Following Senate Republicans' weak-kneed capitulation over the debt ceiling on Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-NY, decided to take a victory lap.
Even by...
(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) The Senate voted on Thursday night to continue spending vast amounts of taxpayers’ money, extending the government’s borrowing authority into...
(Associated Press) Congress took a big step toward avoiding a partial federal shutdown on Thursday when the Senate passed a bill to keep the government...
A prominent U.S. Senator just called the head of the nation’s central bank “dangerous.”
Unfortunately, the true dangers of U.S. monetary and fiscal policy were...
Democrats in Congress have suggested that America's most unpopular institution should delegate one of its last remaining authorities---the raising of the debt ceiling---to the...
(Associated Press) Republican senators blocked a bill to keep the government operating and allow federal borrowing, but Democrats aiming to avert a shutdown pledged to...
(Brad Polumbo, Foundation for Economic Education) President Joe Biden and his progressive allies in Washington, DC are currently trying to pass one of the largest...
(Clint Siegner, Money Metals News Service) Washington DC politicians are busy cobbling together yet another bi-partisan bill to raise the federal borrowing limit.
Congress imposed the...
(Mike Gleason, Money Metals News Service) Debt troubles in China and Washington, D.C. helped boost safe-haven demand for precious metals early this week.
By Thursday, however,...
Credit risk out of China and debt ceiling drama in Washington are driving precious metals markets this week.
Gold and silver attracted some significant safe-haven...
(Associated Press) The House voted to keep the government funded, suspend the federal debt limit and provide disaster and refugee aid, setting up a high-stakes...
(Associated Press) Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has warned Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen he is not budging on his demand that Democrats go it alone...
