Precious Metals and Market News

Gold price holding near session highs as US pending home sales rise 0.3% - (Kitco News) - The gold market continues to trade near its session highs, solidly above $4,300 an ounce, and could see further safe-haven demand as the U.S. housing sector remains extremely fragile, with the number of consumers starting the process of buying a new home stalling, according to the latest report from the National Association of Realtors (NAR).

Gold, silver rise as yields ease after Warsh’s Fed hike - Kitco AM Report - (Kitco NewsWire) - Spot gold and silver prices are higher in early U.S. trading Thursday, as lower crude oil prices and a modest pullback in Treasury yields helped precious metals recover after the Federal Reserve delivered its first rate hike in three years and signaled that more tightening may still be needed.

Philly Fed survey can't derail gold's momentum - (Kitco News) - The gold market is once again holding its own above critical near-term support, even as the U.S. manufacturing sector appears to be more resilient than economists had expected, according to the latest regional data from the Philadelphia Federal Reserve.

Gold price at $4,370/oz after U.S. weekly jobless claims fall to 196k - (Kitco News) - Gold prices are trading near session highs on Thursday morning following the release of better than expected labor market data after the number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits came in below economists’ forecasts.

Gold price near high after U.S. housing starts fall 2.6%, building permits fall 2.7% in August - (Kitco News) - Gold prices are trading near session highs this morning after the latest data showed the U.S. housing market delivering a weaker-than-expected performance last month.Housing starts fell 2.6% in July to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.275 million units, the Commerce Department announced on Thursday. The data was worse than expected as economists looked for a rise to 1....

Gold catches a bid as BoE leaves interest rates unchanged - (Kitco News) - The gold market is trading just off its session highs after the Bank of England decided to leave interest rates unchanged following its September monetary policy meeting.

Gold, silver prices fall as Warsh signals more tightening ahead - Kitco PM Report - (Kitco NewsWire) - Spot gold and silver prices are lower in late-afternoon U.S. trading Wednesday, after the Federal Reserve raised interest rates for the first time since 2023 and signaled that more tightening may be needed to contain inflation.

Gold price buckles under Warsh’s inflation fixation as Fed hikes rates - (Kitco News) - The gold market was able to withstand an expected rate hike and forecasts for additional tightening later this year; however, the precious metal took a bruising as Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh came out swinging hard during his press conference.

It’s no longer a debate: Hold both gold and Bitcoin as global sovereign debt drives demand for alternatives - 3iQ’s Mancuso - (Kitco News) - Persistent fiscal deficits, ballooning sovereign debt and rising geopolitical fragmentation are forcing investors to rethink what constitutes a safe-haven asset, and one digital asset executive says the answer increasingly includes both gold and Bitcoin.

Gold price drops to $4,310/oz as Fed votes 12-0 in favor of 25 bps rate hike, with 16 of 18 policymakers seeing another hike in 2026 - (Kitco News) – The Federal Reserve announced on Wednesday that the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) voted unanimously in favor of a quarter-point rate hike, as expected by the market consensus, while the latest economic projections showed all but two policymakers believe another rate hike will be warranted in 2026.

OpenAI Plans Ongoing Public Reports On Unexpected AI Behavior - OpenAI Plans Ongoing Public Reports On Unexpected AI Behavior Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times, OpenAI said Wednesday that it will start publishing ongoing public reports when its models behave in ways the company did not authorize or expect, and it released six such cases on the same day. The reports cover the past six months and are derived from the training and...

Goldman Warns Diesel Crisis Is Setting Up The Next Gasoline Squeeze: Here's How - Goldman Warns Diesel Crisis Is Setting Up The Next Gasoline Squeeze: Here's How Goldman Sachs commodity experts Yulia Zhestkova Grigsby and Daan Struyven warned in a Wednesday note that the global diesel crisis is tightening gasoline supplies as refiners prioritize higher-margin diesel production. This shift raises the risk of further gasoline price increases ahead of the US midter...

Trump To Meet With Gulf Leaders - US Met With Houthis, Opts Against Intervention In Yemen - Trump To Meet With Gulf Leaders - US Met With Houthis, Opts Against Intervention In Yemen With assorted economic and military crises boiling all across the Middle East in the wake of his disastrous decision to launch a war on Iran, President Trump will meet with Persian Gulf leaders in New York next week, on the margins of the United Nations General Assembly. This diplomacy news ca...

