9:14p ET Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Market analyst, trader, and gold advocate Vince Lanci, proprietor of the VBLGoldFix site at Substack, has just published a book titled "As Good As Gold: The Return of Real Money."
Lanci introduces it: "The international monetary system is not built on currencies. It is built on collateral. That single premise drives 'As Good As Gold: The Return of Real Money' -- a tight, readable account of how the world's money is actually settled, why gold quietly underwrites it, and what happens as the system that replaced gold begins to strain."
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He reviews "how gold once functioned as the world's settlement asset, why Treasury securities displaced it, and how the modern plumbing -- repo markets, rehypothecation -- keeps collateral in constant motion. From there he turns to the pressures now bearing down on that structure, from safe-asset scarcity to geopolitical fracture, and sketches the shape of a system in which Treasuries, gold, and commodity-backed assets coexist.
"Real money, in other words, may be on its way back."
The book is available in hardcover, paperback, and electronic format, and purchasing information is here:
https://vblgoldfix.substack.com/p/as-good-as-gold-the-return-of-real [2]
CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer
Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.
CPowell@GATA.org [3]
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