(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) A coalition of 23 attorneys general led by Utah and South Carolina have called on Congress to permanently defund a United Nations agency after learning of its ties to the terrorist organization Hamas.
“The United States must stop funding antisemitic education efforts run by the...
(Kenneth Schrupp, The Center Square) California Gov. Gavin Newsom stuck to his guns after claiming record-high tourism spending from atop the Golden Gate Bridge---despite the fact that the report he cited noted in the adjoining sentence that real spending was down 14% since 2019 after accounting for inflation.
“Last year,...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Factoring in sizeable over-the-counter (OTC) buying, gold demand charted its strongest first quarter since 2016.
Excluding OTC buying, demand fell 5 percent to 1,102 tons. Significant outflows of gold from ETFs drove the dip. But including over-the-counter buying by investors, gold demand grew by...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) The Federal Reserve is losing billions of dollars. As financial journalist and market analyst Jim Grant put it during a recent interview on Fox Business, the Fed is actually broke.
But most people don't seem concerned about the central bank's financial condition. They are...
(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Democrats and the left-leaning mainstream media are apparently just now discovering that big donors such as Bill Gates and George Soros are supporting the pro-Palestine protests on college campuses.
Many of the organizations, such as Jewish Voice for Peace and IfNotNow, are responsible for the recent rash...
(Headline USA) The CEO of a hair-regrowth startup walked back his support for radical anti-Israel student protesters this week after his firm’s stock value plunged nearly $210 million in a single day.
Andrew Dudum, the head of hygiene company Hims & Hers, released a statement on Sunday to “clarify” his...
(Casey Harper, The Center Square) Newly released polling data spelled bad news for President Joe Biden this election year.
Gallup released new polling data which showed independent voters trust former President Donald Trump more than Biden when it comes to the economy.
About 34% of independents said they trusted Biden to...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) There are cracks in the foundation of dollar dominance. Could Chinese gold be the straw that breaks the dollar’s back?
In a column published by the Telegraph, economist Julian Jessop points out that people have been predicting the dollar's demise for decades. Eventually, they'll...
(Clint Siegner, Money Metals News Service) Confidence in institutions such as the Federal Reserve may be falling, but it hasn’t fallen nearly as far or as fast as it should. Trillions of dollars, yen, euros, and yuan are invested according to central bank policy and propaganda. It isn’t going...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) In another stagflation warning sign, the U.S. service sector contracted in April even as service prices rose.
The Institute for Supply Management's non-manufacturing PMI dropped to 49.4 in April, dipping from 51.4 in March. The expectation was for the index to increase to 52.0.
A...
(Headline USA) The legal team representing Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J. argued in a filing revealed this week that the Democrat hoarded hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash and gold bars because of “generational trauma,” The Hill reported.
Menendez is facing several federal charges for bribery and acting as a...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Central banks continued to steadily add gold to their reserves in March. On net, central banks globally increased their gold holdings by 16 tons, according to the latest data compiled by the World Gold Council. Buyers added 40 tons of gold to their...