(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) As is typical in April, the federal government ran a budget surplus last month thanks to the influx of income tax revenue. But despite this seemingly good news, every metric reveals further deterioration in America’s fiscal situation.
The surplus of $215.02 billion was 16.8...
(Headline USA) A man who goes by “Chud the Builder” and livestreams himself saying racially derogatory statements to black people in public settings was arrested and charged with attempted murder after a shooting outside a Tennessee courthouse on Wednesday, authorities said.
Dalton Eatherly, 28, and an unidentified man were involved in...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) In July 2024, India slashed its import tax on gold and silver from 15 percent to 6 percent. This week, the Indian government reversed course, hiking the customs duty back to 15 percent.
The 9 percent duty increase ranks as the largest on record.
The duty on...
(José Niño, Headline USA) An ex-girlfriend of Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., has accused him of offering her $5,000 in cash to drop a wrongful termination complaint, per a story Axios published on Wednesday—nearly a week before his Kentucky Republican primary.
Cynthia West, a social worker and school board candidate in...
(Money Metals News Service) In the latest episode of the Money Metals Midweek Memo, host Mike Maharrey challenged the optimistic mainstream narrative surrounding the U.S. economy, arguing that beneath strong headline numbers lies a far more troubling inflationary and monetary reality.
Maharrey opened with a personal hockey story about an overhyped...
(José Niño, Headline USA) Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes have been named by the White House as possible domestic terrorists, according to Trump's top counterterrorism official Sebastian Gorka, Ken Klippenstein reported on his Substack.
Gorka, a former right wing influencer who now serves as a National Security Council principal, has...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) A California taxpayer-funded program under Gov. Gavin Newsom to provide incarcerated individuals with digital tablets was allegedly exploited to access pornographic material and even groom children outside prison walls, according to a report published Wednesday.
The Newsom administration awarded a $189 million contract for the tablets, which...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Another trove of newly unearthed Biden-era files suggest that the FBI attempted to retain purported evidence related to its prosecution of President Donald Trump until 2030 — when he would presumably be out of office.
The documents, reported Tuesday by Just the News, add to a growing body...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) A CIA whistleblower testified on Wednesday about how former COVID czar Anthony Fauci suppressed the intelligence community’s findings that coronavirus originated from a lab in Wuhan, China.
Speaking to only Republicans because Democrats boycotted the hearing, CIA operations officer James Erdman said that his agency was...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The Israeli government wants President Donald Trump to order a US special forces operation to secure Iran’s uranium that’s enriched at the 60% level, according to a report from Axios, an operation that is fraught with risks and would mean the resumption of full-blown war in...
(José Niño, Headline USA) American auto debt surged to $1.68 trillion by the close of 2025, marking a 37 percent jump from late 2018 when the total sat at $1.23 trillion, CNBC reported. A new analysis by The Century Foundation and Protect Borrowers provided the data exclusively to the...
(José Niño, Headline USA) The Trump administration said Monday it would loan out 53.3 million barrels of crude from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to energy firms as fuel costs soar during the conflict with Iran, Just The News reported.
The release comes after Washington agreed in March to put 172...