FINANCE

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) With bond yields on the rise and markets penciling in another Federal Reserve interest rate hike this year, a lot of people are selling their gold. Axel Merk doesn’t think you should. Merk is the founder of Merk Investments, and he has a reputation as...

(Money Metals News Service) A bank run is a familiar danger in a fractional-reserve banking system. In December 1930, as the Great Depression deepened, the privately owned Bank of United States in New York collapsed after a run by depositors. Despite its name, it was not a government institution....

(Headline USA) Maine Democrats on Wednesday assailed U.S. Sen. Susan Collins over a news report that the FBI investigated how much she knew about illegal campaign contributions that sent one of her donors to prison. The ProPublica report, published Tuesday, states that the FBI in 2024 planned to launch an...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into Darren Indyke and Richard Kahn, two long-time associates of Jeffrey Epstein now in charge of handling the deceased billionaire sex criminal’s estate, according to the Wall Street Journal. The Journal reported Wednesday that federal prosecutors in Manhattan...

(Headline USA) President Donald Trump's AI-fueled vision for a drone port he intends to install atop the new White House ballroom includes missile-bearing unmanned aerial vehicles and gun-toting troops, ostensibly to protect the 18-acre complex and the nation’s capital. A few hundred feet away, a drone port, run by the U.S....

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on Monday issued another warning to the US, saying that if the United States bombs Iran again, Iranian forces would expand the “geography of the war.” “If another aggression takes place, there will certainly be significant changes in our defense and...

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Gold is on the path toward $10,000 an ounce. It’s not a matter of if, but when. That’s the view of State Street Investment Management head of gold strategy Aakash Doshi. In an interview with Kitco News, he said investors should be thinking beyond...

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) The U.S. government continues to ratchet up its use of the dollar as a foreign policy tool, even as the weaponization of the dollar has accelerated de-dollarization. On Monday, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced plans to effectively ground Iran’s commercial airlines, saying that...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) A new poll from The Economist/YouGov found that a majority of registered US voters support impeaching US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, after Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) of Kentucky introduced a resolution to remove him. The poll, conducted from September 18 to September 21, found that 51%...

(Headline USA)  President Donald Trump returned to the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday at a tumultuous moment for the world — and for his presidency — and made the case that he's shown fortitude while other leaders have equivocated as he defended his decision to start a war with...

(Headline USA) Vice President JD Vance and other Trump administration officials said Tuesday they plan to remove 760,000 Affordable Care Act enrollees from public healthcare exchanges, alleging that the individuals were fraudulently enrolled in the program, or simply do not exist. Vance said the discovery and canceled subsidy payments for...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Never-before-published photos offer a glimpse into how the FBI handled its searches for classified materials at Joe Biden’s Delaware home and the "Biden Center” in Washington, D.C., prompting critics to compare the orderly appearance of the searches with the chaotic raid of President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago...