(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) The Thai government wants to mitigate risk in its pension fund so it's turning to gold and oil.
Songpol Chevapanyaroj serves as the secretary general of Thailand's Government Pension Fund (GPF). He told the Bangkok Post that fund management has become more difficult due...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Why is CNN suddenly highlighting an Austrian free-market economist? You can thank a Brazilian UFC fighter.
After a recent victory, a bruised and bloodied Renato Moicano gave a shoutout to Ludwig von Mises and the U.S. Constitution.
“I love America. I love the Constitution. I...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) If the hotter-than-expected March CPI data wasn't enough to convince you, there is more evidence that the "cooling inflation" we saw late last year was transitory.
The media tends to focus on the Consumer Price Index but the Federal Reserve's favorite inflation measure is...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Could the movement of gold from West to East set the stage for a gold-backed currency?
Some analysts think that might be the case.
And if that is the direction the world is heading, it would be disastrous for the U.S. dollar.
The impact remains unclear, but...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., appeared for a softball interview on MSNBC on Monday but quickly became enraged when the anchor called her out on a politically inconvenient fact.
Pelosi participated in a live interview on Katy Tur Reports, where she attempted, albeit unsuccessfully, to make the...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The Patriot Front was out and about over the weekend in Charleston, West Virginia, sparking the regular online commentary about whether the right-wing nationalist group is comprised of “feds.”
At front and center of the Charleston march was Patriot Front leader Thomas Rousseau, who was recently...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The Justice Department is scrambling to fight multiple parties seeking to obtain the audio recording of special counsel Robert Hur’s interview with President Joe Biden.
Hur’s interview underpinned the special counsel’s infamous February report, in which he explained that he declined to prosecute the sitting President...
(Headline USA) For decades, tourists to Hawaii have brought home gift boxes of the islands’ famous chocolate-covered macadamia nuts for friends and family, but these days many of the kernels in the package might not be Hawaii-grown.
This little-known fact is surfacing at the state Legislature as lawmakers wrestle over...
(Headline USA) On a three-lane test track along the Monongahela River, an 18-wheel tractor-trailer rounded a curve. No one was on board.
A quarter-mile ahead, the truck's sensors spotted a trash can blocking one lane and a tire in another. In less than a second, it signaled, moved into the...
(Headline USA) U.S. intelligence officials have determined that Russian President Vladimir Putin likely didn’t order the death of imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny in February, according to an official familiar with the determination.
While U.S. officials believe Putin was ultimately responsible for the death of Navalny, who endured brutal conditions during his...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, is pushing back against the notion that the United States can sustainably finance multiple global conflicts without compromising its national security.
During the latest installment of Fox News Sunday, Vance responded to Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who had defended the allocation of $60...
(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) The former U.S. Comptroller General said Congress' failure to address the federal debt burden was "irresponsible."
David Walker, former Comptroller General of the United States and a member of the Main Street Economics Advisory Board, said recent economic data should prompt lawmakers to take action...