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(Money Metals News Service) In a new Money Metals podcast interview, analyst Mike Maharrey spoke with veteran technical analyst Clive Maund about the Treasury market, soaring government debt, gold, silver, oil, inflation, and the increasingly unstable global fiat monetary system. Clive Maund has been analyzing markets for decades and has...

(Headline USA) Jack Pearadin is the first to admit that his diamond-hunting hobby hasn't paid off, despite sifting rocks for more than a dozen years. But earlier this year, the Navy reservist and his friend shoveled a six-carat diamond from a field in Arkansas where he's found over 300 gems...

(Headline USA) The Federal Reserve’s internal watchdog said Wednesday that the central bank has broadly mismanaged an expansive building renovation project but did not find any criminal violations, as alleged by Trump administration prosecutors. A variety of missteps by the Fed's Board of Governors and staff inflated the cost of...

(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) With Americans questioning the hundreds of thousands of AI-enhanced surveillance cameras across the country, one Republican lawmaker is introducing legislation to curb the worst abuses of the technology. The Stop Flock Abuse Act, which Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., announced he will release, targets the policies...

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) You can file this under the category of "things I never thought I'd need to write." Ladies and gentlemen, don’t give gold to a stranger in a Walmart parking lot, even if they say, “black bug!” Yes, this happened. In real life. It started last April when...

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) In August, South Korea announced plans to expand its gold reserves, but so far it’s only bought paper. Now it looks like the country’s central bank is finally set to get the real thing. To date, the Bank of Korea’s “gold” reserve expansion has involved...

(Headline USA) U.S. employers added a disappointing 29,000 jobs and the unemployment rate ticked up last month, the government reported Friday, a month before voters go to the polls in pivotal midterm elections at a time of discontent over the high cost of living and the state of the economy. Hiring...

(Headline USA) Four astronauts rocketed into orbit Thursday on a space station mission that will stretch until spring, among them a Canadian whose wife will give birth while he’s away. SpaceX launched commander Jessica Watkins and her crew for NASA after a three-week delay to fix their Dragon capsule’s leaking...

(Kyle Anzalone, Antiwar.com) The White House is threatening NATO allies Germany and France for refusing to release diesel fuel from their emergency inventories. “US officials said France and Germany could be cut off from future US diesel exports. Reuters first reported the US threat to its allies on Thursday after...

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) I recently reported that over 7 million ounces of gold flowed out of COMEX vaults the week of Sept. 10-17. Last week, silver flowed back into the COMEX system, partially reversing the drawdown. During the week of Sept. 18-25, around 2.5 million ounces of silver...

(José Niño, Headline USA)  A surveillance technology firm associated with Hunter Biden laptop analyst Yaacov Apelbaum listed Israel’s Prime Minister’s Office among its customers in a 2019 marketing presentation, according to a Newsroom report. According to the Tuesday report, XRVision promoted facial recognition, video analytics, and artificial intelligence based surveillance tools...

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) The Treasury market is in meltdown, and the sector propping it up could ultimately deepen the crisis. The 10-year Treasury yield surged to 5.33 percent overnight, the highest level since 2002. Gold Newsletter publisher Brien Lundin called it “a bond bloodbath.” The problem is nobody...