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Alasdair Macleod: Geopolitical evolution
Submitted by admin on Thu, 2023-06-29 10:38 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Alasdair Macleod
GoldMoney, Toronto
Thursday, June 29, 2023
The increasing number of nations seeking to join the BRICS brings geopolitics into the spotlight. At the time of this writing, existing members, those who have applied to join, and those expressing an interest total 36 nations, with over 60% of the world's population and a third of global GDP.
In talk with Wall Street for Main Street, GATA secretary reviews GATA's work
Submitted by admin on Wed, 2023-06-28 20:20 Section: Daily Dispatches8:20p ET Wednesday, June 28, 2023
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Interviewed today by Jason Burack of Wall Street for Main Street, your secretary/treasurer reviewed GATA's documentation of central bank intervention and particularly U.S. government intervention in the monetary metals markets, the likelihood that all major governments are aware of it, the refusal of mainstream financial news organizations to report about it, and why most monetary metals mining companies are too scared to acknowledge and protest it.
Maguire, Hemke discuss banking, gold issues on 'Live from the Vault'
Submitted by admin on Sun, 2023-06-25 11:46 Section: Daily Dispatches11:45a Sunday, June 25, 2023
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
On this week's Kinesis Money "Live from the Vault" program, London metals trader Andrew Maguire and TF Metals Report publisher Craig Hemke discuss, among other things, the growing stresses on the U.S. banking system, including those from the failure of commercial real estate; the desire of central banks to issue digital currencies; and the conflict between physical and "paper" gold.
The program is 58 minutes long and can be viewed at YouTube here:
Empty office buildings are the world's debt time bomb
Submitted by admin on Fri, 2023-06-23 11:19 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Natalie Wong, John Gittelsohn, Jack Sidders, and Shawna Kwan
Bloomberg News
Friday, June 23, 2023
In New York and London, owners of gleaming office towers are walking away from their debt rather than pouring good money after bad.
The landlords of downtown San Francisco's largest mall have abandoned it. A new Hong Kong skyscraper is only a quarter leased.
The creeping rot inside commercial real estate is like a dark seam running through the global economy.
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Alasdair Macleod: Updating Say's Law for modern times
Submitted by admin on Thu, 2023-06-22 16:25 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Alasdair Macleod
Thursday, June 22, 2023
It was John Maynard Keynes’ offhand dismissal of Say’s Law, or the Law of the Markets, in 1936 that is leading us into an economic and monetary crisis.
Keynes dismissed the law to invent a role for the state.
That is why Keynes is so popular in the mainstream establishment. By dismissing market reality, he invented a new branch of economics. Macroeconomics exchanged statistics and mathematics for human action, and the prospect of centralised management substituted for ambiguity.
Perth Mint faces more scrutiny after gold doping saga
Submitted by admin on Thu, 2023-06-22 16:16 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Keane Bourke
Australian Broadcasting Corp., Sydney
Thursday, June 22, 2023
The embattled Perth Mint is facing another investigation after a period of scrutiny, this time by a federal parliamentary inquiry.
Australia's financial crimes authority, AUSTRAC, has been investigating the mint since late last year over its level of compliance with anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing laws.
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Pam and Russ Martens spot more strange and spectacular action in derivatives
Submitted by admin on Wed, 2023-06-21 22:15 Section: Daily Dispatches10:14p ET Wednesday, June 21, 2023
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
In their commentary today Pam and Russ Martens of Wall Street on Parade report that the fantastic financial derivative positions of four behemoth U.S. banks, including JPMorganChase and Bank of America, were sharply reduced from trillions of dollars to mere billions in just a few months before the Federal Reserve began a rapid cycle of interest rate increases that likely would have caused the derivatives to cause huge losses for the banks.
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Jim Rickards: The biggest monetary shock in 52 years is due in August
Submitted by admin on Tue, 2023-06-20 20:55 Section: Daily DispatchesBy James G. Rickards
The Daily Reckoning, Baltimore
Tuesday, June 20, 2023
I recently revealed that the so-called "BRICS+" countries will announce the creation of a new currency at their annual leaders summit conference from August 22–24.
This will be the biggest upheaval in international finance since 1971. It's taking direct aim at the dollar.
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Craig Hemke at Sprott Money: Comex silver and the GDX price
Submitted by admin on Tue, 2023-06-20 20:46 Section: Daily Dispatches8:46p ET Tuesday, June 20, 2023
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Market analyst Craig Hemke, writing today at Sprott Money, notes that the price of the gold-mining share exchange-traded fund GDX seems to correlate closely with the silver price and not so much with the gold price.
Why? Hemke suggests that high-frequency trading of mining shares and market manipulation may have something to do with it, and that, indeed, rigging the silver price could be the key mechanism for rigging the whole monetary metals sector.
Butler notes huge rise in banks' metals derivatives positions, but whose are they really?
Submitted by admin on Mon, 2023-06-19 17:23 Section: Daily Dispatches5:29p ET Monday, June 19, 2023
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold (and Silver):
Market analyst Ted Butler today reports "stunning" increases in the monetary metals derivatives positions of JPMorganChase Bank and Bank of America and expresses concern that the latter bank could get in trouble with its derivatives insofar it is "inexperienced" in this market.
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