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(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Twitter owner Elon Musk might soon provide a remedy to expose Congress's efforts to secretly push through large pieces of legislation without allowing Americans to scrutinize and review their contents.  Musk announced on Monday that his artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok, will feature the capability to summarize what...

(Mike Gleason, Money Metals News Service) Precious metals markets enter trading for March with gold bulls wondering whether the monetary metal is finally ready to march up to new highs. Gold spent the first two months of the year locked in a trading range between $2,000 and just under $2,100...

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) While your paycheck might be a little fatter, you’re actually earning less because price inflation continues to gobble up your paycheck. As pundits and politicians slice and dice various inflation reports, debating whether or not the Fed has finally tackled inflation, things aren’t getting...

(Headline USA) During a recent spate of airline catastrophes or mid-air near-catastrophes, former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg was nowhere to be found.  Yet, after nary a word to address the growing issue of plane failures---which some attribute to the push to diversify flight crews and engineering staffs---the Biden...

(Christian Wade, The Center Square) New York lawmakers are considering a Democratic proposal that would create a new multibillion-dollar fund to provide unemployment benefits for illegal immigrants. The proposal, which is currently before the state's Senate Finance Committee, would create a $500 million trust fund to pay jobless benefits for workers...

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) You can effectively use a stick to keep people in line. But you might find yourself in trouble if they pick up a bigger stick. The United States could be in danger of finding this out the hard way. The U.S. government uses the dollar’s...

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Owning silver and gold is a good way to hedge against counterparty risk. What exactly is counterparty risk? In simple terms, it is the possibility that the party on the other side of a transaction might not fulfill its obligation. For instance, if I loan you...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Concerned about a weaponized financial system, many countries have signaled plans to remove their gold and other assets from the U.S. in the wake of the unprecedented Western sanctions imposed on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine. And at least one congressman is demanding answers from...

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Gold and silver are often disparaged as "useless" or "barbarous relics" by investors and economists. But as Mike Maharrey explains in this episode of the Money Metals' Midweek Memo, gold and silver are real money. In this show, Mike argues that a return to...

(Casey Harper, The Center Square) The Republican-led House Oversight Committee is launching an investigation into how large investors' woke policies are impacting Americans. House Oversight Chair Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., sent a letter this week to Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System General Counsel Mark Van Der Weide...

(Headline USA) Ousted CNN host Don Lemon will reportedly receive a $24.5 million payout from the network as part of a settlement reached nearly a year after his firing. The payout equals the amount Lemon would have been paid had he stayed on with CNN through the end of his contract,...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Three House Republicans have introduced a bill that would restrict corporations and government agencies from tracking gun purchases made by law-abiding Americans. The Protecting Privacy in Purchases Act—introduced last week by Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., alongside Reps. Richard Hudson, R-N.C., and Andy Barr, R-Ariz.—would ban the...