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(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Gold primarily functions as a financial asset; however, it has other practical uses, despite the ignorant assertion by some that it is a “useless metal.” In the first quarter, 81.6 tonnes of gold were used in tech and industrial applications. That was a 1...

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Earlier this year, the Ghanaian government announced a scheme to buy 127 tonnes of gold from “artisanal” and small-scale mining (ASM) operations to boost reserves and stem smuggling. Now the government is asking large-scale miners in the country to sell 30 percent of their annual output...

(José Niño, Headline USA) The Israeli military dropped all charges against five soldiers accused of sexually assaulting a Palestinian detainee, and by April 2026 those soldiers returned to reserve service with no completed internal investigation. According to the BBC, the military cited "complexities in the evidentiary structure" as its reason...

(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) Two weeks since Democrats finally ended the longest federal shutdown in history --- surpassing by more than a month the record they set last year --- the Senate unanimously passed a resolution via voice vote that would stop its own members from receiving paychecks during...

(José Niño, Headline USA) PayPal agreed to forgo roughly $30 million in transaction fees to settle a Justice Department probe into allegations that the financial services company adopted unlawful preferences for minority owned businesses, the Wall Street Journal reported. Justice Department officials had been investigating whether PayPal violated a federal...

(Money Metals News Service) In a recent episode of the Money Metals Podcast, host Mike Maharrey sat down with veteran market analyst J. Michael Oliver, founder of Momentum Structural Analysis (MSA), for a sweeping discussion on precious metals, government debt, the stock market, and what Oliver believes could become a historic turning...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The Cuban government has said that it has run out of oil reserves under the ramped-up US oil embargo on the country, which has caused a devastating humanitarian crisis and widespread power outages across the country. “We have absolutely no fuel oil, absolutely no diesel,” Vicente de...

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Hungry? Eat gold. Seriously. It’s a thing. Mind you, it’s not a thing that interests me in the least. But some people do eat gold. The other day, I was doing a little headline search for gold stories, and I ran across a blog post...

(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) President Donald Trump is asking Congress to approve the largest military budget in American history for an agency that has never passed a financial audit. The Department of Defense, rebranded the Department of War by the Trump administration, says it has a new plan to...

(Headline USA) A former New York City judge who resigned last year while under investigation for professional misconduct was charged Wednesday with abusing his position to swindle real estate investors out of at least $5 million and then using some of the loot to pay his own bills. Edward Harold King,...

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) As is typical in April, the federal government ran a budget surplus last month thanks to the influx of income tax revenue. But despite this seemingly good news, every metric reveals further deterioration in America’s fiscal situation. The surplus of $215.02 billion was 16.8...

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) In July 2024, India slashed its import tax on gold and silver from 15 percent to 6 percent. This week, the Indian government reversed course, hiking the customs duty back to 15 percent. The 9 percent duty increase ranks as the largest on record. The duty on...