(Clint Siegner, Money Metals News Service) Anyone with a naked short in the silver futures market risks getting squeezed by physical buying.
Demand for delivery of COMEX silver bars is rising, even as the paper price of the metal fell more than 4.5% last week.
Silver shorts sold contracts representing a whole...
(Deroy Murdock, Headline USA) President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and other Leftists reassure Americans that hiking the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $15 per hour will rescue laborers from destitution.
Biden said last month: “Fifteen dollars gets people above the poverty line.”
Alas, as Monty Python once put it, there’s just...
(Jon Miltimore, Foundation for Economic Education) With thousands of schools still closed or partially closed across the country, millions of American families are struggling to find work-life balance while educating their children at home.
One part of American society may be receiving their own special COVID-19 relief package, however.
In Forbes, Adam...
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell said leftist boycotts of his company have cost him nearly $65 million already, which he said is proof that he isn’t trying to scam Americans by raising concerns about voter fraud.
“I lost 20 retailers, and it’s cost me $65 million this year that I won’t...
Apple CEO Tim Cook refused to answer a question during the company's annual shareholder meeting about its politically motivated choice to remove Parler from from the App Store.
The controversial decision ensures that Apple's anti-free speech policy when it comes to conservative viewpoints will remain in effect, said Justin Danhof,...
The Cherokee Nation suggested this week that it is racist for Jeep to keep using the name “Cherokee” for some of its best-selling SUVs.
Jeep has used the term “Cherokee” for decades.
The Jeep Grand Cherokee is the company’s best-selling model, and the Jeep Cherokee is the third bestseller.
The original Jeep...
(Jon Miltimore, Foundation for Economic Education) The internet is not known as a purveyor of truth. (In case you didn’t know.)
The false information can take many forms. Maybe it’s the fake Robin Williams quote your aunt shared on Facebook. Or perhaps it’s the nutty Qanon conspiracies you see in your...
(Brad Polumbo, Foundation for Economic Education) With COVID-19 ravaging the country and government pandemic lockdowns devastating our economy, the national debt has understandably slipped to the back of many Americans’ minds.
But the federal government continues to fall deeper into the red at a dramatically accelerating rate. Free-market economists interviewed by...
(Clint Siegner, Money Metals News Service) Investors are buying silver in vast quantities – in whatever form they can get it.
Smaller silver bugs are buying it a few ounces at a time from scarce retail inventories. Whales are accumulating millions of ounces via the silver ETFs or by standing for...
(Freedom Foundation) The U.S. Supreme Court is being asked to consider a case that would finally enforce one of its own recent decisions and empower millions of public employees trapped by organizations and government officials openly thumbing their noses at the highest court in the land.
On Thursday, the Freedom Foundation...
(Vince Bielski, RealClearInvestigations) Last Labor Day, candidate Joe Biden made an impassioned pitch to leaders and members of the AFL-CIO, America’s largest labor federation.
Stressing that “the great American middle class was built by unions,” he jabbed his finger in the air for emphasis as he promised, “I’m going to be...
In the current market environment, little else matters other than momentum.
What’s moving up gets chased higher still by investors.
And what can be moved up by any means is pursued by speculators who hope to jump-start a momentum trade.
It’s all being fueled by cheap money and government “stimulus.”
The consequences?
The U.S....