to strip down and rebuild the agency.
Gabbard said Wednesday the Trump administration is launching “ODNI 2.0” to slash staff by 40 percent and save tax payers...
(Daniel Lacalle, Money Metals News Service) Central banks have become the dominating force in financial markets.
Easing and tightening decisions move all assets from bonds to private equity. Their role is supposed to be to control inflation, provide price stability, and ensure normal market functions.
However, there is little evidence of...
(Alton Wallace, The Center Square) Oil and gas production resumed on May 15 that had been out of service for 10 years after an oil spill off the California coast, with the restart of the Santa Ynez Unit in the Santa Barbara Channel expected to boost U.S. energy supplies...
(Clint Siegner, Money Metals News Service) Rumors of gold revaluation have been in the news lately. One thing is clear. Politicians have no interest in using the nation’s gold reserves for anything like the original purpose.
Americans get smoke and mirrors instead. Officials may like to point to the large reserves and...
(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) U.S. businesses and their partners across the globe are looking to make sure they comply with the highest import duties in decades amid a worldwide focus on President Donald Trump's slate of tariffs.
Since retaking office, Trump has hit nearly every nation with new tariffs...
(Money Metals News Service) In a recent Money Metals podcast, host Mike Maharrey spoke with Jeff Clark, a veteran gold and silver analyst and founder of TheGoldAdvisor.com, about the state of the precious metals markets, mining stocks, and the forces shaping investor sentiment.
Clark launched The Gold Advisor during the COVID-19 pandemic and is the...