(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Powell & Company at the Federal Reserve sees an elevated stagflation threat. In response, they decided to do nothing.
The Fed held interest rates steady between 4.25 and 4.5 percent. Rates have remained at that level since last December.
The official FOMC statement was little changed from...
(Jesse Colombo, Money Metals News Service) After yesterday's 4.49% surge, platinum has broken through the key $1,200 to $1,300 resistance zone that had been a major hurdle—an encouraging bullish signal.
Last week, I published a detailed report on the bullish case for platinum—even though my usual focus is on gold and silver....
(Money Metals News Service) This week’s Money Metals Midweek Memo podcast, hosted by Mike Maharrey, delivers a sharp and timely analysis of the accelerating global pivot away from the U.S. dollar and the growing strategic importance of gold.
Maharrey ties together current events, economic indicators, and monetary trends to highlight how central...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The Democratic National Committee may soon find itself in the red and forced to take out loans just to keep operations running after its disastrous 2024 performance and internal fights over how to counter President Donald Trump’s second-term agenda.
The DNC’s financial woes were reported Wednesday by...
(Dave Mason, The Center Square) A federal judge was wrong to second-guess President Donald Trump’s federalization of the California National Guard, attorney Brett Schumate argued Tuesday before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit.
Schumate, an assistant attorney general, made the argument during an appeal of last week’s U.S....
(Caroline Boda, The Center Square) Republican’s massive tax and spending bill would increase the U.S. deficit by $2.8 trillion over 10 years when the economic growth of the bill is taken into account, the Congressional Budget Office says.
CBO previously projected that the budget reconciliation bill would increase the deficit...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) In May 2023, Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes hired a non-profit group called “States United Democracy Center” to help target conservatives who dared contest the state’s controversial 2020 election results. About 11 months later, Mayes announced indictments in Arizona’s so-called “fake electors” case.
Fast forward another...
(José Niño, Headline USA) For the first time in 50 years, more people are reportedly leaving the United States than arriving.
The Washington Post reported that economists Wendy Edelberg and Tara Watson of the Brookings Institution, in addition to Stan Veuger of the American Enterprise Institute, project in a forthcoming...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The FBI has reportedly released previously hidden documents, which show that China was meddling in the 2020 election to help tip the scales towards President Joe Biden.
The FBI documents come from August 2020, when the bureau received a tip from a confidential informant, who alleged...
(Sarah Roderick-Fitch, The Center Square) President Donald Trump appears to break from his intelligence director on earlier claims that Iran wasn’t producing military weapons.
U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said in March, while speaking before a Senate intelligence briefing, that Iran wasn’t building a nuclear weapon.
However, as Trump...
(Sarah Roderick-Fitch, The Center Square) After leaving the G7 summit ahead of schedule, President Donald Trump quashed any talk of trying to broker a ceasefire between Israel and Iran.
Trump told reporters onboard Air Force One early Tuesday morning he wasn’t looking for a ceasefire but is seeking “a real...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed in a recent interview on Fox News that Iran was responsible for last year assassination attempts on President Donald Trump. No public evidence exists for such a claim.
Netanyahu’s remarks come as his country continues to lobby for U.S. support...