(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) There is a lot of talk about whether the Federal Reserve should raise interest rates, but in fact, the market is hiking rates with or without central bank cooperation.
Treasury yields have crept relentlessly higher over the last several months, signaling significant stress in...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) A new Hong Kong-based gold-clearing system will launch in July as part of the Chinese Special Administrative Region’s (HKSAR) push to become a global gold trading hub.
Western markets – London, New York, and Switzerland – have dominated the gold trade for nearly two...
(Headline USA) Kamala Harris “wrote off rural America" during the 2024 presidential campaign and failed to attack Donald Trump with sufficient “negative firepower," according to a long-awaited post-election autopsy released on Thursday by the Democratic National Committee.
The committee's chair, Ken Martin, shared the 192-page report only after facing intense...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Vanessa Trump announced on her personal Instagram page on Wednesday that she has been diagnosed with breast cancer.
Vanessa, who was married to Donald Trump Jr. from 2004 to 2018, did not share specific details about her diagnosis and asked for privacy.
“I’ve recently been diagnosed with breast...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Michael Spitze, the father of admitted child abuser Kyle Spitze, was sentenced to 70 months in prison and three years of supervised release on Wednesday for tampering with one of his son’s victims.
The son, Kyle, was arrested in March 2024 for a slew of child...
(José Niño, Headline USA) Parental rights organization Defending Ed published an investigation revealing that nearly 200 school districts and 30 state government entities spread across 42 states and Washington D.C. publicly promote curriculum materials from the Southern Poverty Law Center.
The SPLC currently faces a federal wire fraud indictment. Prior...
(Headline USA) Members of the "Return to the Land" project in Arkansas say they want to live peacefully as an all-white community while the rest of the country becomes more diverse. But a woman of Jewish ancestry is asking the federal government to stop them.
A real estate broker says...
(Money Metals News Service) Mike Maharrey opened this Midweek Memo with a different format: an unscripted “Ask Mike Anything” episode recorded ahead of travel. Instead of a prepared monologue, he answered listener questions on sound money, precious metals, inflation, AI, Federal Reserve policy, and even his longevity as a...
(Headline USA) Federal prosecutors on Wednesday announced charges against former Cuban President Raúl Castro in the 1996 downing of civilian planes operated by Miami-based exiles as the Trump administration escalated pressure on the socialist government.
The indictment was related to Castro’s alleged role in the shootdown of two small planes...
(Michael Carroll, The Center Square) Six former Spirit Airlines employees, including five Florida residents, have filed a class-action lawsuit alleging that the Florida company’s worker layoffs violate a federal law mandating a 60-day notice prior to such terminations.
The laid-off employees filed the litigation May 12 in the federal bankruptcy...
(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) In a remarkable rebuke of the Trump administration's mission against Iran, the U.S. Senate narrowly advanced a War Powers Resolution when a handful of Republicans joined Democrats in a 50-47 vote.
Sens. Rand Paul, R-Ky.; Susan Collins, R-Maine; Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska; and Bill Cassidy, R-La.,...
(Headline USA) Three people are dead and more than a dozen first responders had to be quarantined and assessed Wednesday for possible exposure to an unidentified substance after being called to a suspected drug overdose at a rural New Mexico home, authorities said.
New Mexico State Police said three of the...