(Headline USA) For thousands of local governments, the clock is ticking to spend their share of $350 billion in COVID-19 relief funds approved by Congress and Joe Biden in 2021. Governments must obligate all their American Rescue Plan funds for specific projects by the end of this year or...
(Casey Harper, The Center Square) Years after the passage of federal COVID-era relief and the subsequent loss of likely hundreds of billions of those taxpayer dollars, lawmakers are still unsure where that money went, how to get it back, and seemingly have done little to prevent it from happening...
(Headline USA) New York City became the latest Democratic stronghold to embrace reparations after passing legislation this week to conduct a study on possible reparations measures.
The bill proposes a Truth, Healing, and Reconciliation task force to “acknowledge and address the legacy and impact of slavery and racial injustices in New...
(Headline USA) People began betting Thursday on which political party would win control of Congress in the November elections after a judge's ruling allowing the wagers—the only ones to be legally approved by a U.S. jurisdiction.
New York startup company Kalshi began taking what amounts to bets on the outcome...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Do you know who has been missing from the most recent gold bull run? The Chinese.
And yet, we’re still seeing gold push to record highs.
What happens when the Chinese jump back into the market with both feet?
Another Record
Gold set another new record on...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) In a year of massive deficits, the Biden administration ran the biggest deficit of the year in August.
Meanwhile, interest on the national debt eclipsed $1 trillion for the first time.
The August budget shortfall came in at $380.08 billion, according to the latest Treasury...
(Money Metals News Service) In a recent episode of Where the Dogwood Blooms podcast, host Cassie Clark interviewed Joshua D. Glawson, a writer with expertise in politics, philosophy, economics, and precious metals.
Glawson, the Strategic Communication Adviser for the Libertarian Party of NC and Content Manager for Money Metals Exchange, offered an...
(Money Metals News Service) In the latest episode of the Money Metals Midweek Memo, host Mike Maharrey dives deep into pattern recognition and its crucial role in both ice hockey and investing.
Drawing fascinating parallels between the two, Maharrey highlights how goalies rely on pattern recognition to make split-second decisions, a...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Turkey has formally applied to join the BRICS economic bloc. The move came as something of a shock given that Turkey is a member of NATO and is generally perceived to be oriented toward the West.
Turkey has also been cozying up to the...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) How you read the August Consumer Price Index (CPI) report is a matter of perspective. There is some good news in there for the optimist. There's some bad news in there for the pessimist. And there's a lot of "uh-oh" for the realist.
The...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The Intercept, Scripps News and NBC News have all sued Butler County for refusing to release 911 recordings from the July 13 rally in which former President Donald Trump was nearly assassinated.
Butler County had denied all three outlets’ requests for the 911 calls on the...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) More than 3,000 9/11 family members have reportedly signed a letter to both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, demanding that they hold Saudi Arabia for its role in the deadliest terrorist attack in U.S. history.
“The pledge, with over 3,000 signatories, asks that you commit to...