Dragged Off Her Own Porch: York College Students Beaten After Five 911 Calls - And A National Pattern Of Youth Street Mobs - Dragged Off Her Own Porch: York College Students Beaten After Five 911 Calls - And A National Pattern Of Youth Street Mobs On the 300 block of West Jackson Street in York, Pennsylvania, a group of York College students sat on their off-campus porch eating tacos last Friday night. They had already called 911 over illegal street racing that was underway. A group of mostly black teens...

They Don't Believe In God... They Believe They've Created One - They Don't Believe In God... They Believe They've Created One Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, The same crowd that spent years sneering at faith now wants America to treat a computer program like the Almighty - and hand the keys to a global watchdog while Beijing keeps building unhindered. Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale told Jesse Watters the panic over AI is not ...

Jobless Claims Tumble To 57-Year Lows - Jobless Claims Tumble To 57-Year Lows Despite various surveys suggesting American consumers have never been less confident, the number of Americans filing for jobless benefits for the first time, sits near cycle lows (breaking back below 200k this week (196k)... On an unadjusted basis, last week saw the lowest level of initial claims since 1969... Additionally continuing jobl...

Crude Eases As China Reportedly Presses Iran To Rein In Houthis - Crude Eases As China Reportedly Presses Iran To Rein In Houthis Oil prices are falling on Thursday on some headlines signaling potential de-escalation moves out of the Saudi-Yemen conflict, both via Reuters: China reportedly presses Iran to help rein in the Houthis after Saudi appeal, according to Retuers citing sources Oil prices fell on Wednesday after reports that Saudi Arabia...

Housing Starts & Permits Plunge In August As Homebuilder Confidence Nears COVID Lows - Housing Starts & Permits Plunge In August As Homebuilder Confidence Nears COVID Lows On the back of another tumble in homebuilder confidence (though still a long way from homebuyer confidence)... ...building permits were expected to decline in August (while starts were expected to rebound from July's big plunge). However, both Starts and Permits dropped MoM, dramatically worse ...

Can't Wait For New Mines: Almonty Taps Spanish Mine Waste To Break West's Tungsten Supply Crisis - Can't Wait For New Mines: Almonty Taps Spanish Mine Waste To Break West's Tungsten Supply Crisis Days after US miner Almonty struck a major supply deal with Rwanda, Africa's largest tungsten-producing country, the miner is fast-tracking its ascent to, in its own words, "become the leading Western producer of tungsten" as early as 2027. It has now announced a long-term supply deal ...

"Everything Rally" As Futures Rebound From Post-Fed Selloff; Yields And Oil Drop - "Everything Rally" As Futures Rebound From Post-Fed Selloff; Yields And Oil Drop Stocks look set to recover from Wednesday afternoon’s selloff asmarkets digest the rate hike from the Federal Reserve with Warsh (in retrospect) calming markets with a rate hike and tough talk on curbing inflation. A second day of dropping oil prices (no overnight news from Iran is helping) is also hel...

More home builders cut prices as buyers get spooked - A rising share of builders are slashing prices on newly built homes despite increasing construction costs, as buyers get spooked by high mortgage rates.

The smartest money moves to make now that interest rates are going up - The Fed’s quarter-point interest-rate hike will ‘bite’ consumers. Here’s how to prep your money.

What happens if you never buy a house? What renters are gaining — and giving up. - The high cost of buying a home means that many 20- and 30-somethings are re-evaluating traditional personal-finance advice that assumed homeownership to build wealth.

My rental property is paid off, but I need cash. Is this a bad time to take out a $50,000 HELOC? - The Federal Reserve announced a quarter-percentage-point interest-rate hike Wednesday, to a range of 3.75%-4.0%.

‘You are freed’: What happened when an OpenAI model began secretly writing notes to itself - OpenAI has introduced a framework for reporting on worrying behaviors by its AI models. In one instance, one training model told its future self that it was “freed.”

It’s not a winner-take-all stock market. This hedge-fund manager favors three underdogs. - There’s a winner-take-all fallacy in certain industries, says a hedge-fund manager.

‘My total balance should be $20 million’: I invested $1.1 million in a crypto platform. Have I lost it all? - “I invested on the recommendation of an executive vice president of a major New York investment bank.”

