(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Since today is Halloween, I have a spooky tale for you.
People say you can hear a woman faintly screaming in the old Reed Gold Mine in Midland, N.C.
Of course, there’s a back story. And it's as creepy as you might imagine.
America's First Gold...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Gold demand grew by 3 percent year-on-year in Q3, hitting 1,313 tonnes, the highest quarterly level in history.
Third quarter demand was even more impressive in dollar terms, increasing by 44 percent to a record of $146 billion.
Year-to-date, gold demand is up by 1...
(José Niño, Headline USA) On Sunday, President Nicolás Maduro announced that Venezuela has captured alleged mercenaries with CIA ties, accusing the United States and Trinidad and Tobago of coordinating military exercises designed to provoke armed conflict in the Caribbean.
In a statement from Vice President Delcy Rodríguez, the socialist government...
(José Niño, Headline USA) Eleanor Holmes Norton, Washington D.C.'s 88-year-old congressional delegate, claims to sit on multiple boards at prestigious institutions, but investigations reveal she hasn't been active with them in years. Some of these positions no longer even exist according to a report by Luke Goldstein and Dan...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) South Korea is considering jumping on the gold bandwagon and adding gold to its reserves.
During a speech at an event hosted by the London Bullion Market Association and London Platinum and Palladium Market in Kyoto, Japan, Bank of Korea official Heung-Soon Jung said,...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) The Powell put is on.
The Federal Reserve chairman tried to sound like a hawk, but the central bank’s actions were those of a dove.
For the second straight meeting, the Fed cut the federal funds rate by a quarter percent on Wednesday. In an...
(Money Metals News Service) On a recent episode of Money Metals’ Midweek Memo podcast, host Mike Maharrey opens with a pointed analogy: calling a 3% CPI “good” because it beat a grim forecast is like celebrating “no cancer” while ignoring high cholesterol, hypertension, and pre-diabetes. The patient isn’t healthy;...
(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) The Federal Reserve cut interest rates by a quarter-point on Wednesday for the second time this year, not nearly as much as President Donald Trump wants the central bank to reduce rates.
The move lowers the Fed's benchmark short-term interest rate to a range between...
(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) The Federal Reserve cut interest rates by a quarter-point on Wednesday for the second time this year, not nearly as much as President Donald Trump wants the central bank to reduce rates.
The move lowers the Fed's benchmark short-term interest rate to a range between...
(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) Economists told the U.S. Supreme Court that President Donald Trump's plan to reduce U.S. trade deficits will backfire, exacerbating the underlying issue the president used to justify the sweeping tariffs.
The economists filed a friend-of-the-court brief arguing that Trump's trade policies won't address the trade...
(Headline USA) U.S. lawmakers have tried four times since September last year to close what they called a glaring loophole: China is getting around export bans on the sale of powerful American AI chips by renting them through U.S. cloud services instead.
But the proposals prompted a flurry of activity...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Former President Barack Obama cursed at former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi after she endorsed then-Vice President Kamala Harris’s short presidential bid in 2024.
“What the f**k did you just do?” Obama reportedly asked Pelosi in October 2024,
according to ABC News journalist Jonathan Karl’s new book Retribution.
“The Obamas...