(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) On March 17, the U.S. national debt slipped above $39 trillion.
If you're thinking, 'Wow, it seems like we just crossed the $38 trillion threshold,' you are correct. It was a mere 150 days ago on October 21.
As of March 17, the national debt...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) If you know inflation is going to increase, would you sell your inflation hedge?
Me neither. That would be dumb, right?
However, that’s what a lot of people did yesterday (Wednesday, March 18), and they're still doing it this morning. This hints at the Catch-22...
(José Niño, Headline USA) Sen. Ron Wyden, D-OR, accused Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche of personally intervening to block the Drug Enforcement Administration from releasing documents related to a secret drug trafficking investigation into Jeffrey Epstein.
Wyden, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, announced on social media that...
(Money Metals News Service) The latest episode of the Money Metals Midweek Memo, hosted by Mike Maharrey, explores a growing shift in global markets. Traditional safe havens are no longer behaving as expected. In their place, gold is emerging as the primary refuge during economic and geopolitical instability.
The discussion...
(Morgan Sweeney, The Center Square) Vice President JD Vance remains the favored candidate among Republicans and right-leaning independents for the next presidential primary, though Secretary of State Marco Rubio moved up in a new The Center Square Voters’ Voice Poll.
The poll surveyed 952 Republicans and 225 independents who lean...
(Headline USA) U.S. companies will be allowed to do business with Venezuela's state-owned oil and gas company after the Treasury Department eased sanctions, with some limitations, on Wednesday as the Trump administration looks for ways to boost world oil supplies during the Iran war.
The Treasury issued a broad authorization...
(Headline USA) From a surprising heatwave in California to blizzards burying parts of the Midwest and storms rolling into the East Coast, chaotic weather on Monday put more than half the nation’s population in the path of extreme cfonditions.
Airport delays and cancellations piled up in some of the nation’s...
(Kyle Anzalone, Libertarian Institute) President Donald Trump told reporters that he believes he will take Cuba. Washington has cut the island off from fuel imports, causing a blackout.
“I do believe I’ll be…having the honor of taking Cuba. That’s a big honor,” Trump said on Monday. “Whether I free it,...
(Jason Ditz, Antiwar.com) The US-Israeli war against Iran is already expanding into Lebanon with an Israeli ground invasion of southern Lebanon, but Reuters is now reporting that the Trump Administration is keen to drag Syria into the conflict as well, encouraging its Islamist government to invade Lebanon and fight...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Donald Trump on Tuesday criticized the US’s NATO allies, saying they were “making a very foolish mistake” for not entering the US-Israeli war against Iran, as his calls for other countries to send warships to open the Strait of Hormuz have been rejected.
“NATO is making...
(José Niño, Headline USA) The United States expressed its anger when Great Britain revealed two years ago that China hacked its voter registration databases. But American intelligence concealed its own secret at the time, having known since 2020 that Beijing also obtained access to American voter registration data, according...