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Gold is a powerful weapon both for and against central banking
11:59a ET Friday, February 25, 2021
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Time for another installment of our occasional feature "Ask a High School Graduate."
Our friend J.S. writes:
London metals trader Andrew Maguire said this week in his interview for Kinesis Money --
-- that price of silver will depend on the "Basel III" standards of the Bank for International Settlements being implemented this year.
... Dispatch continues below ...
American Lithium Named
to TSX Venture Exchange Venture 50
Company Announcement
via Globe Newswire and Yahoo Finance
Wednesday, February 24, 2021
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Canada -- American Lithium Corp. (TSX-V: LI, OTCQB: LIACF, Frankfurt: 5LA1) has been named to the 2021 TSX Venture 50, an annual ranking of top-performing listed companies on the TSX Venture Exchange.
The 2021 TSX Venture 50 is an annual ranking of the top-performing listed companies from five industry sectors: clean technology and life sciences, diversified industries, energy, mining, and technology. The selection is based on year-over-year performance across three equally weighted criteria: market capitalization growth, share price appreciation, and trading volume for the year ended December 31, 2020.
"We are very pleased to be recognized in the 2021 TSX Venture 50," said Michael Kobler, CEO of American Lithium. "The past year has seen American Lithium reach new highs as we continue to forge ahead on our large-scale TLC Lithium Project in Nevada and now that we have agreed to acquire Plateau Energy Metals to create a leading diversified lithium development company. On behalf of our Board of Directors, I thank our team at American Lithium for their hard work and our shareholders for their support along the way." ...
... For the remainder of the announcement:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/american-lithium-named-tsx-venture-141500...
My question as a potential silver investor is: Why can't the BIS simply delay or cancel these rules so that silver prices remain at their present low levels, so as to avoid disruptions to the New York Commodities Exchange?
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The BIS probably can do anything its Board of Directors wants it to do.
On the other hand, the new banking supervision regulations of the BIS have taken years of consensus building to develop, and rewriting them at the last minute might make the organization ridiculous to itself as well as the financial world.
In any case, gold and silver are closely linked as monetary metals, and gold especially is a powerful tool for central banking, as well as a powerful tool against it. Central banks use gold not just by suppressing its price to support their currencies and government bonds but sometimes also to devalue currencies and government and societal debts, to reliquefy themselves, and to restructure the world financial system.
In this respect see:
https://www.federalreservehistory.org/essays/roosevelts-gold-program
http://www.gata.org/node/11373
Given the extraordinary power of central banking and gold, isn't it funny that gold-related questions are never directed to central banks themselves by financial news organizations and market analysts -- that it is simply assumed that for central banks to run the world in secret, without accountability to anyone, is the natural order of things, and that answering for central banking should default to outsiders of limited education?
CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer
Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.
CPowell@GATA.org
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