Money Metals News Service

An Emboldened, Super-Funded IRS to Target Bank Depositors

Insidious plans are afoot in Washington to give IRS officials another $80 billion for auditors and then unleash them on bank account holders. New, heavy-handed IRS and Federal Reserve controls along with other threats to financial privacy highlight the i… Keep Reading

Strong Demand Pushing Bullion Premiums Higher Again

The best time to buy gold and silver was before the world began its slide into insanity. The second best time to buy metals may be now. Many long-time bullion investors have held off, expecting prices would fall. Premiums did come down significantly ove… Keep Reading

Transitory Inflation and Useless Ingredients

This naturally leads people to think that whatever goods a dollar can purchase are intrinsic to the dollar itself. Indeed, if the quantity of dollars is the only cause of prices to rise, then the logical corollary is that the goods—and the people who pr… Keep Reading

Gold and Silver: Your Financial Main Battle Tanks

Armored vehicle-enabled soldiers and the designers who build them understand that a main battle tank must balance three critical elements in order to "complete the mission." This has been true conceptually since the time of David and Goliath, the Three H… Keep Reading

The Inflation Tax Is Bearing Down on Investors Too

The post-COVID inflation surge that was supposed to be “transitory” is looking a lot more permanent. On Friday, the Bureau of Economic Analysis Friday released data on Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE), the Federal Reserve’s preferred inflati… Keep Reading

The Fed’s ‘Dangerous’ Path Toward Debt Monetization

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 lost on everyone involved. On Tuesday, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell testified … Keep Reading

The Biggest Federal Reserve Scandal

Following revelations that Federal Reserve officials made trades in financial assets while the Fed was taking extraordinary efforts to “stimulate” the economy, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell ordered a review of the Fed’s ethics rules. While … Keep Reading

Another Debt Ceiling Hike Won’t Fix What’s Broken

Washington DC politicians are busy cobbling together yet another bi-partisan bill to raise the federal borrowing limit. Congress imposed the debt ceiling on itself in 1917.… Keep Reading

What Happened in 1971? Edward Snowden and Jack Dorsey Want to Know

The first thing that becomes apparent is that something happened in 1971. This fact is made clear by a series of charts, all based on government data, that show various odd economic trends began in that year.… Keep Reading

Fed Changed Nothing but Gold Got Smashed Anyway -- Any Questions?

The U.S. dollar index, our friend Dave Kranzler of Investment Research Dynamics writes gold, "is back to where it was right before Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell's press conference yesterday. When Powell said 'maybe in November we'll have a taper … Keep Reading