Friday, September 19, 2025

FINANCE

Why Not Tax Hikes to Fix the Budget?

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Why don’t I push for tax increases to address the massive budget deficits and the ever-growing national debt? The answer is simple – Uncle Sam doesn’t have a revenue problem. He has a spending problem. Did Tax Cuts Pillage the Treasury? A reader posed the question...

China Secretly Snaps Up More Gold, Positions for Its Greater Global Role

(Jan Nieuwenhuijs, Money Metals News Service) While 99% of the media keeps staring at official data by the Chinese central bank (PBoC)—misleadingly stating it added 5 tonnes of gold in November following a supposed six-month pause—the PBoC’s "unreported" purchases in London accounted for a stunning 60 tonnes in September...

2024: The End of the Beginning for Gold

(Brien Lundin, Money Metals News Service) Gold is closing out an extraordinary year, one which marked the start of a new bull market. More importantly, this bull market seems likely to go on much longer and much higher, thanks to a few fundamental forces and irreversible trends. It’s been a helluva...

Top Obama Adviser Makes Surprising Admission About Trump’s Appeal

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) A former economic adviser to President Barack Obama has acknowledged that President-elect Donald Trump’s economic agenda resonated with many Americans during the 2024 election.  Robert Wolf, who served as a senior adviser under Obama and is currently a board member of the Obama Foundation, made this admission...

Biden to Decide on U.S. Steel Acquisition after Influential Panel Fails to Reach Consensus

(Headline USA) A powerful government panel on Monday failed to reach consensus on the possible national security risks of a nearly $15 billion proposed deal for Nippon Steel of Japan to purchase U.S. Steel, leaving the decision to President Joe Biden, who opposes the deal. The Committee on Foreign Investment...

Millions of Companies Must Register w/ Massive U.S. Database by Jan. 1 Due to Last-Minute Court Ruling

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Millions of U.S. companies might be busy over the holidays forking over their data to the Treasury Department, thanks to a last-minute ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. The Fifth Circuit on Monday overturned a lower court’s injunction against a constitutionally...

‘Mayor Pete’ Vanishes Again as American Airlines Grounds Flights in Christmas Eve Fiasco

(Headline USA) American Airlines briefly grounded flights nationwide Tuesday due to a technical issue just as the Christmas travel season kicks into overdrive and winter weather is threatening more potential problems for those planning to fly or drive. Meanwhile, "Mayor Pete" trended on X as Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was, once...

Senator Paul Releases ‘Festivus Report’ for 2024 to Highlight Government Waste

(Matthew Doarnberger, Headline USA) Kentucky Senator Rand Paul has released his annual report on wasteful government spending appropriately titled "The Festivus Report 2024." In this year's report, Paul was able to find over a trillion dollars of waste in the Federal Government's budget. The report details numerous examples of the frivolous things...

Support GATA Financially and Get a 1-Ounce Silver Round Commemorating the Organization’s Work

(Chris Powell, Money Metals News Service) Longstanding Western central bank policy of monetary metals price suppression has never been more vulnerable than it is today. Governments and central banks around the world have been defecting from the policy this year, accumulating gold and silver instead of lending them. And some countries...

Gold, AI, and Geopolitics: Navigating a Turbulent Global Economy

(Money Metals News Service) Frank E. Holmes, CEO and Chief Investment Officer at U.S. Global Investors and Executive Chairman of Hive Blockchain Technologies, recently joined Mike Maharrey on the Money Metals podcast to discuss pressing economic trends, the Federal Reserve's actions, and how technology and geopolitics are reshaping the investment landscape. (Interview Begins...

Debt Ceiling Dance

(Clint Siegner, Money Metals News Service) Gold and silver are among the best-performing asset classes over the past two and a half decades. The unstoppable growth in government borrowing and spending is one of the pillars underpinning demand for metals. Elon Musk and the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)...

A Next-Level Gift: Gold!

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) An anonymous "elf" in New Albany, Indiana, took the Christmas-giving spirit to the next level by dropping a gold nugget into a Salvation Army kettle. Almost every year, I read about somebody gifting the Salvation Army gold. It always makes the news because getting...
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