Month: June 2025

Argentina’s Budding Love Affair With Gold

rgentines are married to the dollar, but they’re having a love affair with gold. As a Bloomberg article framed it, Argentines were once “almost irrationally devoted to the dollar.” In fact, the country ranks...

Argentina’s Budding Love Affair With Gold

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Argentines are married to the dollar, but they’re having a love affair with gold. As a Bloomberg article framed it, Argentines were once “almost irrationally devoted to...

Circle’s USDC Stablecoin Debuts on Ripple’s XRPL –

Circle’s USDC stablecoin (USDC) launched on the XRP Ledger (XRPL) on Thursday, bringing the overcollateralized dollar-pegged token to users of the layer-1 blockchain network. According to an announcement from Ripple,...

SOL Rally To $200 Possible As ETF Approval Odds Rise –

Key takeaways: SOL’s futures open interest surged to a 2-year high, reflecting growing institutional interest. Rising competition from other blockchains and neutral funding rates continue to dampen SOL’s bullish momentum....

Guggenheim Tokenizes Commercial Paper on XRP Ledger –

US investment manager Guggenheim is expanding its digital commercial paper offering through a partnership with Ripple, underscoring the growing convergence between traditional finance and crypto-native enterprises. Under the partnership, Guggenheim’s...

President, Pentagon Show No Signs of Backing Down

(Brett Rowland, The Center Square)  Federal officials showed no signs of changing course Tuesday after days of protests in Los Angeles sparked by opposition to enforcement of immigration law. “If...

Trump: Original Names of Army Bases to be Restored

(Sarah Roderick-Fitch, The Center Square)  Several U.S. Army bases will be returning to their original names, President Donald Trump announced during a speech at Fort Bragg. Trump, who is gearing...

A Report on the Bullish Case for Platinum

After fifteen years of stagnation, platinum has woken up in a big way with an impressive 36% surge over the past two months. Even more exciting, this bull market may...

Trump Says Tariff Truce With China Back on Track

(Brett Rowland, The Center Square)  President Donald Trump said Wednesday that U.S. talks with China in London resulted in a tentative deal that still needs China’s President Xi Jinping’s final...

The U.S. Dollar and Delusions of Growth

There are lots of investors out there operating under the delusion that their investments are performing well. That delusion is only possible if assets are priced in dollars. If they...

Trump on Arresting Gov. Newsom: ‘I Would Do It’

(Headline USA) California Gov. Gavin Newsom and the White House have been feuding over how to handle protests in Los Angeles—and now there are talks of Newsom’s potential arrest. The public...

Judge Allows Trump’s Ban on AP to Stand for Now

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) An appeals court reversed a lower court’s temporary injunction that had forced President Donald Trump to include the Associated Press in restricted White House spaces, including the...

Whoopi Goldberg Spins Conspiracy on Trump-Musk Feud

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The View co-host Whoopi Goldberg pushed a conspiracy theory about the public feud between President Donald Trump and tech mogul Elon Musk.  On Monday’s episode of The...

Whoopi Goldberg Spins Conspiracy on Trump-Musk Feud

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The View co-host Whoopi Goldberg pushed a conspiracy theory about the public feud between President Donald Trump and tech mogul Elon Musk.  On Monday’s episode of The...