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(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...

(Interview Begins around 6:07 mark) (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...

(Money Metals News Service) In a recent episode of The Bryan Hyde Show, Bryan Hyde interviewed Mike Maharrey, an analyst and writer associated with Money Metals Exchange and the Tenth Amendment Center. Maharrey brought his expertise in macroeconomics and constitutional principles to discuss pressing issues in monetary policy and...

(Headline USA) On the heels of a newly passed $95 billion aid package for Ukraine and other foreign nations, as well as more rounds of controversial student-loan "amnesty" announced by the Biden administration, the root cause of inflation---unfettered federal spending and borrowing---has yet to be addressed in any meaningful...

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and his fellow central bankers are swinging at inflation like a blindfolded kid trying to break a piñata. Do you remember the March FOMC meeting? The Fed released its projections for rate cuts in the coming months. The consensus...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) President Joe Biden’s wave of a magic wand has made billions of dollars in college debt disappear for students who attended a now-defunct university.  On Wednesday, Biden announced the “cancellation” of $6.1 billion in student loans for 317,000 students who had enrolled at the Art Institutes.  “This institution...