(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) With prices above $60 an ounce, many speculate that industrial demand for silver will fall due to substitution. However, the Silver Institute projects industrial demand will rise as offtake from vital technology sectors accelerates over the next five years.
“Silver will remain an essential component...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Price inflation has slowed, but that doesn’t mean prices are coming down. They just aren’t rising quite as fast as they were.
Price inflation is by design. Remember, the powers-that-be target a 2-percent reduction in the value of your dollar.
Conventional wisdom holds that falling...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Trinidad and Tobago will allow the US military to use its airports in the coming weeks, according to a statement from the Caribbean island nation’s Foreign Ministry, as the US continues ramping up military activity near Venezuela.
Trinidad and Tobago’s Foreign Ministry cited recent military cooperation with...
(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) President Donald Trump's tariffs are expected to cost U.S. consumers an extra $1,400 in 2026, according to an analysis from the Tax Foundation.
Trump made tariffs the centerpiece of his domestic and foreign agenda at the start of his second term in the White House....
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Regulators in India have revised rules to allow pension funds to invest in gold and silver ETFs. This could further boost already booming investment demand in India.
India ranks as the world’s second-largest gold market and consistently falls in the top four silver-consuming nations.
For...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Gold and silver have hogged the spotlight; however, the platinum group metals (PGMs) have had a breakout year as well.
Platinum has surged by 92 percent in 2025, and palladium has gained 65 percent. Meanwhile, the price of rhodium (A rarer PGM used in...
(Money Metals News Service) In a recent interview on the Money Metals podcast, host Mike Maharrey welcomed Edward Sterck, Director of Research at the World Platinum Investment Council, to help gold and silver investors understand why platinum and palladium are suddenly demanding attention.
Maharrey framed the conversation as a deliberate shift...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) After being ousted by his own party, former President Joe Biden ended 2024 with a humiliating feat: not a single dollar raised for the construction of his presidential library, raising serious doubts about the project's viability.
The fragile financial situation was revealed in IRS filings from the Joe...
(José Niño, Headline USA) The benchmark for wealth in America has undergone a dramatic transformation. According to a report by Fortune, Americans now place the threshold for being considered wealthy at an average of $2.3 million—a 21 percent surge since 2021 that underscores how inflation and escalating expenses have...
(Jan Nieuwenhuijs, Money Metals News Service) Without a doubt, the Chinese central bank (PBoC) is still the leading single entity that is driving up the gold price to record highs, year-to-date by more than 55 percent.
In the third quarter of 2025, the PBoC’s gold purchases (reported and unreported) accounted...
(Dave Mason, The Center Square) Democratic attorneys general from California and 18 other states sued the Trump administration Friday over its new $100,000 fee on H-1B visas.
President Donald Trump imposed the rule Sept. 19 for new petitions for the nonimmigrant visas, which allow U.S. employers to hire temporary, foreign...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The US Treasury Department on Thursday announced sanctions targeting six companies it accused of transporting Venezuelan oil, as Reuters reported that the Trump administration is gearing up to seize more oil tankers.
The US seizure of a tanker off the coast of Venezuela that was bound for...