Daily Dispatches

By India McTaggart
The Telegraph, London
Monday, December 25, 2023

A rare gold medal featuring Edward VIII has emerged after an unsuspecting owner handed it to a pawnbroker.

The medal, thought to be one of just 26 in existence, bears the official Royal Mint effigy of the former king, whose reign lasted under a year before he abdicated the throne.

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12:54a Saturday, December 23, 2023

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Canadian mining entrepreneur and gold and silver advocate Eric Sprott was interviewed this week by financial letter writer Craig Hemke, providing a review of 2023 from a hard-money perspective. Sprott laments the increasing dishonesty in financial and political affairs, the underreporting of inflation, the naked shorting of the shares of mining exploration companies, gold price suppression by bullion banks, exploding government debt, and currency devaluation. 

By Merryn Somerset Webb
Bloomberg News
Friday, December 22, 2023

What's Christmas without a fight about money, a lunch-table villain and a really good book? For those who haven't yet finished their present shopping I have some suggestions that will give you all three in one happy package.

First up, someone must have a copy of "You Always Hurt the One You Love: Central Bankers and the Murder of Capitalism" by Bernard Connolly.

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By Alasdair Macleod
GoldMoney, Toronto
Thursday, December 21, 2023

Surely it is now apparent that central banks are guilty of mismanaging the economy. By slashing interest rates to zero and in some cases to an unnatural minus figure, then flooding financial systems with currency-equivalent credit conjured out of nothing, followed by rapidly increasing interest rates in an attempt to stem the consequences, central banks have bankrupted themselves and much of their entire economies.

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