(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Could the commercial real estate market be the next thing to pop in this bubble economy? According to a recent working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, the answer is yes.
And that could kick off the next major financial crisis.
Based...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) How much would it cost to buy a pound of gold? It actually depends on what you mean by "pound." Yes. There is more than one kind of pound.
We typically talk about the price of gold in terms of ounces. As I write...
(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) It was recently reported that right now there are well over half a million Americans who are homeless due to surging rent prices.
The report that was released on Jan. 25, 2024, by Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies revealed that about 653,000 people reported being...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Donald Trump recently made it a part of his presidential platform to prevent financial institutions from arbitrarily closing the customers’ accounts over their political views—a process known as “de-banking.”
De-banking became a national issue when numerous critics of COVID-19 restrictions lost their accounts. Others, such as...
(Clint Siegner, Money Metals News Service) Texas Gov. Greg Abbott gave up on the Biden administration doing much to secure his state’s border with Mexico.
An estimated 6 million people, including large numbers of fighting age men, have been pouring illegally into border states over the past 3 years. Abbott...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) It appears more and more likely that the Federal Reserve is poised to completely abandon any pretense of fighting inflation, despite the fact CPI remains well above the 2% target.
The Fed has already paused interest rate hikes, and most analysts expect rate cuts...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) In a Saturday speech in South Carolina, President Joe Biden referred to his predecessor, Donald Trump, as the "sitting president."
This verbal misstep prompted the White House to swiftly correct the official transcript of the president’s speech. The revised version falsely portrayed Biden's statement as referring to...
(Deroy Murdock, Headline USA) Are you better off than you were four years ago? Every voter should ask this while choosing America’s next president.
This oft-stated question is fairer to pose three years into Joe Biden’s presidency. Evaluating America now versus January 2020, on President Donald J. Trump’s watch, allows...
(Headline USA) More than 4,700 automobile dealerships across the United States urged President Joe Biden in a letter Thursday to halt the Environmental Protection Agency's efforts to enforce stricter vehicle-pollution standards.
The missive comes just weeks before the agency’s expected ruling on its tailpipe-emissions proposal, which addresses both climate change...
(Mike Gleason, Money Metals News Service) As superficially upbeat economic data propels the stock market to new highs, precious metals investors are questioning the story being told by Wall Street cheerleaders and government bureaucrats.
On Thursday, the Bureau of Economic Analysis announced its Gross Domestic Product estimate for the fourth...
(Jon Forrest Little, Money Metals News Service) The rapidly growing middle class in India has led to massive new energy demand, and the populous nation is increasingly turning to solar.
A boom in solar projects worldwide is gobbling up substantially more silver ounces every year, adding to the annual silver...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Silver is underpriced. In other words, silver is on sale. The current gold-to-silver ratio reveals this. This ratio tells you how many ounces of silver it takes to buy one ounce of gold. Or to put it another way, the gold:silver ratio tells...