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(José Niño, Headline USA) Independent journalist Ken Klippenstein set off a firestorm this week when he posted a clip of Hillary Clinton on X, captioning it "Hillary Clinton suggests October 7 was an inside job."  The clip features Clinton saying Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "wanted to see what they...

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) With many countries bringing their gold home, what will Spain do? Some are calling for the Spanish central bank to follow the lead of the Netherlands and France and repatriate its gold. The Netherlands recently moved 86 tonnes of gold from North America closer to home...

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Will they? Or won’t they? That’s the question on everybody’s mind. Will the Federal Reserve finally pull the trigger and hike interest rates at next week's September meeting? I’m about 50-50, maybe leaning slightly toward a hike. However, I don’t think it ultimately matters, because...

(Headline USA) Six Nigerian nationals linked to an organized criminal network that allegedly swindled American women out of over $6 million through online romance scams will be extradited to the United States on Friday, South African police said. The men, who were arrested in the South African city of Cape Town...

(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) Eleven months into fiscal year 2026, the U.S. government has added $2 trillion to the national debt, borrowing $168 billion during August alone, the Congressional Budget Office estimates. The federal government has collected $4.8 trillion and spent $6.8 trillion, generating a deficit already higher than...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Donald Trump on Wednesday told reporters to expect more US attacks on Iranian tankers, comments that came after Iran’s forces struck US bases in Jordan and targeted multiple commercial ships in the region in retaliation for US Central Command bombing five Iranian tankers. Trump made the...

(Andrew Rice, The Center Square) President Donald Trump said he would offer every eligible American adult a $5,000 “Trump Dividend” if Republicans maintain control of the U.S. House and Senate in the midterm elections. “It’s $5,000 to every adult,” Trump told a crowd at the first-ever Republican midterm convention in...

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Gold flowed into ETFs from every region last month, pushing global holdings to a record high. ETFs globally added 121 net tonnes of gold to their holdings in August. That pushed total ETF gold reserves to 4,189 tonnes. Putting that into perspective, ETFs globally held...

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. That seems to be the mantra over at the U.S. Treasury Department. On Wednesday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced the department plans to triple its long-term bond buyback program to $6 billion during its operation on...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Disgraced former first son Hunter Biden's entry into the cryptocurrency market quickly crashed after he announced the so-called $LAPTOP meme coin on Tuesday. Biden announced the token, a reference to his controversial laptop, in an X post that garnered nearly 5 million views. But despite the attention,...

(Money Metals News Service) In this week’s Money Metals Midweek Memo, host Mike Maharrey examined what he calls the debasement trade. It is the growing preference for tangible assets such as gold and silver as protection against the declining purchasing power of fiat currencies. Maharrey framed the trend as a matter...

(Headline USA) A lone juror blocked Lindsay Clancy from being acquitted, insisting he wouldn’t find her not guilty by reason of insanity despite saying during deliberations that he had reasonable doubt, the jury’s foreperson complained in a TV interview Tuesday. The interview with Boston’s NBC10 aired four days after a...