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Sound Money Defense League president reviews efforts to remonetize gold

Section: Daily Dispatches

2:06p ET Friday, February 2, 2024

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Stefan Gleason, president of coin and bullion dealer Money Metals Exchange and chairman of the Sound Money Defense League, was interviewed this week by Jesse Day of the Commodity Culture channel on You Tube, discussing the league's work to restore gold and silver as money not just in the United States but throughout the world as well.

Miles Franklin's Andy Schectman explains the gold game in eight minutes

Section: Daily Dispatches

8:51p ET Thursday, February 1, 2024

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

With an eight-minute talk to Bullion News, Andy Schectman, president of coin and bullion dealer Miles Franklin, explains how governments have been using the New York Commodities Exchange to suppress gold prices and interest rates so central banks could acquire the metal at a discount even as they elevated it to an officially superior form of money, anticipating the de-dollarization of the world financial system.

Ted Butler: A big development in silver

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Ted Butler
SilverSeek.com
Thursday, February 1, 2024

Robert Lambourne: Gold intervention via BIS rose 21% in December

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Robert Lambourne
Thursday, February 1, 2024

Trading in gold swaps by the Bank for International Settlements, the central bank of the central banks, continued in December. From information in the BIS statement of account for December, published this week --

https://www.bis.org/banking/balsheet/statofacc231231.pdf

Can the UAE outshine Switzerland with gold?

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Dominique Soguel and Pauline Turuban
Swiss Info / Swiss Broadcasting Corp., Bern
Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Switzerland sits at the heart of Europe and has for decades been the dominant player in the global gold industry both in terms of refining capacity and trading. But the United Arab Emirates, which lies at the crossroads of the West and an increasingly affluent East, is threatening that supremacy, having built its position quietly over the past two decades.

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Alasdair Macleod: Tides of change in gold paper markets

Section: Daily Dispatches

3p ET Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Market analyst and GoldMoney research director Alasdair Macleod writes today that open interest in the gold futures contract on the New York Commodities Exchange has fallen sharply in recent days.

He concludes that the decline in the contract's liquidity will make prices more volatile and market rigging more difficult.

Macleod's analysis is headlined "Tides of Change in Gold Paper Markets" and it's posted at his internet site here:

Silver miners urge adding the metal to Canada's critical minerals list

Section: Daily Dispatches

2:50p ET Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold (and that other monetary metal, Silver):

Twenty executives of Canadian silver mining companies today sent a letter to Canada's minister of energy and natural resources, Jonathan Wilkinson, asking that silver be added to the country's official list of critrical minerals.

Along with gold, silver already seems to be on the U.S. government's list of critical currencies whose markets must be manipulated and their prices suppressed lest they resume their historic competition with the U.S. dollar.

Gold demand to hit record with central bank buying, gold council says

Section: Daily Dispatches

Will price suppression hit a record too? The council didn't say.

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By Yvonne Yue Li
Bloomberg News
Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Total gold demand hit a record last year and is expected to expand again in 2024 as the U.S. Federal Reserve moves toward cutting interest rates, potentially aiding prices, according to the World Gold Council.

GATA's Steer talks silver deficit, China's gold accumulation, and confiscation

Section: Daily Dispatches

12:48p ET Tuesday, January 30, 2024

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GATA board member Ed Steer, publisher of Ed Steer's Gold & Silver Digest, was just interviewed by radio talk-show host Dave Janda on WAAM-AM600 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, discussing, among other things, the structural deficit in silver, China's heavy accumulation of gold, and the possibility of government confiscation of privately owned gold.

The interview is 24 minutes long and can be heard at Janda's internet site here:

With 40,000 tonnes, China can trigger a weaponized gold revaluation at any time, Maguire says

Section: Daily Dispatches

10:23p ET Friday, January 26, 2024

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

China likely has 20 times the 2,200 tonnes in gold reserves it has officially reported, or 40,000 tonnes, London metals trader Andrew Maguire tells this week's edition of Kinesis Money's "Live from the Vault" program, making a weaponized gold price revaluation possible at any time.

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