(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Gold demand in China continued to show signs of growth last month despite the relentless climb in prices.
China ranks as the world's largest gold market.
As Jesse Colombo reported, aggressive Chinese futures traders on the Shanghai Futures Exchange (SHFE) helped drive last year's gold bull...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Gold had quite a run in 2024, hitting record highs 40 times. That momentum carried over into 2025, with new record highs above $2,900 an ounce.
One might expect these higher prices to put a drag on demand for gold jewelry, but surprisingly, the impact has been...
(Brien Lundin, Money Metals News Service) Gold continues to explode higher as fractures spread in the global gold market.
I’ve been reporting on the extraordinary gold flows of recent weeks, which have been driving the price of gold to record levels.
Those mysterious flows, generally blamed on concerns over potential U.S. tariffs...
(Money Metals News Service) In the latest episode of the Money Metals Midweek Memo, host Mike Maharrey dives deep into the Federal Reserve’s ever-changing stance on inflation, the reality behind rising consumer prices, and a seemingly unrelated yet important development—the end of the U.S. penny.
Through sharp analysis and historical comparisons,...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has ordered Pentagon leaders to develop plans to make sweeping cuts to the Defense Department’s budget, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday.
According to a memo obtained by the Post, Hegseth’s order calls for an 8% cut to the Pentagon budget each year...
(Headline USA) President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he likes the idea of giving some of the savings from Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency back to U.S. citizens as a kind of dividend.
He said at an investment conference in Miami that the administration is considering a concept in which...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Robert De Niro, the once-acclaimed actor turned leftist activist, faced the wrath of President Donald Trump—well, not the real one—on the streets of New York City on Tuesday.
De Niro was in New York for the premiere of his Netflix show Zero Day when he was confronted by...
(Headline USA) The Trump administration is formally designating eight Latin American crime organizations as “foreign terrorist organizations,” upping its pressure on cartels operating in the U.S. and on anyone aiding them.
The move, carrying out a Jan. 20 executive order by President Donald Trump, names Tren de Aragua in Venezuela, MS-13...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Though it didn’t cite any sources, the Daily Mail reported Wednesday that the Trump administration’s top public health officials support suspending the use of all COVID vaccines on the grounds that they could be causing adverse health reactions.
“Dr Jay Bhattacharya, who has been nominated to...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) On Tuesday, President Trump called for elections to be held in Ukraine and said it was an idea coming from him, not the Russians.
“We have a situation where we haven’t had elections in Ukraine, where we have martial law, essentially martial law in Ukraine, where the leader in Ukraine,...
(Kyle Anzalone, Antiwar.com) Following a high-level meeting between US and Russian officials, the State Department said Washington and Moscow will begin taking steps to normalize the diplomatic relationship between the two superpowers. US-Russian diplomacy sank during the first Donald Trump administration, and Joe Biden cut nearly all contact with Russia after...
(Maire Clayton, Headline USA) The president of New York University College Republicans had to resign Monday after making comments about President Donald Trump's son Barron.
Kaya Walker left her position after she spoke with Vanity Fair where she called the youngest son of the president "an oddity."
“He’s sort of like an...