(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...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) The dollar is “unattractive.” At least that's how UBS sees it.
In a recent note, the Swiss investment bank said it is time to “reduce and hedge exposure to USD before further dollar declines.”
The dollar has weakened significantly over the last six months, with the...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The Trump administration has approved a new arms deal for Israel that will provide the country with $510 million worth of Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAMS), kits that turn bombs into precision-guided weapons, as the US continues to provide military aid to support the genocidal war in...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Turks are holding billions of dollars in gold “under their pillows.”
The Turkish central bank estimates that Turkish households have more $311 billion worth of unregistered gold, most of it outside of the official financial system.
The central bank calculated this amount by adding the...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) On Saturday, President Trump doubled down on his call for an end to the trial against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying the US was “not going to stand” for the Israeli leader’s prosecution.
“It is terrible what they are doing in Israel to Bibi Netanyahu. He is...
(Money Metals News Service) In a recent episode of the Money Metals Podcast, analyst Mike Maharrey sat down with Brien Lundin, editor of Gold Newsletter and CEO of the New Orleans Investment Conference, to unpack the forces driving precious metals higher—and why the rally may be far from over.
With gold solidly above $3,000...
(Elyse S. Papel, The Center Square) Following push back from a growing coalition of politicians and public interest groups, U.S. Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, proposed an amended version of his plan to sell off public lands.
While the previous proposal would have required the government to auction off between 2.2 million and...
(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell told Congress on Tuesday that economic data merited lower interest rates but that tariffs could undo the central bank's fight to tame inflation.
"If you just look in the rearview mirror and look at the existing data that we've seen,...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Should the cost of storing physical gold and silver deter people from considering precious metals as an investment option?
Idaho Governor Brad Little thought so.
Last year, he vetoed a bill that would have given the Gem State an option to invest up to 7.5 percent of...