(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) An interesting development in the COMEX silver exchange seems to reflect an accelerating silver squeeze.
The stage was set for a silver squeeze last April when significant amounts of metal moved from London to New York, driven by tariff worries. The displacement of metal,...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) 2025 was quite the year for precious metals. What does 2026 have in store for gold, silver, platinum, and palladium?
Last year, gold rose by over 64 percent, setting 53 new record highs along the way. Silver gained just under 148 percent. Platinum’s price...
(Headline USA) Thousands of nurses in three hospital systems in New York City went on strike Monday after negotiations through the weekend failed to yield breakthroughs in their contract disputes.
“Nurses on strike! ... Fair contract now!” they shouted on a picket line outside NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital's campus in Upper Manhattan....
(Headline USA) Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Sunday the Department of Justice has served the central bank with subpoenas and threatened it with a criminal indictment over his testimony this summer about the Fed's building renovations.
The subpoenas relate to Powell's testimony before the Senate Banking Committee in June, the...
(Morgan Sweeney, The Center Square) December’s jobs data changed little from November, rounding out an underwhelming year for the U.S. labor market.
Initial estimates put job gains at 50,000, though if December is like every other month this year, that number will be revised downward in the coming months.
By comparison,...
(Chris Wade, The Center Square) New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's push to stop the bankruptcy sale of more than 5,000 rent-subsidized apartments in the city has been blocked, temporarily, by the federal courts.
Mamdani, who was sworn into office last week, directed the city’s Law Department shortly after taking...
(Kim Jarrett, The Center Square) The average cost of child care for infants in Tennessee is $13,926, more expensive than tuition at the state's four public universities, according to a report from the Tennessee Commission on Children and Youth.
The State of the Child in Tennessee 2025 Report examined child-related...
(Money Metals News Service) In a recent episode of the Money Metals podcast, host Mike Maharrey welcomes back Greg Weldon and notes Weldon’s long career that began in the 1980s on the trading floor in the gold and silver pits.
Maharrey says the last time Weldon appeared, in mid-October, gold had just pushed...