(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) As expected, India's recent gold import tax cut lowered prices and spurred demand for the yellow metal.
India ranks as the world's second-largest gold consumer behind China.
Late last month, the Indian government cut taxes on gold and silver imports by more than half, lowering...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Dollar dominance is slowly ebbing as the world looks to diversify away from the greenback.
The share of dollars making up global reserves has dropped by 14 percent since the turn of the century, according to data compiled by the Atlantic Council.
As of 2002,...
(Chris Powell, Money Metals News Service) Responding to the recent commentary about the idea to spectacularly increase the U.S. money supply via the minting and depositing at the Federal Reserve of one or two platinum coins of trillion-dollar denominations, a friend asks: What would a trillion-dollar platinum coin do to...
(Headline USA) CNN host Michael Smerconish admitted this week that vice presidential pick Tim Walz’s 1995 drunken driving arrest posed a serious problem for Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign.
Walz was arrested in 1995 after being pulled over for going 96 mph in a 55 mph-zone and subsequently failing a sobriety...
(Headline USA) An Indian-born magistrate, appointed by the radical D.C. District Court, on Tuesday disqualified a pro-Trump lawyer from representing a prominent funder of election skeptics who is being sued by Dominion Voting Systems.
It marked the latest example of allies and supporters of former President Donald Trump being targeted...
(Money Metals News Service) In a recent Money Metals podcast, host Mike Maharrey interviewed Frank Holmes, the CEO and Chief Investment Officer of U.S. Global Investors, and Executive Chairman of HIVE Blockchain Technologies.
Holmes shared his extensive knowledge of various financial and market trends, providing insights into the current economic...
(Headline USA) An election board in one of Georgia's largest counties has voted to start charging people who challenge the eligibility of voters for the cost of notifying the challenged voters.
The Cobb County Board of Elections and Registrations voted 4-1 on Tuesday to adopt the rule. Debbie Fisher, a...
(Headline USA) Cisco Systems is planning to lay off 7% of its employees, its second round of job cuts this year, as the company shifts its focus to more rapidly growing areas in technology, such as artificial intelligence and cybersecurity.
The company based in San Jose, California, did not specify...
(Headline USA) As Arizona voters prepare to decide in the fall whether to enshrine abortion as a right in the state constitution, a pro-life informational pamphlet can refer to an embryo or fetus as an “unborn human being," the state’s highest court ruled Wednesday.
The Arizona Supreme Court justices sided...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Officials are refusing to release autopsy records for Trump shooter Thomas Crooks, and bombshell findings from Rep. Clay Higgins, R-La., may explain why.
Higgins, who’s on the House Task Force to investigate the Trump assassination attempt, issued his preliminary findings Thursday, telling the public that the...
(Headline USA) Facebook and Instagram parent Meta Platforms has shut down CrowdTangle, a tool widely used by leftists to monitor social media posts and promote censorship on the company's social-media sites.
Wednesday's shutdown, which Meta announced earlier this year, has been protested by several activist organizations hoping the Mark Zuckerberg-run...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The Wall Street Journal published a report Thursday that implicates Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the 2022 attack on the Nord Stream gas pipelines that run between Russia and Germany—one of the worst ecoterrorism incidents in world history.
The WSJ report is one of many accounts of...