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Bullish for Gold: Spiking Inflation Could Send Real Yields Lower No Matter What the Fed Does
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Nominal interest rates are rising, putting significant price pressure on gold and silver. However, with price inflation heating up, it’s possible the real rates could fall, a bullish setup for precious metals. The rapid rise in oil prices juiced CPI to the highest level since May 2023. This increasing inflation…
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New Fed Chair Wants to Move the Inflation Goal Posts
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) What do you do if you have a standard that’s not being met? Move the goalposts! Of course, you could work harder to meet the goal. But that’s hard. So, why not just change the standard and make it easier to meet? That seems to be a strategy at…
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Karmelo Anthony Convicted of Murder for Stabbing White Teen
(Headline USA) A Texas teenager who fatally stabbed a 17-year-old track athlete from a rival team during a meet was convicted of murder Tuesday in a trial that drew national attention far beyond the booming Dallas suburb where the two students attended different high schools. A jury rejected Karmelo Anthony’s claims of self-defense during a confrontation…
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Vance refers Minnesota fraud allegations to DOJ for investigation
(The Center Square) Vice President JD Vance said the Department of Justice’s Fraud Division will investigate allegations that Minnesota officials failed to stop widespread taxpayer-funded fraud. Vance said in a statement that it will be “criminal” investigations. “Minnesota state officials are not above the law, and if they facilitated fraud, lied under oath about what they…
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Charlotte Train Stabber Tells Judge He Has a ‘Body Emergency’
(Headline USA) A man charged in the fatal stabbing of a Ukrainian refugee on a North Carolina commuter train cannot currently stand trial because of his mental illness and will undergo medical treatment to try to restore his competency, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. Decarlos Brown Jr., 35, faces a federal charge of causing death on…
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Appeals Court Overturns Whitmer Kidnap Plot Conviction
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) One of the men convicted in the purported 2020 militia plot to kidnap Michigan’s governor had his conviction overturned Tuesday after the state’s appeals court ruled that he didn’t receive a fair trial. Joseph Morrison, who was serving a 10-year sentence after being convicted in 2022 of providing material support for…
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Downed Helicopter Pilots Rescued by Drone; US Bombs Iran Afterward
(Headline USA) The U.S. military launched airstrikes Wednesday on Iran following the crash of an Army helicopter near the Strait of Hormuz that U.S. President Donald Trump blamed on the Islamic Republic. Tehran vowed to respond, again throwing into question efforts to reach a permanent ceasefire in the Iran war that’s seen the Strait of Hormuz…
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Social Security Fund to Run Dry in 2032, Automatic Cuts Loom
(The Center Square) Social Security’s retirement trust fund will be depleted in 2032, triggering an automatic 22% reduction in benefits for about 70 million Americans unless Congress acts, federal trustees warned Tuesday. Social Security paid $1.6 trillion in benefits to 70 million Americans in 2025. The program provides a majority of income for 43% of…
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Two Senate #MeToo Champions Under Fire for Supporting Platner
(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) With Maine voters heading to the polls on Tuesday to decide whether Democrat frontrunner Graham Platner will make the cut for November’s senatorial election, the party has faced an uncomfortable reckoning over its moral compass — or lack thereof. Platner — a self-described communist from an elite, privileged upbringing — remains…
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Va.’s Gun Ban Backfires on Spanberger as Sales Surge
(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) As overreaching Democrats inflict a tyrannical reign of terror on the right-leaning, rural citizens of Virginia, gun owners hope to stave off a proposed ban by Gov. Abigail Spanberger the only way they know how: with more guns. Spanberger, a former CIA operative, announced her extreme crackdown on Second Amendment rights…
