(Money Metals News Service) In this week’s Money Metals Midweek Memo, host Mike Maharrey opens with blunt news: the federal government shut down at midnight. Lights off. Doors locked. Theater on.
He argues you wouldn’t notice a real shutdown if Washington stayed within its constitutional lane. The $37 trillion debt is the...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) FBI Director Kashyap Patel has repeatedly insisted that there’s no evidence of deceased sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein sexually blackmailing anyone—but a top Trump official who was neighbors with Epstein says otherwise.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, who was neighbors with Epstein in Manhattan for years, told New...
The US Department of War has confirmed that US troops will remain in Iraq indefinitely under a deal signed with the Iraqi government last year that called for an end to the US-led anti-ISIS mission in the country...
Senior Trump administration officials have intensified their push to remove Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro from power and are discussing steps to escalate the military pressure…
Boeing is set to receive a contract worth up to $123 million to replace the massive 30,000-pound bunker-busting bombs that the US dropped on Iranian nuclear facilities in June as part of the 12-day US-Israeli war against Iran...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Most people define inflation as rising consumer prices. Price inflation is part of the inflationary equation, but inflation also manifests in other ways, for instance, in asset inflation.
Keep in mind that inflation, properly defined, isn’t about prices. It is an increase in the supply of...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Singapore and Hong Kong are seeking to usurp London as the center of the global gold trade, another indication of the yellow metal’s shift from West to East.
Western markets – London, New York, and Switzerland – have dominated the gold trade for nearly two...
(Clint Siegner, Money Metals News Service) Rumors of a federal government shutdown are once again swirling. Absent a deal, non-essential agencies will have to suspend operations until legislators put together a spending deal.
Americans have another front row seat to the public relations battle between Republicans and Democrats to see...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Despite record-high prices, Indians are holding on to their gold.
Since the beginning of the year, gold has soared by 44 percent in rupee terms. That’s on top of a 21 percent gain last year.
High prices typically lead to increased selling and a surge...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Some people have no appreciation for history. But pretty much everybody has an appreciation for gold.
This explains why thieves stole a priceless Egyptian artifact and ultimately had it melted down.
Police arrested an employee of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, along with three accomplices,...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) President Donald Trump turned to mockery on Monday, ridiculing Democratic demands ahead of the government shutdown on Tuesday evening.
He posted an AI-altered video on Truth Social of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries wearing a sombrero and a mustache — a likely jab at Jeffries’s push to exploit the government shutdown to expand Obamacare subsidies, which...