(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Is the Federal Reserve constitutional?
The Fed was conceived during a secret meeting of bankers and politicians at a private club on Jekyll Island, Georgia. Using a blueprint drawn up during this clandestine meetup, Congress created the Federal Reserve in 1913 via the Federal...
(Peter St. Onge, Money Metals News Service) Confidence in Western financial markets has already been shaken enough by the 20% devaluation of the dollar over the last few years. But now the European Commission wants to hand Ukraine $300 billion seized from Russia. Doing so likely would sound the...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Americans throw away millions of dollars in coins every year. That's because American money is junk.
But that wasn’t always the case.
In an article published by the Wall Street Journal, Reworld, a Pennsylvania waste management facility, claimed that Americans toss about $68 million worth...
(Headline USA) The Supreme Court on Wednesday made it easier for workers who are transferred from one job to another against their will to pursue job discrimination claims under federal civil rights law, even when they are not demoted or docked pay.
Workers only have to show that the transfer...
(Headline USA) Tesla is asking shareholders to restore a pay package---initually valued at $56 billion--- for CEO Elon Musk after it was rejected by a Delaware judge this year.
The changes, to be voted on by stockholders at a June 13 annual meeting, also include a proposal to shift the...
(Headline USA) An engineer at Boeing said Wednesday that the aircraft company, in rushing to produce as many planes as possible, was taking manufacturing shortcuts that could lead to jetliners breaking apart.
“They are putting out defective airplanes,” the engineer, Sam Salehpour, told members of a Senate subcommittee.
Salehpour was testifying...
(Headline USA) During her State of the City address on Monday. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass begged wealthy residents to buy homes for the homeless.
There are more than 40,000 homeless people in Los Angeles, according to the city. But instead of “hiding” them, “what we will do is house...
(Money Metals News Service) In a recent episode of the "Money Medals Midweek Memo," host Mike Maharrey offered an in-depth look at tax day experiences, precious metals markets, and broader economic issues.
Mike began by sharing a personal anecdote about the burden of writing a significant check to the IRS...
(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) U.S. taxpayers lose up to $521 billion a year to fraud across the federal government, according to a first-of-its-kind estimate.
The U.S. Government Accountability Office estimated annual fraud costs taxpayers between $233 billion and $521 billion annually, according to a new report published Tuesday.
The fraud estimate's...
(Stefan Gleason, Money Metals News Service) Miners spend billions of dollars every year pulling precious metals out of the ground. They toil mightily for years on end to produce these stores of value – but then they turn right around and sell all their gold and silver immediately in...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) It was deja vu all over again. The Biden administration ran yet another massive budget deficit in March.
Tax receipts were up last month compared to February, but so was spending. That led to a $236.46 billion budget shortfall, according to the latest Monthly Treasury...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Silver endured a significant selloff last Friday. Was this another step forward in the bull market?
This may seem counterintuitive, but GoldMoney founder James Turk thinks it was a positive sign for silver bulls.
The spot price of silver fell from just over $29.60 per...