(Money Metals News Service) In this episode of the Money Metals Midweek Memo, host Mike Maharrey opens with an unexpected comparison between the experience of playing goalie in a chaotic amateur hockey game and navigating today’s financial markets.
Substituting for a team of less experienced players, Maharrey found himself overwhelmed by...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Tesla started a formal process to find its next CEO last month, amidst declining public opinion about billionaire Elon Musk, according to a bombshell report from the Wall Street Journal.
“Board members reached out to several executive search firms to work on a formal process for...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Californians who defraud the taxpayer-funded welfare system could soon catch a break—so long as they don’t steal more than $25,000.
Legislation SB560—introduced by California Democratic state Sen. Lola Smallwood-Cuevas on Friday—would effectively decriminalize welfare fraud up to $25,000, protect potential offenders from perjury charges and block prosecutors...
(Jesse Colombo, Money Metals News Service) After a volatile couple of months filled with relentless news and confusing cross-currents from the Trump administration’s tariff plans and other policies, the financial markets have calmed down in recent weeks—providing a much-needed breather for everyone, myself included.
While it’s been quiet in the...
(Walter Donway, Money Metals News Service) Gold has won the competition — a plebiscite as long-running as established civilizations — to be crowned mankind’s universal choice as a store of value and medium of exchange — as real money. Now, in less than two decades, a potential competitor has...
(José Niño, Headline USA) The purported champions of the "little guy," Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders, were caught living large aboard a $15,000-per-hour private jet en route to a “Fighting Oligarchy” rally.
Footage captured by Fox News shows the far-left New York congresswoman and her longtime democratic socialist ally stepping...
(Lawrence W. Reed, Money Metals News Service) Ships of Britain’s massive Royal Navy, the largest in the world, inflicted great damage on American ports, property, and vessels during the years of the Revolution (1775–1783). Perhaps none of those ships wreaked more havoc than HMS Phoenix, and it accomplished its devious...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) It seems as if gold has been breaking records every week as bulls have run with wild abandon. However, last week, gold quietly hit a very significant milestone without much fanfare, taking out its all-time high in real terms.
For perspective, in October 2023, gold was...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) As gold prices skyrocket, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has resumed issuing gold coins.
The central bank introduced the coins in June 2022. The program was touted as a way for investors to store value in the face of rampant inflation. At the...
(Jan Nieuwenhuijs, Money Metals News Service) As we are in the final stages of a debt cycle that is causing gold to skyrocket, the question arises: how high can gold go?
Comparing the current bull run to the previous two points to a gold run as high as $16,000 per...
(Clint Siegner, Money Metals News Service) There are plenty of frustrated silver bugs. Gold is outperforming once again, and they wonder when silver will finally catch up.
History suggests silver will outshine gold in a bull market for metals. So far, that has not been the case for much of...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) You often hear gold referred to as an “inflation hedge.” Jim Rickards argues that we should really consider gold the “everything hedge.”
Rickards is an investment banker and a well-known commentator and market analyst.
Gold has been on a tear for well over a year....