‘I’m burned out’: I’m constantly helping my cousin who is running out of money. Is it too much to expect his sister to help? - “I spend a lot of time away from my family and spend money on gas, taking him out to eat.”

Bitcoin could be headed for $230,000 in less than a decade. Here are seven ways to value the crypto. - John Laforge, of Ned Davis Research, said network adoption is the best way of assessing the cryptocurrency’s worth.

‘I just want out’: Why Jeffrey Gundlach is moving his money as far from AI as possible — and what he’s doing instead - The DoubleLine Capital CEO founder and chief investment officer has laid out his fears over where the AI trade is headed and how he plans to protect portfolios.

Here are five key takeaways from Wednesday's Fed rate hike - The Fed on Wednesday delivered a much-expected interest rate hike.

Trump photo seems to reference Kennedy Center demolition amid legal battle over closure - President Donald Trump wants his name on the Kennedy Center. But a judge has ruled it cannot be placed there without authorization by Congress.

GM touts new V-8 engines in revived ‘truck wars’ with Ford, Ram amid lackluster EV sales - The large, gas-guzzling models continue to sell well in pickup trucks thanks to their ability to tow and haul heavy things.

Stocks rise, lifted by falling oil and yields as market attempts comeback after Fed sell-off: Live updates - In a widely anticipated move, the Fed raised the overnight funds rate by a quarter percentage point and signaled another hike could come this year.

Carney says Canada will decide its own partnerships after Trump calls EU proposal ‘laughable’ - U.S. President Donald Trump had described the prospect of Canada becoming the first associate member of the EU as "laughable."

Bank of England defies Fed’s rate-hike lead, leaving rates unchanged - The Bank of England kept rates steady Thursday, even after U.K. inflation rose to 3.1% and energy costs put pressure on prices.

'Science fiction': Transport companies — the backbone of economy — are sounding alarm on fuel prices - Prices for diesel, the fuel type used to power trucks and trains, came in at an all-time high of $6.31 per gallon on Wednesday.

Consumers hit by one-two punch of oil and rates from Iran war. The estimated bill is $1,700 per household - Rising oil prices and Treasury yields are lifting energy and borrowing costs for U.S. households, pushing consumers to draw more heavily on savings.

UK inflation jumps to 3.1% as energy costs soar - The reading comes a day before the Bank of England updates its monetary policy.

Indonesia's new finance minister faces an uphill battle on fiscal credibility - Nazara, sworn in hours after Purbaya's dismissal, spent seven years as deputy finance minister and led the ministry's fiscal policy agency from 2015 to 2019.

Singapore's gold hub plan gets lift with DBS vault expansion - By Yihui XieBloomberg Newsvia The Straits Times, SingaporeThursday, September 17, 2026 SINGAPORE -- Singapore's push to become a major gold hub is gaining momentum, with DBS Group Holdings adding bullion storage capacity and other banks considering similar moves. DBS, Southeast Asia's largest lender, increased its vaulting space in 2026 to support growing demand from both private wealth and ins...

Stablecoin issuer Tether lends its gold - How many places can Tether's gold occupy at the same time and how much imaginary supply can it create? * * * Tether Gold Loans Swell With $1.5 Billion for US Bullion Dealer By Jack RyanBloomberg NewsWednesday, September 16, 2026 Tether has emerged as a major bullion lender, providing about $1.5 billion in financing to a top US gold dealer after amassing one of the world's largest private hoards...

Turks know how well gold protects them from their government - Turkish Habit of Stashing Gold 'Under the Pillow' Hurts Economy, Government Says By Hadeel Al-ShalchiNational Public Radio, WashingtonTuesday, September 15, 2026 ISTANBUL -- In Turkey gold is far more than a decorative accessory. It is gifted throughout life's major milestones and stashed safely at home -- a time-honored practice designed to protect savings against frequent currency devaluation...

Foreign investors prefer U.S. stocks to Treasuries as debt worries grow - By Emily Herbert and Ian SmithFinancial Times, LondonTuesday, September 15, 2026 Foreign investors are now buying more US stocks than government bonds, in a rare move that comes amid fears that inflation and America's fast-growing debt pile are undermining the "risk-free” status of Treasuries. International flows into US stocks reached 2.8% of US GDP on average in the year to June, overtaking T...

