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A Cautionary Tale: Britain’s Gold Selling Blunder

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) It looks like Great Britain sold its gold too soon. And are some lessons to be learned from this British experiment with reserve diversification. Between 1999 and 2001, the British government sold about 395 tonnes of gold in a bid to diversify the UK’s...

China Reports Another Round of Gold Buying in December and They’re Buying More Than They Admit

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) China announced an increase in its official gold reserves in November. It was the first reported increase after a 6-month pause, and it appears it wasn't a one-off event. And by the way, the Chinese have a lot more gold than they admit. The People's Bank of...

WaPo’s Traffic Tanks From 22.5M to 3M in 2024

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) The Washington Post continues losing its subscribers after the newspaper editors and owner Jeff Bezos decided not to endorse former Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris. Semafor reported that traffic to the Post's website had tanked over the last four years. According to internal data...

Trump Appears Open to Boosting SALT Cap to Help Blue States

(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) President-elect Donald Trump is open to raising the state and local tax cap, a tax code provision that affects wealthy households in Democrat-run states, but the move could prove costly. U.S. lawmakers are considering changes to the $10,000 SALT deduction cap as part of their...

Kentucky Considers Bill to Entice Gold and Silver Investors to Sue the State for Wrongful Taxation

(Jp Cortez, Money Metals News Service) After a multi-year effort backed by Money Metals, the Sound Money Defense League, and other in-state allies, the Kentucky legislature approved a bill that included ending the sales tax on purchases of precious metals in 2024. However, Gov. Beshear used an unconstitutional line-item veto on the...

Sound Money Would Check Government More Than DOGE Can

(Clint Siegner, Money Metals News Service) Many Americans are rooting for Donald Trump and his appointees to succeed in their herculean task of slowing or reversing government growth. Along with the ad hoc working group dubbed the “Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE),” there is much discussion about how runaway big...

Silver Market Runs Another Big Market Deficit and Other Silver News

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Based on preliminary data, the silver market ran its fourth consecutive record market deficit last year. This was one of several silver-related stories highlighted in the latest issue of the Silver Institute’s Silver News. Record industrial demand and a recovery in the jewelry and silverware markets...

Trump vs. Powell and a Catch-22

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) President Donald Trump hasn’t even been sworn into office yet and he’s already locking horns with Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. During the December Fed meeting, Powell & Company indicated that the pace of interest rate cuts will need to move more slowly than...

Insider Secrets from Precious Metals Expert on Gold, Sound Money, and What’s Coming in 2025

(Money Metals Exchange) In a recent episode of the Money Metals Podcast, host Mike Maharrey interviewed Brien Lundin, a renowned expert in precious metals markets, publisher of Gold Newsletter, and organizer of the prestigious New Orleans Investment Conference. The two discussed the state of gold and silver markets, the influence of geopolitical...

Busted: Kamala Still Charges Donors Amid Campaign Debt Rumors

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Vice President Kamala Harris’s failed presidential campaign was exposed Saturday for charging some donors’ credit cards two months after she lost the 2024 election.  The Harris campaign made the charges to donors who unknowingly agreed to recurring contributions through its joint fundraising committee with the Democratic National Committee...

Tim Pool Goes on Fox, Tells GOP to ‘Take the Power’ as Meta Moves Toward Trump

(Julianna Frieman, Headline USA) Podcaster Tim Pool went on Fox News on Friday to tell Republicans they must “take the power” as Meta shifts its policies toward President-elect Donald Trump. Along with announcing the removal of politically based fact-checkers on Facebook and Instagram, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg claimed his company would...

Biden Expands TPS for Venezuelans Who Entered US with Laken Riley’s Killer

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The Biden administration announced Friday the expansion of deportation protections for 600,000 Venezuelan nationals living in the United States illegally. Notably, this order protects those who entered during the same period as Laken Riley’s murderer.  The Department of Homeland Security expanded Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for individuals from...
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