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Ted Butler: CFTC and Justice Dept. overlook manipulative short position in silver

Section: Daily Dispatches

8:28p ET Thursday, February 21, 2019

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

At the urging of Jim Cook of Investment Rarities and with the assistance of 24hGold, silver market analyst Ted Butler's most recent proprietary letter has been posted in the clear.

Alasdair Macleod: The return to a gold exchange standard

Section: Daily Dispatches

4:17p ET Thursday, February 21, 2019

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Citigroup asks Treasury what to do with $1.1 billion Maduro gold deal

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Patricia Laya
Bloomberg News
Thursday, February 21, 2019

Citigroup bankers have been holding talks with U.S. Treasury officials to figure out how to handle a gold deal they had arranged with Nicolas Maduro's regime in Venezuela, people familiar with the matter said.

Shareholders' Gold Council doesn't want to hear about market rigging

Section: Daily Dispatches

10a ET Thursday, February 21, 2019

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Deutsche Bank lost $1.6 billion on municipal bond bet, concealed it

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Jenny Strasburg and Gretchen Morgenson
The Wall Street Journal
Wednesday, February 20, 2019

Deutsche Bank racked up a loss of $1.6 billion over nearly a decade on a complex municipal-bond investment that it bought in the run-up to the 2008 financial crisis and failed to confront even as markets were upended and regulations tightened.

Feds advance Alaska's Pebble gold and copper project with release of draft environmental review

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Alex DeMarban
Anchorage Daily News, Anchorage, Alaska
Wednesday, February 20,2019

The Trump administration today unveiled the first draft environmental review of the controversial Pebble gold and copper project.

In sharp U-turn, monetary policy easing is back in play across Asia

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Marius Zaharia
Reuters
Wednesday, February 20, 2019

HONG KONG -- A slowing global economy and increasing strain on businesses from a year-long Sino-U.S. trade war are tilting central banks from Japan to Australia toward monetary easing in a remarkable 180-degree turn.

Shuli Ren: U.S., not China, is the currency manipulator

Section: Daily Dispatches

The Yuan Has Been Tracking the Dollar, So Any Volatility Begins at Home in Washington.

By Shuli Ren
Bloomberg News
Wednesday, February 20, 2019

President Donald Trump should take a look in the mirror. China isn't the currency manipulator.

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