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Ted Butler: Silver's next run to $50 and beyond

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By Ted Butler
Thursday, August 9, 2018

Twice in the past the price of silver has risen in a short period to $50. It happened in 1980 during the Hunt brothers' manipulation and again three decades later in April 2011, when the price rose to nearly $50.

Craig Hemke at Sprott Money: Comex gold and the CoT report

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9:39p ET Tuesday, August 7, 2018

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Iranians hoard gold ahead of renewed U.S. sanctions

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By Asa Fitch and Aresu Eqbali
The Wall Street Journal
Sunday, August 5, 2018

Iranians are hoarding gold as a safeguard against a collapsing local currency and soaring cost of living as the United States is poised to impose economic sanctions on Iran, pushing the metal's price to records in Tehran.

Egon von Greyerz at KWN: Terror of 2008 will return but much worse

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6:28p ET Sunday, August 5, 2018

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Up to the Yukon, in search of his grandfather's gold

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After his grandfather amassed a small fortune (and then lost it all) panning for gold, a young prospector heads to Canada's Yukon Territory in hopes of striking it rich.

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By Ryan MacDonald
British Broadcasting Corp., London
Friday, August 3, 2018

Gold set for violent spike up, Maguire tells KWN

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2:47p ET Friday, August 3, 2018

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Now that there is a record short position in gold futures by speculators, "a huge move higher" in gold is near, London metals trader Andrew Maguire tells King World News today.

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard: China playing with fire in battle with Trump

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'We're at Economic War': China Is Playing with Fire in Battle with Trump

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
The Telegraph, London
via the Sydney Morning Herald
Friday, August 3, 2018

China's currency slide is moving from benign neglect to something more deliberate. Whether or not you deem it currency warfare, it is playing with political and financial fire.

Investors want Australian gold producers to buy their U.S. rivals

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By Ranjeetha Pakiam and David Stringer
Bloomberg News
Thursday, August 2, 2018

Gold producers in Australia are outperforming their global competitors, prompting investors to encourage them to expand their horizons and acquire struggling North American rivals.

In socialist Venezuela, the U.S. dollar becomes king

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By Rachelle Krygier
Washington Post
Thursday, August 2, 2018

CARACAS, Venezuela — As hyperinflation spirals toward 1 million percent, Venezuelans are confronting a deepening crisis that is pulverizing their incomes and spreading hunger.

Increasingly, the line between survival and starvation is determined not by having a job or an education, but something else.

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