(Clive Maund, Money Metals News Service) Gold has made impressive gains so far this year, but when it spiked up to touch $3,500 in the middle of April, it became heavily overbought. That's when gold went into a rectangular consolidation pattern that has given time for the overbought condition to fully...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Silver is still on sale. Despite the June rally that pushed silver from $33 to over $37 an ounce, the metal remains historically underpriced based on several metrics.
To begin with, there is still a historically wide gap between the price of silver and the...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) The other day, I was sitting at my desk when my phone buzzed. It was a text.
According to the Florida Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV), I had unpaid traffic tickets. Apparently, the FDOT moved its HQ to the Philippines, based on the phone...
(Andrew Rice, The Center Square) The U.S. Forest Services plans to cut its budget by $391 million for fiscal year 2026, according to a proposed budget request.
A large portion of the cuts to the forest services budget are expected to be implemented into the new U.S. Wildland Fire Service...
(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) Nearly 46 million acres of forest and farmland are held by foreign investors, including by countries hostile to America, according to data released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
The Foreign Farm Land Purchases map, unveiled to the public Thursday, highlights the increase of “foreign...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., reportedly said this week that he provided the Justice Department with “actionable” information about Jeffrey Epstein’s relationship with a prominent billionaire and an untold number of Wall Street banks—but the DOJ hasn’t doing anything with the info.
“I've handed the Trump administration...
(Clive Maund, Money Metals News Service) The uptrend in silver is gathering pace.
On its latest 6-month chart, we can see that, after breaking sharply higher, it rose by several dollars early in June before settling into a consolidation pattern – a bull Flag – that has served to ease...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) After a one-off surge in April, consumer borrowing tanked again in May, a sign that Americans might be close to tapping out as they hit their credit card limits.
Locked at home and flush with stimulus money, Americans paid down their credit card debt...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Since hitting an all-time high of $3,500 in April, gold has consolidated and generally traded sideways in a range between $3,200 and $3,400 an ounce. Does this mean the bull run is over?
A recent report by Metals Focus argues that while there are still...
(Money Metals News Service) Mike Maharrey opens this week’s Money Metals Midweek Memo with a warning ripped from Jurassic Park: just because you can doesn’t mean you should.
He applies this to the Federal Reserve, accusing it of blindly tinkering with the economy's most fundamental signal—interest rates.
The parallel is sharp. Dr. Ian Malcolm warned of scientific...
(Headline USA) X CEO Linda Yaccarino said she’s stepping down after two years running Elon Musk’s social media platform.
Yaccarino posted a positive message Wednesday about her tenure at the company formerly known as Twitter and said “the best is yet to come as X enters a new chapter with” Musk’s...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The US is poised to spend over $1 billion on building new air bases and various other types of military facilities, Haaretz reported on Tuesday, citing documents and presentations from the US Army Corps of Engineers.
The construction projects include building a facility to accommodate Israel’s new KC-46...