(Money Metals News Service) In the latest episode of the Money Metals Midweek Memo, host Mike Maharrey provides a comprehensive overview of Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell's recent testimony and delves into the investment potential of platinum.
Jerome Powell's Testimony: Market Movements and Rate Cuts
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell's testimony...
(Peter St. Onge, PhD. Money Metals News Service) "Will Debt Sink the American Empire? So asks the Wall Street Journal, in an uncharacteristically gloomy article for the bull market's paper of record.
They kick off with the problem: America is "cruising" into an uncharted sea of federal debt, with a...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) If you believe the headlines, the employment situation in the U.S. is still solid. Maybe you shouldn't believe the headlines. They tend to bury the lead.
We got the June jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) on Friday. The economy added...
(Headline USA) The Federal Reserve faces a cooling job market as well as persistently high prices, Chair Jerome Powell said in testimony Tuesday to Congress, a shift in emphasis away from the Fed's single-minded fight against inflation of the past two years that suggests it is moving closer to...
(Headline USA) The new Sentinel nuclear weapons program is 81% over budget and is now estimated to cost nearly $141 billion, but the Pentagon is moving forward with the program, saying that given the threats from China and Russia it does not have a choice.
The Northrop Grumman Sentinel program...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) After paying down credit card debt in April, American consumers went back to running up the plastic in May. But borrowing for big-ticket items remained sluggish, indicating consumers are still struggling to make ends meet in this inflationary environment.
Total consumer debt increased by...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Is now a good time to get bullish on platinum? I’ve written a lot about the fact that silver appears to be underpriced given both technical factors and the supply and demand dynamics.
Platinum may be even more undervalued.
The current platinum price is hovering...
(Money Metals News Service) In a recent Money Metals podcast, host Mike Maharrey sat down with Connor Boyack, the president of the Libertas Institute and the prolific author behind the Tuttle Twins series.
This conversation aired during the Fourth of July weekend (Independence Day, July 4, 2024), a fitting backdrop...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) How do you safely and securely move billions of dollars worth of gold? Very quietly.
De Nederlandsche Bank (the Dutch central bank) did just that, moving over 220 tons of gold coins and bars over 45 miles of public highway.
Officials spent four weeks shuttling...
(Peter St. Onge, Money Metals News Service) Have we already entered a recession? Worse, have we been in a recession for years now?
Recently I joined Jeff Tucker of the Brownstone Institute on an article about the Herculean task of trying to figure out what's actually happening in the economy.
Which is a challenge given every official...
(Clint Siegner, Money Metals News Service) If you ask average investors what the best-performing asset class is year-to-date, the vast majority of them would get it wrong. The correct answer isn’t stocks, but rather precious metals (led by silver).
Most investors would have no idea that silver is up 32%...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Two months ago, the gold-silver ratio broke an important support level, indicating the white metal could be in the early stages of closing its gap with gold.
The gold-silver ratio indicates how many ounces of silver it takes to buy one ounce of gold...