(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Trump has told his advisers that he’s planning to speak directly with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, Axios reported on Monday, citing administration officials.
While the Trump administration has continued to build up its forces in the Caribbean, bomb boats in the region, and leak information to...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Since the October interest rate cut, the entire Treasury yield curve from 3-month to 30 years has gone up.
In other words, the Federal Reserve doesn’t have nearly as much control over interest rates as it would have you believe.
And by the way, mortgage rates...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The Israeli Ministry of Defense (IMOD) announced on Wednesday that it has received the 1,000th aircraft as part of an airlift operation delivering US military equipment to Israel that began following the October 7, 2023, attack on southern Israel and the start of Israel’s genocidal campaign...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’s public relations team once sought to recruit Jeffrey Epstein for a fundraiser aimed at helping Democrats elect a House majority in 2014, a newly released email shows.
The May 2013 email, released Tuesday by the House Oversight Committee, showed Lisa Rossi Amor, a partner...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Members of the Texas Congressional delegation are demanding the federal government reimburse the state for the $11.1 billion it spent tackling the Biden administration’s “open-border abdication.”
The lawmakers, including both senators and House members, made the request Friday in a three-page letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi and Homeland Security Secretary...
(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) Responding to Americans' frustrations over high grocery prices, President Donald Trump issued an executive order Friday exempting more than 200 food products from tariffs.
"Certain qualifying agricultural products will no longer be subject to those tariffs, such as certain food not grown in the United...
(Headline USA) Lawyers representing OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma, cities, states, counties, Native American tribes, people with addiction and others across the U.S. delivered a nearly unanimous message for a bankruptcy court judge Friday: Approve a plan to settle thousands of opioid-related lawsuits against the company and members of the...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) The S&P 500 to gold ratio has fallen to the lowest reading since the pandemic and is at a critical support level. This could signal more upside for the yellow metal.
Stocks and gold have risen in tandem in 2025. The S&P 500 is...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) After barely rising in August, consumer debt grew modestly in September, likely reflecting growing debt stress on American households.
The U.S. economy depends on consumers buying stuff. Persistent price inflation forced Americans to blow through their savings and then turn to credit cards to...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) India has sped up efforts to bring its gold home.
According to a Bloomberg report, the Reserve Bank of India repatriated 64 tonnes of gold through the first six months of its fiscal year, which began in April.
The RBI now holds 65 percent of its gold reserves...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) After charting the highest level of gold inflows on record in September, the flow of gold into ETFs slowed modestly in October but remained comfortably above the year-to-date average.
It was the fifth straight month of net gold inflows into ETFs globally.
In total, 54.9...
(Headline USA) A federal judge in Texas has agreed to dismiss a criminal conspiracy charge against Boeing in connection with two 737 Max jetliner crashes that killed 346 people.
In a written decision issued Thursday, U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor approved the federal government’s request to dismiss its case against...