(José Niño, Headline USA) As tracking accounts online highlight a series of lucrative, well-timed stock trades by former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s family. President Donald Trump is demanding she be investigated for insider trading.
Earlier this week, the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee narrowly approved a bill, in...
(Headline USA) U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says it has already made tentative job offers to more than 1,000 people as it ramps up hiring following the passage of legislation earlier this month giving the agency a massive infusion of cash.
The agency's spokeswoman, Tricia McLaughlin, said in a statement Thursday...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) The June CPI data indicated that price inflation is heating up, but government numbers only tell part of the story. Raising prices isn’t the only way companies cope with the incessant devaluation of the dollar. Sometimes they resort to a stealthier tactic known as...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) As widely expected, the Federal Reserve maintained its wait-and-see position, taking no interest rate action during the July FOMC meeting.
However, there were some evident cracks in the committee as two members dissented from the majority decision. It was the first time multiple committee...
(Money Metals News Service) In this week's Money Metals Midweek Memo, host Mike Maharrey returned from a cross-country hockey tournament to dig into two massive stories shaping the precious metals landscape: platinum’s under-the-radar explosion in value and the growing trend of nations demanding their gold be brought home.
Together, these shifts...
(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) Senate Republicans continue to hit roadblocks in their race to pass the 12 appropriations bills funding federal agencies for fiscal year 2026 by the Sept. 30 deadline.
Although Republicans originally planned to craft and pass the government funding bills soon after the One Big Beautiful...
(Dan McCaleb, The Center Square) Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern plan to create America’s first transcontinental railroad through a merger, connecting over 50,000 route miles across 43 states from the East Coast to the West Coast, the companies announced Tuesday.
The effort will link about 100 ports across North America,...
(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., introduced a bill Monday to send a tariff rebate check to every working American.
President Donald Trump voiced support for this policy as recently as Monday morning when he discussed record-breaking tariff revenue.
"Working people need relief now," Hawley wrote in...
(José Niño, Headline USA) Qualified non-profit organizations are allowed to bypass restrictions on hiring foreign workers. Research suggests that scientific groups are exploiting this loophole at the expense of the American labor force.
Activist and U.S. Senate candidate Virgil Bierschwale has spotlighted one such non-profit, Battelle Memorial Institute, for allegedly...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) High prices continue to put a drag on Indian gold jewelry sales even as investment buying surges.
India ranks as the second-largest gold market globally behind China.
Gold extended its gains in July, remaining the top Indian investment class with a 28 percent gain on...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The State Department has approved a series of potential arms deals for Ukraine totaling $652 million as the Trump administration continues to take steps to fuel the proxy war with Russia.
The Pentagon’s Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) announced on Wednesday that two potential Foreign Military Sales...
(Money Metals News Service) In a July 2025 episode of Commodity Culture, host Jesse Day of VRIC Media interviewed Jp Cortez, Policy Director and Executive Director at the Sound Money Defense League and representative of Money Metals Exchange.
Their discussion spanned central bank gold buying, the global de-dollarization movement, and recent legislative efforts...