Monday, June 30, 2025

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A Border Patrol Agent Died in 2009. His Widow is Still Fighting for Benefits

(Headline USA) When her husband died after a grueling U.S. Border Patrol training program for new agents, Lisa Afolayan applied for the federal benefits promised to families of first responders whose lives are cut short in the line of duty. Sixteen years later, Afolayan and her two daughters haven't seen a...

Why Investors Can’t Trust the System—and Should Trust Gold

(Money Metals News Service) In a wide-ranging and candid interview on the Money Metals podcast, host Mike Maharrey sat down with Axel Merk—President and CIO of Merk Investments—to explore the deepening divide between government fiscal behavior and investor interests. The conversation centered on growing sovereign debt, entitlement reform avoidance, shifting macroeconomic dynamics,...

Woke Snow White Is Disney’s Biggest Flop in Years

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Disney's controversial live-action remake of Snow White has become its worst-performing wide-release reboot in nearly a decade, marking yet another case of “go woke, go broke.”  The 2025 film reportedly cost $410 million to make and promote, but it barely grossed $200 million worldwide, resulting in an official...

Dollar Hits 3-Year Low—Here’s What It Means for Precious Metals

(Jesse Colombo, Money Metals News Service) The U.S. dollar is undergoing a major technical breakdown—a highly bullish development for commodities, especially precious metals and their mining stocks. For the past couple of months, I’ve been warning of a likely breakdown in the U.S. dollar—an event that historically signals a bullish...

Broken Precious Metal Promises

(Stuart Englert, Money Metals News Service) Whenever the indebted United States nears its legal borrowing limit, the fiscal can kickers in Washington, D.C., and their misinformation-spewing mouthpieces spout an oft-repeated falsehood and make audacious predictions about the nation’s ability to finance its burgeoning debt forever. “The U.S. has never defaulted...

Gold Overtakes Euro as Second-Largest Global Reserve Asset

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Due to a combination of central bank gold buying and the surging price of gold, gold has overtaken the euro as the world’s number two reserve asset. But it’s not so much that gold is replacing the euro. It is supplanting the dollar. Based on data released by the...

Money Wisdom from the Seminole Indians

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Did you know the Seminole Indians refused to conduct trade using paper money? True story. When doing business with white traders, the Seminoles insisted on barter or silver coinage. Why? Because they understood the unreliability of fiat currency and the government that "backs" it. I learned this...

Argentina’s Budding Love Affair With Gold

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Argentines are married to the dollar, but they're having a love affair with gold. As a Bloomberg article framed it, Argentines were once "almost irrationally devoted to the dollar." In fact, the country ranks among the top holders of U.S. dollars. According to Bloomberg, the devotion to the dollar...

May CPI Ratchets Up Pressure on Fed to Return to Inflation

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) The May CPI report is ratcheting up pressure on Jerome Powell and the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates. In other words, the perception that the inflation problem is solved is raising the specter of more inflation. In a social media post on Wednesday, Vice...

Report: Biden Administration Spied on Foreigners Who Visited w/ Elon Musk

(José Niño, Headline USA) Federal agencies under the Biden administration monitored foreign visitors to Elon Musk, according to a Wall Street Journal report.  The Journal's Tuesday report specifically revealed that, throughout 2022 and 2023, multiple U.S. government agencies monitored the movements of foreign nationals traveling to visit Musk at his...

Time to Audit the Gold: Why Congress Is Finally Asking Hard Questions

(Sound Money Defense League, Money Metals News Service) In a compelling interview with Investing News Network host Charlotte McLeod, Jp Cortez, Executive Director of the Sound Money Defense League, detailed a new legislative push to audit the United States’ gold reserves for the first time in decades.  The initiative, known as...

Silver Shines, Debt Soars: What Every Investor Needs to Know

(Money Metals News Service) In the latest Money Metals Midweek Memo, host Mike Maharrey tackles two central themes roiling markets and politics: silver’s long-awaited breakout and the persistent failure of Congress to rein in spending, despite the so-called “Big Beautiful Bill.” Maharrey offers listeners both market insight and fiscal reality checks...
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