(Headline USA) Soaring gas prices are expected to produce a spike in inflation when the government reports consumer prices for March on Friday, likely unnerving the inflation fighters at the Federal Reserve and heightening the political challenges of rising costs for the White House.
Inflation probably rose to 3.4% in...
(Andrew Rice, The Center Square) About $607 million was stolen from EBT accounts in 2025, according to a new report.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5aXHRYvaRw
Propel, an EBT benefits tracking program, found large amounts of benefit theft from cards used as a part of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. Among people whose benefits...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The true total of US national security spending in 2027 will exceed $2.5 trillion, far beyond the already record-shattering $1.5 trillion military budget President Donald Trump has requested, according to veteran defense analyst Winslow Wheeler.
Wheeler, who spent decades working in Washington for senators and the Government...
(José Niño, Headline USA) Fresh government statistics reveal that the American fertility rate reached a new minimum in 2025. This downturn continues a shrinking trend that has lasted for 20 years.
According to research from the CDC, the number of births per 1,000 women of reproductive age slid to 53.1...
(Headline USA) The American economy, slowed by last fall's 43-day government shutdown, grew at a sluggish 0.5% annual pace from October through December, the Commerce Department reported Thursday in a downgrade of its previous estimate.
U.S. gross domestic product — the nation's output of goods and services — decelerated in...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Unsurprisingly, given the significant price corrections in January and after the onset of the Iran conflict, significant amounts of metal flowed out of gold ETFs in March. However, it was a tale of regions, with North American funds accounting for the bulk of...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) The bulk of the U.S. gold reserves held in Fort Knox is made up of impure “non-standard” bars that don’t qualify for use in international settlements.
In practice, this means that most of America’s massive gold stockpile is illiquid and wouldn’t be readily accepted...
(Money Metals News Service) In this episode of the Money Metals Midweek Memo, host Mike Maharrey opens with a simple but effective point. People often give one reason for doing something, and that reason may be true, but it may not be the whole truth. He uses a personal...
(Liam Hibbert, The Center Square) California gas prices climbed as high as $6 a gallon as oil prices skyrocketed ahead of President Donald Trump's deadline on Iran to reopen oil trade routes in the Strait of Hormuz.
Prices rose in the Southwest before Trump on Tuesday evening announced a two-week...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s running mate, Adrienne Adams, funneled $435,000 in taxpayer dollars to a Brooklyn-based migrant shelter provider now under federal corruption probe, according to a Sunday report.
Adams, the former speaker of the New York City Council, used her office’s discretionary funding to steer...
(Tate Miller, The Center Square) An education group has uncovered that teacher’s union the National Education Association has given nearly two million dollars in donations since 2020 to an organization that trains for May Day school “walk-in” protests, as well as demands agendas such as “tax the rich” and...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) In what seems like a groundbreaking move, an Indian gold ETF is set to back its fund with gold futures contracts, as well as physical metal.
ETF is an acronym for “Exchange Traded Fund.” In simplest terms, an ETF represents a basket of investments...