(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Owning silver and gold is a good way to hedge against counterparty risk.
What exactly is counterparty risk?
In simple terms, it is the possibility that the party on the other side of a transaction might not fulfill its obligation.
For instance, if I loan you...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Concerned about a weaponized financial system, many countries have signaled plans to remove their gold and other assets from the U.S. in the wake of the unprecedented Western sanctions imposed on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.
And at least one congressman is demanding answers from...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Gold and silver are often disparaged as "useless" or "barbarous relics" by investors and economists. But as Mike Maharrey explains in this episode of the Money Metals' Midweek Memo, gold and silver are real money.
In this show, Mike argues that a return to...
(Casey Harper, The Center Square) The Republican-led House Oversight Committee is launching an investigation into how large investors' woke policies are impacting Americans.
House Oversight Chair Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., sent a letter this week to Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System General Counsel Mark Van Der Weide...
(Headline USA) Congressional leaders emerged from an “intense” Oval Office meeting with President Joe Biden on Tuesday speaking optimistically about the prospects for avoiding a partial government shutdown.
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., meanwhile, faced a barrage of intense pressure from the gaggle of corrupt leftists, along with RINO Senate Minority...
(Headline USA) Ousted CNN host Don Lemon will reportedly receive a $24.5 million payout from the network as part of a settlement reached nearly a year after his firing.
The payout equals the amount Lemon would have been paid had he stayed on with CNN through the end of his contract,...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Three House Republicans have introduced a bill that would restrict corporations and government agencies from tracking gun purchases made by law-abiding Americans.
The Protecting Privacy in Purchases Act—introduced last week by Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., alongside Reps. Richard Hudson, R-N.C., and Andy Barr, R-Ariz.—would ban the...
(Christian Wade, The Center Square) Former President Donald Trump has appealed his $454 million New York civil fraud judgment, challenging a judge’s ruling that the GOP presidential front-runner lied about the value of his real-estate empire.
Trump's lawyers filed a notice of appeal on Monday asking a state appeals court to...
(Headline USA) When it comes to safety culture at Boeing, there is “a disconnect” between senior management and workers.
However, employees responsible for checking the company's planes question whether they can raise issues without fear of retaliation, according to panel of outside experts.
The aviation-industry and government experts also said safety...
(Lauren Jessop, The Center Square) Affordability and charging access remain the biggest obstacles to consumer acceptance of electric vehicles and the government’s ambitious transition targets.
These factors pose even greater challenges for a demographic that has been seemingly overlooked by policymakers---those residing in multiunit dwellings.
“The transition to EVs in the...
(Headline USA) Inflation has changed the way many Americans shop. Now, some hope, those changes in consumer habits are helping bring down inflation.
However, some prices will remain obstinately high---if not permanently so---as Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has acknowledged, due to the Biden administration's slow reaction in addressing the issue,...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Net central bank gold buying exceeded 1,000 tons two straight years, and commodity analysts at ANZ Bank expect central bank gold demand to continue hot for at least the next six years.
central banks could purchase over 600 tons of gold annually until...