(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...
(Money Metals News Service) Mike Maharrey opens the Midweek Memo with a sharp analogy: if the D.A.R.E. officer lectured against drugs and then left heroin and syringes on the desk, that would mirror Jerome Powell’s performance. The chair talked tough, lowered expectations for future easing, and still delivered another hit...
(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) President Donald Trump's global tariffs are under question as the U.S. Supreme Court hears one of the most significant economic cases in decades with wide-ranging implications for the president's foreign policy agenda and for businesses and consumers around the world.
Supreme Court justices challenged U.S....
(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) For the 14th time, U.S. Senate Democrats on Tuesday filibustered Republicans’ funding bill to reopen the government, guaranteeing that the ongoing shutdown, now on its 35th day, will be the longest in U.S. history.
The government has remained closed since Oct. 1, after Democratic senators...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The Black Lives Matter organization is reportedly under federal investigation over allegations its leaders defrauded donors out of $90 million, most of which came after George Floyd died in 2020.
The group, formally known as the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation Inc., or BLMGNF, has faced mounting...
(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) Economists told the U.S. Supreme Court that President Donald Trump's plan to reduce U.S. trade deficits will backfire, exacerbating the underlying issue the president used to justify the sweeping tariffs.
The economists filed a friend-of-the-court brief arguing that Trump's trade policies won't address the trade...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) The Federal Reserve kicked off its October meeting today (Tuesday, Oct. 28). The central bank is expected to cut interest rates another quarter percent and could announce a timetable to end balance sheet reduction.
But why?
A lot of the people clamoring for looser monetary policy...