(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) By fiscal year 2035, the national debt is set to surpass $53 trillion, or 120% of the nation’s Gross Domestic Product, according to a new estimate by the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.
The updated number – which CRFB reached by assuming that all...
(Headline USA) A New York appeals court on Thursday threw out the massive financial penalty a state judge imposed on President Donald Trump, while narrowly upholding a finding that he overinflated his property values to obtain loans—even though Trump repaid those loans and even though the banks never complained.
The ruling...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Earlier this month, Citi raised its gold forecast. Another big bank, UBS, has now followed suit.
The Swiss investment bank nudged its Q1 2026 forecast gold price by $100 to $3,600 an ounce. This would mean new record highs over the next six months or...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Corporate bankruptcies hit a 14-year high in 2024, and the pace continued through the first seven months of 2025.
This should throw cold water on those who imagine the U.S. economy is booming, and it underscores the Catch-22 facing the Federal Reserve as it wrestles with...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) After releasing bombshell evidence of misconduct in the intelligence community, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard announced a sweeping plan to strip down and rebuild the agency.
Gabbard said Wednesday the Trump administration is launching “ODNI 2.0” to slash staff by 40 percent and save tax payers...
(Headline USA) A longtime adviser to New York City Mayor Eric Adams who resigned from his administration while under FBI scrutiny gave a reporter a potato chip bag filled with cash Wednesday following a campaign event, a gift her lawyer later insisted wasn’t an attempted bribe.
The local news site The...
(Money Metals News Service) In this week’s episode of the Money Metals Midweek Memo, host Mike Maharrey explored the parallels between Iran’s recent currency redenomination and the United States’ long history of monetary debasement.
The discussion connected historic and current events to show how inflation is not only persistent but...
(José Niño, Headline USA) After his arrest in a sweeping Las Vegas child sex sting, Israeli cyber chief Tom Artiom Alexandrovich boarded a flight home before his first court hearing, raising sharp questions about Israeli influence in the United States' criminal justice system.
Alexandrovich, who serves as Executive Director of...
(Andrew Rice, The Center Square) The Trump administration is cracking down on noncitizens receiving Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program benefits, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
The center launched an oversight program, in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, to provide states with reports...
(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) A recent analyst downgrade that sent stock Stratasys tumbling did not deter Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., from buying the dip on the Israeli 3-D printing manufacturer.
Given the Florida lawmaker’s role as ranking member of the military construction subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee, that...
(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) The staggering success of President Donald Trump’s federal takeover of Washington, D.C., to address its out-of-control crime spree has led residents in other blue-run urban communities to beg for expansion of the federal police state.
A viral post on X showed what appeared to be a...
(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) Disgraced former FBI Director James Comey’s recent videotaped confession that he was a Taylor Swift superfan perplexed many, fueling both ridicule and rampant speculation among conservative pundits.
According to Grok, the X-based artificial intelligence platform developed by Elon Musk, the move may well have been part...