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(Money Metals News Service) In a recent interview on the Pinnacle Digest Podcast, host Aaron Hoddinott sat down with Money Metals President and CEO Stefan Gleason to discuss central bank gold buying, Federal Reserve policy, the future of the U.S. dollar, and the growing debate surrounding America's gold reserves. Gleason argued that the...

(Headline USA) The top U.S. auto regulator opened an investigation Monday after a Tesla using an automated driving feature slammed into a Texas home at high speed and killed a 76-year-old woman standing inside. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said it's opening a special investigation into the Tesla Model 3...

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) After running a surplus in April thanks to an influx of income tax revenue, the U.S. government returned to the status quo and ran a big deficit in May. The Trump administration spent $292.65 billion more than it took in as revenues dipped due...

(Stefan Gleason, Money Metals News Service) Chairman Alan Greenspan has now passed from the scene at the age of 100. Greenspan parlayed his sound-money bona fides into the top post at America's central bank and the stewardship of the world's dominant fiat currency. In betrayal of his own stated free-market principles, Greenspan...

(Sarah Roderick-Fitch, The Center Square)  Following what appeared to be a bumpy weekend between the United States and Iran, Vice President J.D. Vance said progress is being made. Vance, leading a U.S. delegation in talks with Iran, mediated by Pakistan and Qatar, reassured that talks remain ongoing in Switzerland after...

(Benjamin Yount, The Center Square) Milwaukee’s mayor is again questioning and criticizing the federal investigation into Wisconsin’s 2020 election. Mayor Cavalier Johnson was on UpFront over the weekend and framed the FBI’s questioning of Milwaukee County election officials and Milwaukee police officers as an attempt to undo the 2020 presidential...

(Headline USA) Alan Greenspan, the jazz-playing U.S. Federal Reserve chair who was celebrated for engineering a decade of prosperity but later shared the blame for a devastating financial crisis, died Monday. He was 100. Greenspan died from complications of Parkinson’s disease, said his wife of 29 years, NBC News correspondent...

(José Niño, Headline USA) An Arizona State University professor found himself penalized in his yearly performance evaluation over allegations of "bias" and "slant" toward Christianity stemming from his instruction on theologian Thomas Aquinas and classroom inquiries about the "highest good," The College Fix reported. Owen Anderson, who has been an...

(José Niño, Headline USA) President Donald Trump challenged Illinois Democratic Governor JB Pritzker to seek federal assistance after a bloody weekend left multiple dead and dozens injured across Chicago, Just the News reported. "Why isn't Governor Pritzker calling me for help," Trump wrote Sunday morning on Truth Social. "I could...

(Headline USA) “Toy Story” still has a friend in moviegoers. The fifth installment in the Pixar series debuted with $160 million in domestic ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday, easily setting a new franchise record and notching the biggest opening weekend of the year. Launching 31 years after the original “Toy...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The Pentagon has told Congress that it needs $80 billion to pay for the Iran war and other non-war-related costs, The Wall Street Journal has reported. The Pentagon had previously claimed that the war cost $29 billion as of mid-May, a number that doesn’t hold up to scrutiny,...

(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) Multibillionaire Jeff Bezos griped to President Donald Trump about having made a bad investment in his 2013 purchase of the Washington Post, saying “The people there are terrible,” according to a new book by two reporters from the rival New York Times. https://twitter.com/JonathanTurley/status/2067704286742528337 Jonathan Swan and Maggie...