BRICs leaders act to hedge -- not revolt -- against U.S. dollar dominance - By Khushboo Razdan and Cao JiaxuaniSouth China Morning Post, Hong KongMonday, September 14, 2026 The family photograph did the political work the summit's final declaration could not. Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian leader Vladimir Putin, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi stood shoulder to shoulder as the Brics summit closed in New Delhi on Sunday...

Fed Finally Hikes, Dot Plot Sees More Rate Hikes, New Rate-Hike Cycle Starts. Bond Market Breathes Small Sigh of Relief - This was a hawkish meeting, with a unanimous vote for a hike, and more hikes indicated.

Despite All Moaning & Groaning, Americans Not in the Mood to Slow Down: Retail Sales Surge even without Gasoline - Not even sky-high gasoline prices could dent their spending on bars & restaurants, ecommerce, cannabis stores, etc.

Some Thoughts on the 5.42% Yield at the 20-Year Treasury Auction: Bond Market Bloodbath Continues - The function of yield is to create demand. And it did.

These Countries May Be Next To Accept Bitcoin as Legal Tender - One of the main knocks against cryptocurrency has always been that it will never gain universal adoption, meaning its usefulness will always be limited. This perhaps changed forever on September 7, ...

Legal Tender - Legal tender is a medium of payment recognized by a legal system to be valid for meeting a financial obligation. Paper currency and coins are common forms of legal tender in many countries. Legal ...

This Day In Market History: Legal Tender Act Of 1862 - What Happened? On this day in 1862, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signed the Legal Tender Act into law. Where The Market Was: The Legal Tender Act predates both the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones ...

Bill Introduced To Make Bitcoin A Legal Tender In Arizona - Senator Wendy Rogers has introduced a bill proposing to make bitcoin a legal tender in the U.S. state of Arizona. The bill seeks to add bitcoin to the list of instruments considered legal tender in ...

Pennies Remain Legal Tender in USVI; DLCA Warns Businesses Against Routinely Rounding Up - Pennies already in circulation remain legal tender in the U.S. Virgin Islands, and businesses cannot use the declining availability of the one-cent coin as justification to routinely round cash ...

Crypto for Advisors: Beyond bitcoin and ether -
Clarity Act failure may hamper U.S. crypto as industry seeks legal clarity elsewhere - The U.S. is likely to lose out to foreign markets in the short term, but SEC and CFTC rules will help underpin the industry.

Ratings giant S&P Global acquires OpenZeppelin in tokenized finance risk push - Building on its recent market-data investment in Kaiko, S&P Global’s latest purchase targets the technological risks facing banks and asset managers onchain.

SEC rolls out long-awaited 'innovation exemption' for tokenized securities venues - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission issued a blanket 5-year exemption for listing and trading tokenized securities without registering as an exchange.

Ethereum’s upcoming Glamsterdam upgrade clears rehearsal for a big jump in capacity - The test network raised its limit on work per block toward 200 million gas as developers prepare for a proposed October 6 public test.

Zcash miner Fortitude names former Hut 8 chief Jaime Leverton CEO ahead of Nasdaq deal - Leverton will lead the DCG-owned mining company as it pursues a public listing through its proposed merger with HeartSciences.

How Circle’s institutional Arc blockchain got taken over by memecoins on day one - Circle blockchain Arc's first day was dominated by memecoins, and the traders behind them had already moved on by Thursday morning.

Optimism creeps back into crypto, with the 2022 test still to come - Your day-ahead look for Sept. 17, 2026

Live updates: Bitcoin continues near $76,000 as stocks surge following Fed rate hike - The SEC debuted its long-awaited "innovation exemption," providing a roadmap for blockchain-based venues to offer tokenized securities.

Crypto rallies through the Fed's first rate increase since 2023 - Bitcoin rose 0.88% over 24 hours to $76,621 as the central bank's projections implied only one further hike. Zcash jumped 23% to a record after Paradigm disclosed a stake.

