Wednesday, November 12, 2025

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Why Prices Never go Down

(Peter St Onge, Money Metals News Service) Bidenflation is over. But if you feel like prices still aren’t falling, you’re not alone. Since Donald Trump took office, inflation has plunged from a Biden-era 5 percent to just 1.4%. This is actually below the Fed's target of 2%. Normally, at this point,...

SpaceX Rocket Being Tested in Texas Explodes, but No Injuries Reported

(Headline USA) A SpaceX rocket being tested in Texas exploded Wednesday night, sending a dramatic fireball high into the sky. The company said the Starship “experienced a major anomaly” at about 11 p.m. while on the test stand preparing for the tenth flight test at Starbase, SpaceX’s launch site at the...

Fed Holds Rates Steady as Stagflation Worries Mount

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Powell & Company at the Federal Reserve sees an elevated stagflation threat. In response, they decided to do nothing. The Fed held interest rates steady between 4.25 and 4.5 percent. Rates have remained at that level since last December. The official FOMC statement was little changed from...

U.S. Faces First Net Migration Loss in 50 Years

(José Niño, Headline USA) For the first time in 50 years, more people are reportedly leaving the United States than arriving. The Washington Post reported that economists Wendy Edelberg and Tara Watson of the Brookings Institution, in addition to Stan Veuger of the American Enterprise Institute, project in a forthcoming...

Survey Indicates Central Banks Plan to Keep Buying Gold

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Central banks have gobbled up over 1,000 tonnes of gold for three straight years, and most central bankers think the buying trend will continue. Last year was the third-largest expansion of central bank gold reserves on record, coming in just 6.2 tonnes lower than...

IMF Wants Gold-Back ZiG to Be Zimbabwe’s Only Currency

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) The International Monetary Fund (IMF) supports the Zimbabwe gold-backed ZiG “fully becoming a national currency.” Currently, the U.S. dollar serves as the country’s primary currency, with about 80 percent of the country’s transactions using greenbacks. Also known as Zimbabwe Gold, the ZiG is a structured currency backed...

Broken Precious Metal Promises

(Stuart Englert, Money Metals News Service) Whenever the indebted United States nears its legal borrowing limit, the fiscal can kickers in Washington, D.C., and their misinformation-spewing mouthpieces spout an oft-repeated falsehood and make audacious predictions about the nation’s ability to finance its burgeoning debt forever. “The U.S. has never defaulted...

May CPI Ratchets Up Pressure on Fed to Return to Inflation

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) The May CPI report is ratcheting up pressure on Jerome Powell and the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates. In other words, the perception that the inflation problem is solved is raising the specter of more inflation. In a social media post on Wednesday, Vice...

Trump Says Tariff Truce With China Back on Track

(Brett Rowland, The Center Square)  President Donald Trump said Wednesday that U.S. talks with China in London resulted in a tentative deal that still needs China's President Xi Jinping's final approval. The president announced the deal in an all-caps post on Truth Social. "FULL MAGNETS, AND ANY NECESSARY RARE EARTHS, WILL...

A Report on the Bullish Case for Platinum

(Jesse Colombo, Money Metals News Service) After fifteen years of stagnation, platinum has woken up in a big way with an impressive 36% surge over the past two months. Even more exciting, this bull market may just be beginning. Although I typically focus on gold and silver in this newsletter,...

The U.S. Dollar and Delusions of Growth

(Clint Siegner, Money Metals News Service) Americans are accustomed to assets being priced in terms of Federal Reserve note dollars. It makes sense, of course. The dollar is the currency of the realm. There is, however, a real problem with using it as a benchmark. Government inflation statistics cannot be trusted....

Will the Trump Tax Cuts Pay for Themselves?

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Supporters of tax cuts argue that they eventually "pay for themselves" and lower deficits through economic growth and increased revenue, even without significant spending cuts. Recent history casts doubt on this claim. Examining the three major tax cuts over the last 50 years, after initially...
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