(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) A San Francisco city worker was caught multiplying like rabbits—at least on paper—after fabricating records for more than a dozen children in a scheme to defraud taxpayers of more than $500,000 in government entitlements.
Daisy Avalos, a staffer in the San Francisco Human Services Agency, and her...
(Money Metals News Service) The Kentucky legislature has overwhelmingly passed a new sound money bill, sending the measure to Gov. Andy Beshear for his signature.
House Bill 2 aims to prevent the collection of sales taxes on gold and silver, and would enable taxpayers to sue the state for recovery...
(Jesse Colombo, Money Metals News Service) The financial markets have been all over the place this week, with stocks swinging back and forth without a clear direction.
The session opened on a positive note after a benign U.S. Consumer Price Index (CPI) report showed core inflation rising just 3.1% in...
(Money Metals News Service) In this week’s episode of the Money Metals Midweek Memo, host Mike Maharrey went into a deep discussion on the weaponization of the U.S. dollar, the global response to financial sanctions, and the ongoing trend of de-dollarization.
Maharrey revisited a 2019 appearance on RT, where he predicted...
(Money Metals News Service) The Dow, S&P 500, and the Nasdaq all sold off viciously yesterday, with the Nasdaq having its worst day since 2022. This brings overall stock market losses to $4 trillion since last month's highs.
Shares of the "Magnificent Seven," the companies largely responsible for the strong...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) An end to the dollar’s status as the world’s reserve currency would mean disaster for the U.S. economy. The United States depends on global demand for dollars to facilitate its borrowing and spending. The greenback’s status helps support America’s economic and military dominance.
You...
(Ryan McMaken, Money Metals News Service) In recent days, President Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Senator Rand Paul, and some others have pressed for an audit of the US gold reserves, with a special focus on the gold at Fort Knox.
This is perfectly reasonable given that the U.S. gold reserves—which...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) The National Bank of Kazakhstan (NBK) recently announced plans to sell dollars to ease the inflationary pressure caused by its gold purchases.
The Kazakh central bank buys most of its gold from domestic production, growing its reserves without engaging in the world gold market.
Kazakhstan...
(Headline USA) President Barack Obama’s White House recognized Amy Gleason as a “Champion of Change” in the industry. When the coronavirus struck in 2020, she was a health care technologist in the first Trump White House who worked grueling hours building data systems to guide the federal response.
Now, her...
(Headline USA) Over the month of February, U.S. employers added roughly 151,000 jobs. Per a Labor Department report on Friday, this marked a notable increase in job creation from January, when U.S. businesses added 125,000 in January.
Economists initially projected that businesses would add 160,000 new jobs in February. That...
(Brien Lundin, Money Metals News Service) Well, that was quick. I recently wrote about the detailed technical setup for gold that was predicting a correction in the gold price. I shared a couple of areas of concern.
First, gold’s relative strength index (RSI) had risen to overbought levels. We’ve seen...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Strong demand for gold coupled with a movement of metal to New York has caused a dramatic gold bar production problem at the state-owned Korea Minting and Security Printing Corporation (KOMSCO).
KOMSCO mints gold coins and bars, along with other "security items" including banknotes, IDs, and passports. Among...