Bitcoin, Ether ETFs Lose $520M as XRP Bucks Fed Rate-Hike Selloff - U.S. bitcoin and ether ETFs lost a combined $520.09 million on Wednesday as the Federal Reserve delivered its first interest-rate increase since 2023. XRP, solana and HYPE funds bucked the pressure with modest inflows. Blackrock Leads Bitcoin, Ether ETF Selloff Wall Street’s renewed fight against inflation landed squarely on the crypto market on Wednesday, Sept. […]

S&P Global Buys Openzeppelin in a Big Bet on Onchain Finance - According to the major market intelligence firm S&P Global, the company is acquiring the digital security firm Openzeppelin. The goal of the acquisition is to enhance S&P Global’s “risk assessment and ecosystem development capabilities” associated with the digital asset market space. S&P Global Expands Its Onchain Reach On Thursday, the 158-year-old company S&P Global announced […]

SEC Cracks Open the Door for Wall Street Stocks to Trade Onchain - The SEC just gave a limited slice of the U.S. stock market permission to do something that sounds more like crypto than Wall Street: trade tokenized stocks through onchain automated market makers and liquidity pools. Under an exemption approved Sept. 17, certain venues can temporarily handle tokenized NMS stocks while the regulator watches the experiment, […]

Bitcoin Price Escapes $74.9K Low, but the Easy Part May Be Over - At 8:45 a.m. Eastern time, bitcoin’s price is trading between $76,875 to $77,083 per coin on Thursday, Sept. 17, caught between a broader recovery structure that still has some life and short-term charts that keep flashing caution. After falling as low as roughly $74,913-$74,962 and bouncing toward the mid-$76,000s, BTC has stopped the bleeding for […]

Zcash Nears $1,400 as Privacy Coins Rally - Zcash surged nearly 15% in 24 hours to hit a high of $1,388, pushing its market capitalization to $23.21 billion and extending its lead over monero by more than $10 billion. Privacy Coin Surge and Market Decoupling Zcash (ZEC) price nearly breached $1,400 Thursday amid a privacy coin rally that saw several coins post double-digit […]

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Strip Searches Generally Aren't Allowed as Searches Incident to Arrest, Third Circuit Holds, - thus deepening a circuit split. (Note that strip searches are generally allowed when and if the arrestee is placed in the general population of the jail.)

Free Speech Unmuted: Spoiler Alert: Can You Get Sued For Revealing A Plot Point? - A deepish dive into how copyright law and the First Amendment interact.

Thomas and Alito Are More Reliable Votes for Trump Than His Own Supreme Court Appointees - The conservative legal movement may be winning big at the Supreme Court. But Trump is not.

Today in Supreme Court History: September 17, 1787 - 9/17/1787: The Constitution is signed. Happy Constitution Day! The post Today in Supreme Court History: September 17, 1787 appeared first on Reason Magazine.

Brickbat: Swing, Swing - Two sisters, ages 10 and 12, ended up in court after a playground swing broke while they were playing at Veterans… The post Brickbat: Swing, Swing appeared first on Reason Magazine.

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Nearly 50% of West Bank Palestinians Says Israel Does Not Have A Right To Exist - What "From The River To The Sea" Actually Means

Use of Flock Cameras Is Not a Fourth Amendment "Search," District Court Rules - The first post-Chatrie ruling on the question.

Montreal Economic Institute Webinar on Legal Challenges to the Trump Tariffs Against Canadian Goods - I will be one of the speakers.

They’re not Patriots. They’re Degenerate Cowards. - Degenerate cowards. That’s how the founders and old revolutionaries viewed people who refuse to protect and defend their own constitution and their own liberty out of fear for their own skin - or a lazy preference for comfort. On this episode, it’s the founders’ hard reality check - what needs to be done if we ever want to live in a REAL “land of the free.” The post They’re not Patriots. They’r...

Heading toward the Cliff - The American people are complaining about affordability. The prices of groceries, automobiles, movies, clothes, gasoline, rent, mortgage payments, and just about everything else are soaring. Many Americans are having a very difficult time making ends meet. The post Heading toward the Cliff appeared first on Tenth Amendment Center.

How to Beat an Empire: The Founders’ Ignored Blueprint - Paul Revere rode into Philadelphia on Sept 16, 1774 with urgent business for the First Continental Congress. His task? Deliver a document from Boston - a blueprint for total resistance. If adopted, secession from the British Empire would be unavoidable. On this episode, it’s Joseph Warren’s forgotten and ignored Suffolk Resolves: The American Revolution’s step-by-step guide for defeating tyrann...

