(Money Metals News Service) On the Money Metals podcast, host Mike Maharrey sits down with Philip Newman, founding partner and managing director at Metals Focus in London. Newman explains that Metals Focus, launched in 2013, is a pure precious-metals research house; it does not trade.
The firm now fields 30-plus staff across...
(Clint Siegner, Money Metals News Service) Early this year, high premiums developed for COMEX bars in the U.S. thanks to fears of tariffs on importing silver (and gold). In response, traders shipped an estimated 300 tons of silver from London to New York to alleviate that squeeze.
Last month, the...
(Elyse S. Apel, The Center Square) More than half of U.S. households say they’re struggling with debt, according to a new WalletHub survey.
Total household debt increased to $18.59 trillion in the third quarter of 2025, which is $990 billion below the all-time 2008 high of $19.57 trillion.
Still, consumer debt...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Physical silver investment has become a significant driver of overall global silver demand, and four countries dominate the market.
Between 50 and 60 percent of silver demand comes from industrial and tech sectors, with the remaining half split between investment and jewelry demand. Industrial demand...
(Sarah Roderick-Fitch, The Center Square) The Navy’s largest and newest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald Ford, has arrived in the Caribbean region, according to spotters in the region.
U.S. Naval Institute News cited boat spotters in Puerto Rico who eyed the destroyer, USS Bainbridge, on Tuesday. The Bainbridge, part of...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) India has sped up efforts to bring its gold home.
According to a Bloomberg report, the Reserve Bank of India repatriated 64 tonnes of gold through the first six months of its fiscal year, which began in April.
The RBI now holds 65 percent of its gold reserves...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) After charting the highest level of gold inflows on record in September, the flow of gold into ETFs slowed modestly in October but remained comfortably above the year-to-date average.
It was the fifth straight month of net gold inflows into ETFs globally.
In total, 54.9...
(José Niño, Headline USA) An antisemitism task force with ties to the Heritage Foundation revealed on Thursday it would sever its relationship with the conservative organization following widespread criticism of the think tank's support for Tucker Carlson and his interview with nationalist commentator Nick Fuentes.
The National Task Force to...
(José Niño, Headline USA) A coalition of California teachers, students and parents filed a federal lawsuit arguing that a new state law designed to combat antisemitism in schools actually censors legitimate classroom discussion about Israel and Palestine.
The American Arab Anti Discrimination Committee filed a federal lawsuit last Sunday, challenging...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Remember Ray Epps, the J6er who encouraged others to go into the Capitol and committed violence against police officers, only to receive a year of probation for his crimes?
Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., hasn’t forgotten. Massie announced on Friday that he wrote a letter to the FBI about...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) FBI Director Kashyap Patel’s girlfriend, Alexis Wilkins, has sued two more right-wing influencers for suggesting that she’s an Israeli asset. One of the influencers didn’t say she’s an asset, but merely tweeted a suggestive photo of her and Patel.
Wilkins’s lawsuit stems from a Sept. 14 tweet where...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier launched a state investigation Monday into JP Morgan after the bank abruptly closed the accounts of President Donald Trump’s media company in 2024.
Uthmeier announced the probe in a video statement on X and in a letter to JP Morgan CEO Jamie...