(Casey Harper, The Center Square) Newly released polling data spelled bad news for President Joe Biden this election year.
Gallup released new polling data which showed independent voters trust former President Donald Trump more than Biden when it comes to the economy.
About 34% of independents said they trusted Biden to...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) There are cracks in the foundation of dollar dominance. Could Chinese gold be the straw that breaks the dollar’s back?
In a column published by the Telegraph, economist Julian Jessop points out that people have been predicting the dollar's demise for decades. Eventually, they'll...
(Clint Siegner, Money Metals News Service) Confidence in institutions such as the Federal Reserve may be falling, but it hasn’t fallen nearly as far or as fast as it should. Trillions of dollars, yen, euros, and yuan are invested according to central bank policy and propaganda. It isn’t going...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) In another stagflation warning sign, the U.S. service sector contracted in April even as service prices rose.
The Institute for Supply Management's non-manufacturing PMI dropped to 49.4 in April, dipping from 51.4 in March. The expectation was for the index to increase to 52.0.
A...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) – U.S. House committees are investigating “ideological bias” of National Public Radio (NPR), a nonprofit news organization established by Congress and partially funded by taxpayers.
NPR has come under fire after its former editor Uri Berliner said it had "lost America's trust" and criticized NPR’s Chief Executive Officer,...
(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) – A judge on Friday ordered a pharmaceutical company to pay $1.086 billion in criminal fines and $450 million in criminal forfeiture for misleading doctors about the safety of an opioid medication.
It was the the second-largest set of criminal financial penalties ever levied against...
(Headline USA) The legal team representing Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J. argued in a filing revealed this week that the Democrat hoarded hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash and gold bars because of “generational trauma,” The Hill reported.
Menendez is facing several federal charges for bribery and acting as a...
(Headline USA) Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., this week defended anti-Israel students on college campuses across the country, arguing they were protesting “for the right reasons.”
During an interview with CNN, Sanders admitted that some of the campus protests have gone too far, but he insisted there was a distinction between those...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Central banks continued to steadily add gold to their reserves in March. On net, central banks globally increased their gold holdings by 16 tons, according to the latest data compiled by the World Gold Council. Buyers added 40 tons of gold to their...
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(Money Metals News Service) Money Metals' Midweek Memo host Mike Maharrey recently interviewed Saleha Mohsin, a senior correspondent at Bloomberg News and author of the new book Paper Soldiers: How the Weaponization of the Dollar Changed the World Order.
The discussion delved into the motivations behind Mohsin's...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) It was an old-fashioned romance scam, involving a man posing as a female online to induce unfortunate men to send him their life savings.
This scam, however, was fairly complex, involving a fake bank website and non-existent gold bars. The alleged perpetrator of this scam, Richard...
(Headline USA) New York City Mayor Eric Adams called on Columbia University to pay up and help cover the cost of the New York Police Department’s efforts to shut down illegal student encampments this week.
Radical student protesters were finally removed from Columbia’s campus on Tuesday night after they took over...