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(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Earlier this week, I wrote that the gold-silver ratio has recently widened to around 70-1, a bullish signal for silver. But is this metric still relevant today? Many analysts say it isn’t, claiming that the ratio is a relic of a bygone era when gold and...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) An alleged fraudster who gained national attention after jumping from a fourth-floor window to evade FBI agents has pleaded guilty to health care fraud, several news outlets reported Thursday. Muhammad Abdulqadir Omar pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud, according to court filings...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Donald Trump on Thursday said that the nuclear agreement the US and Saudi Arabia signed on Thursday will only move forward if Saudi Arabia normalizes relations with Israel, a statement that came after backlash from Israeli officials over the deal. Trump also said the deal won’t...

(Headline USA) Laura Loomer, an ardent ally of President Donald Trump with a reputation for incendiary social media commentary, sat down with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Thursday after a dramatic turnaround on the war that could have political reverberations back in Washington. Loomer had spent years minimizing Russia's invasion...

(Headline USA) Some bystanders appeared to barely bat an eye when a man set off a fountain of fireworks then started a blazing fire outside a federal building in Lower Manhattan, according to security camera video released Wednesday. The surveillance footage from the U.S. Attorney's Office offered the most complete...

(Headline USA) Health advisers met Thursday to review more than a half-dozen peptides, unproven substances that have become a growing wellness trend. In the first of several votes, the panel of Food and Drug Administration experts narrowly voted 8-6 in favor of broadening access to a chemical called BPC-157, one...

(Headline USA) A key Republican lawmaker says he believes that special counsel Jack Smith may have made false statements to Congress while testifying about his investigation of President Donald Trump and that the Justice Department should consider prosecuting him. Lawyers for Smith deny the allegation and say he testified...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The House on Wednesday passed its version of the massive $1.15 trillion 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which includes Section 219 (formerly Section 224), a provision to further integrate the US and Israeli militaries, a scheme Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has described as “my...

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Many central banks are stacking gold. However, there is a notable seller – Russia. This underscores the fact that governments hold gold for a reason. According to the latest data compiled by the World Gold Council, Russia has sold around 44 tonnes of gold since the...

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Several large Chinese banks have announced plans to halt retail paper gold trading. Could this be a coordinated push by China to exert more influence and break the Western grip on gold pricing? Last month, the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) announced...

(Money Metals News Service) In this episode of the Money Metals Midweek Memo, host Mike Maharrey argues that investors should look beyond daily headlines and recognize the long-term patterns reshaping financial markets. Drawing parallels between hockey goalies who rely on pattern recognition rather than reflexes, Maharrey contends that history...

(Headline USA) ESPN is undergoing a significant round of layoffs for the first time in three years after taking over NFL Network in April. Chairman Jimmy Pitaro said in a memo to employees Tuesday morning, obtained by The Associated Press, that most moves are the result of ESPN’s acquisition of...