(José Niño, Headline USA) Rep. Cory Mills, R-Fla. is facing eviction from his luxury Washington D.C. penthouse after months of unpaid rent totaling over $85,000, documents reveal.
According to political reporter Roger Sollenberger, formerly of The Daily Beast, Mills “is being evicted for failure to pay months of rent at...
(Peter St Onge, Money Metals News Service) Donald Trump is threatening to replace Jerome Powell -- or even appoint himself Fed chair.
So it's a fruitful moment to ask: Should central banks be independent?
More importantly, can they be independent?
Or will a central bank inevitably serve their banking masters and the permanent bureaucracy...
(TJ Martinell, The Center Square) Washington state faces deficit spending by 2028 as lawmakers just hit taxpayers with the state's largest combined tax increase – all driven by massive state spending increases over the past decade, an investigation of state budgets by The Center Square found.
Washington state spent about $80 billion...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Self-described democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani has benefited from millions of dollars linked to leftist billionaire George Soros, even after declaring that billionaires shouldn’t exist.
Financial records reviewed by the New York Post show that Soros’s Open Society Foundation has funneled over $36 million to the Working Families...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Silver is still on sale. Despite the June rally that pushed silver from $33 to over $37 an ounce, the metal remains historically underpriced based on several metrics.
To begin with, there is still a historically wide gap between the price of silver and the...
(Andrew Rice, The Center Square) The U.S. Forest Services plans to cut its budget by $391 million for fiscal year 2026, according to a proposed budget request.
A large portion of the cuts to the forest services budget are expected to be implemented into the new U.S. Wildland Fire Service...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Since hitting an all-time high of $3,500 in April, gold has consolidated and generally traded sideways in a range between $3,200 and $3,400 an ounce. Does this mean the bull run is over?
A recent report by Metals Focus argues that while there are still...
(Headline USA) X CEO Linda Yaccarino said she’s stepping down after two years running Elon Musk’s social media platform.
Yaccarino posted a positive message Wednesday about her tenure at the company formerly known as Twitter and said “the best is yet to come as X enters a new chapter with” Musk’s...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Through the first half of 2025, gold-backed funds globally reported the highest semi-annual inflows of metal since H1 2020 in the early months of the pandemic.
After modest outflows of gold in May, flows flipped positive in June with ETFs globally adding 74.6 tonnes...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Strong silver jewelry sales in the U.S. are one of the many factors that pushed the silver market to its fourth straight supply deficit in 2024.
This was one of several interesting stories featured in the latest edition of the Silver Institute's bi-monthly Silver News report.
Based on the survey,...
(Zachery Schmidt, The Center Square) U.S. Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Arizona, reintroduced a bill this week that aims to help areas affected by illegal immigration.
The First Responders Emergency Assistance Act would establish emergency grants for law enforcement and first responders in areas that receive a high volume of calls related to...
(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) After a 27-hour voting session, Senate Republicans narrowly approved their amended version of the House-passed “big, beautiful bill” Tuesday, sending it back to the lower chamber for final approval.
But the Senate’s swath of controversial changes has alienated multiple House Republicans and upset delicate political compromises House...