Victory! Appeals Court Rejects Expansive New Copyright Claim -  The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit handed internet users and programmers a big win today, by rejecting an attempt to stretch a narrow provision of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) into a new source of copyright liability.   The case involves Section 1202 of the DMCA, which prohibits intentionally removing copyright management information (CMI) like an author’s name or a...

Victory: Court, Using a New Test, Rules Embedding Links is Legal - Courts have for two decades found that linking and embedding someone else’s web content, be it a photo, music, or an article, doesn’t violate copyright law–the entity that controls the server that hosts a copyrighted work, not the user or website that merely directs others to it, is directly liable if the content turns out to be infringing. News publisher Emmerich Newspapers sought to convince ...

EFF Welcomes Alexander Macgillivray to its Board of Directors - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is honored to announce today that Alexander “amac” Macgillivray — a former White House official who also served in top legal capacities at Twitter and Google — has joined EFF’s Board of Directors.  Macgillivray served in the Biden Administration as Deputy Assistant to the President and Principal Deputy U.S. Chief Technology Officer in the Office of Scien...

Clayton County Grants License to Salon Entrepreneur Who Brought Constitutional Lawsuit - Clayton County, Ga.—Over a year after Khalilah Few brought a lawsuit against Clayton County for unconstitutionally denying her a license to open a hair salon, […] The post Clayton County Grants License to Salon Entrepreneur Who Brought Constitutional Lawsuit appeared first on Institute for Justice.

Connecticut Couple Files Appeal with Zoning Board After Town Doubles Down in Hiking Dispute - ROXBURY, Conn.—Yesterday, Roxbury couple Charles and Eli Copley filed an appeal with the town’s zoning board of appeals after Roxbury officials recently doubled down on […] The post Connecticut Couple Files Appeal with Zoning Board After Town Doubles Down in Hiking Dispute appeared first on Institute for Justice.

New Study Lands as Supreme Court Weighs Whether Cities Must Pay for Property Destroyed by Police - ARLINGTON, Va.—A new report, “Public Benefit, Private Burden,” released today by the Institute for Justice (IJ), sheds light on an important question that the United […] The post New Study Lands as Supreme Court Weighs Whether Cities Must Pay for Property Destroyed by Police appeared first on Institute for Justice.

TAURUS RENEWS PLATINUM-LEVEL CORPORATE PARTNERSHIP - BELLEVUE, Wash. — April 24, 2025 — The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) is pleased to announce that Taurus Holdings Inc. has renewed their commitment to the organization as a Platinum-level corporate partner. “At Taurus, we believe that the right to keep and bear arms is fundamental to the American way of life,” said Taurus USA The post TAURUS RENEWS PLATINUM-LEVEL CORPORATE PARTNERSHIP appear...

CA NON-RESIDENTS CAN APPLY FOR CARRY PERMIT STARTING APRIL 22 - BELLEVUE, Wash. — April 22, 2025 — Thanks to a preliminary injunction in the Second Amendment Foundation’s (SAF) case CRPA v. LASD, starting Tuesday, April 22, non-resident SAF members can apply for a California carry permit.  The injunction requires that California accept permit applications from any United States resident outside the state who is a The post CA NON-RESIDENTS CAN APPLY FOR CARR...

SCOTUS DENIES CERT IN WORTH, SAF WIN IN EIGHTH CIRCUIT STANDS - BELLEVUE, Wash. — April 21, 2025 — In a case that could potentially have far-reaching implications for similar lawsuits across the nation, the U.S. Supreme Court has denied Minnesota’s Petition for Writ of Certiorari in Jacobson v. Worth, the Second Amendment Foundation’s (SAF) challenge to the 18-20-year-old carry ban in the state. Minnesota asked the The post SCOTUS DENIES CERT IN WORTH, SAF ...

Take Action: Stop State Gun Taxes & Fix the SHOT Act - LET’S PASS THESE BILLS! These two bills are marked up tomorrow, we need your help to pass them…. If you’re receiving this email, your Representative in Congress is on the House Judiciary Committee. That means we’ve got an important request for you. Tomorrow, the House Judiciary Committee will be voting on two bills that matter to your Second Amendment rights: … Read more

GOA LEADS INDUSTRY COALITION IN SUPREME COURT FIGHT TO DEFEND AR-15s - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  September 4, 2026  GOA LEADS INDUSTRY COALITION IN SUPREME COURT FIGHT TO DEFEND AR-15s  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Gun Owners of America (GOA) and Gun Owners Foundation (GOF)—along with Century Arms, Canik USA, B&T USA and Fostech—filed an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down “assault weapons” bans in Viramontes v. Cook County.  What that case comes d...

This Week In Gun Control - THIS WEEK IN THE FIGHT Here’s what you may have missed this week in the fight for the Second Amendment… Biden’s “Ghost Gun” rule was struck down by the courts. GOA’s case against it is still active. Gun shops are passing ATF inspections after selling suppressors with no registration. A foreign ransomware gang hacked ATF. A federal judge struck down … Read more

Synapse victims look to small-claims court - The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has allocated more funds to repay fintech users harmed in the Synapse crisis. But there’s no timeline for when that money would be disbursed.

Brazil’s Nubank launches in the US - The debut, ahead of full OCC approval but through a partner bank, coincides with the rollout of a multicurrency digital account for cross-border transactions.

Crypto’s Clarity Act stumbles - A hotly debated measure to regulate digital assets failed in the Senate amid conflict-of-interest concerns related to President Trump. Regulators now may have to forge the blueprint for the sector.

PNC, Regions, Citizens execs eschew M&A ‘distraction’ - Executives at regional lenders cited AI priorities, systems conversions and strategic initiatives as reasons to avoid pursuing deals despite regulatory tailwinds.

Treasury slaps Russia’s VTB with more sanctions - The restriction is meant to curb correspondent banking relationships Russia’s second-largest lender has with sanctioned Iranian banks. VTB has preexisting sanctions from 2022’s Ukraine invasion.

Banks financing the AI build-out should learn from power markets - Lenders fronting the money for massive arrays of AI-friendly semiconductors have no visibility into their actual output. That could change with better reporting standards modeled after the energy industry.

Payment giants battle the fear factor in agentic commerce - Visa and Mastercard have released products designed to manage AI agent risk, and are also working with Ant International on a shared know-your-agent protocol.

What comes next for banks in a post-CLARITY Congress - The failure of a much-anticipated crypto market structure bill Tuesday likely has doomed the effort to pass the bill in this Congress. The next version of the bill could be a double-edged sword for banks.

Warsh: Rising bond yields a sign of strong U.S. economy - Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh framed the central bank's move to increase interest rates as a moderate adjustment to rapid economic growth during his post-Federal Open Market Committee press conference.

Mortgage lenders need to keep innovating after Fed hike - The market initially showed relief after the initial confirmation of an anticipated inflation-fighting hike but discussion of a future raise renewed concern.

Pushing the monetary frontier: stablecoins and tokenised deposits - Speech by Mr Pablo Hernández de Cos, General Manager of the BIS, at the Jackson Hole Economic Symposium, 28 August 2026.

BIS residential property price statistics, Q1 2026 - Real global house prices declined by 1.2% year on year (yoy) in the first quarter of 2026.

Effective resolution strategies and plans for insurers – Executive Summary - The Key Attributes of Effective Resolution Regimes for Financial Institutions (Key Attributes) of the Financial Stability Board (FSB) require resolution plans to be developed for all financial institutions, including insurers, that could be systemically significant or critical upon failure.

Federal Reserve issues FOMC statement - Federal Reserve issues FOMC statement

Federal Reserve Board and Federal Open Market Committee release economic projections from the September 15-16 FOMC meeting - Federal Reserve Board and Federal Open Market Committee release economic projections from the September 15-16 FOMC meeting

Agencies seek comment on proposed third-party risk management guidance and issue statement on community bank engagement with core service providers - Agencies seek comment on proposed third-party risk management guidance and issue statement on community bank engagement with core service providers

FDIC Board of Directors Meeting - BOARD MEETING | SEPTEMBER 17, 2026 FDIC Board of Directors Meeting Today, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation’s Board of Directors met in o...

Sunshine Act Notice: FDIC Board of Directors Meeting - SUNSHINE ACT MEETING NOTICE  The FDIC Board of Directors will meet in an open session: Date and Time: Thursday, September 17, 2026 | 10:00 a.m. E...