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Fort Knox episode of 'America's Book of Secrets' featuring GATA reaches YouTube
Submitted by admin on Wed, 2025-05-21 11:45 Section: Daily Dispatches11:45a ET Wednesday, May 21, 2025
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
The History channel at YouTube yesterday posted the entirety of the "America's Book of Secrets" episode from 2012 about the U.S. gold reserve at Fort Knox, an episode in which GATA has a prominent part.
The program has been rebroadcast in syndication on cable television networks many times in the last 13 years, but it may be of interest to those who haven't seen it already.
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China's gold imports surge to 11-month high despite record prices
Submitted by admin on Wed, 2025-05-21 11:11 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Yihui Xie
Bloomberg News
Tuesday, May 20, 2025
China imported the most gold in nearly a year last month despite record prices, after heightened demand for the precious metal prompted the central bank to ease restrictions on bullion inflows.
Total gold imports to the country reached 127.5 metric tons, a 11-month high, according to customs data released today. This represents a 73% jump from a month earlier, even after gold hit successive all-time highs, at once point touching $3,500 an ounce.
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Charlie Garcia: Why is the Fed quietly buying billions in bonds and hoping nobody notices?
Submitted by admin on Tue, 2025-05-20 08:22 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Charlie Garcia
MarketWatch, New York
Saturday, May 17, 2025
The U.S. Federal Reserve just pulled off something stealthy. Over four days last week, without fanfare, the Fed vacuumed up $43.6 billion in U.S. Treasurys. That's $8.8 billion in long-dated 30-year bonds on May 8 alone, plus another $34.8 billion earlier in the week. Not exactly small change.
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Warning about gold derivatives, European Central Bank suddenly sounds like GATA -- 25 years ago
Submitted by admin on Mon, 2025-05-19 15:04 Section: Daily Dispatches3p ET Monday, May 19, 2025
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Gold derivatives pose a risk to the world financial system, the European Central Bank said today in commentary written by four of its economists.
The commentary, headlined "What Does the Record Price of Gold Tell Us About Risk Perceptions in Financial Markets?," comes 25 years almost to the day after a GATA delegation led by Chairman Bill Murphy presented to Congress the organization's "Gold Derivative Banking Crisis" report, making the same point with far more extensive documentation:
Americans rush to sell their gold as price hovers near record
Submitted by admin on Sun, 2025-05-18 09:00 Section: Daily DispatchesFrom Fox Business, New York
Saturday, May 17, 2025
We're in the middle of the Gold Rush 2.0. But this time folks aren’t making money finding gold -- they're making money selling it.
With gold near an all-time high, selling for over $3,200 an ounce, folks are raiding their jewelry boxes and heading to pawn shops, jewelers, and smelters to turn their little-worn necklaces, watches, bracelets, and earrings into cash.
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On LFTV, Maguire describes China's comprehensive move into gold
Submitted by admin on Fri, 2025-05-16 22:05 Section: Daily Dispatches10p ET Friday, May 16, 2025
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
On this week's edition of Kinesis Money's "Live from the Vault" program, London metals trader Andrew Maguire describes China's comprehensive move into gold for trading, saving, and influencing the financial and currency markets.
Maguire also begins taking and answering questions directly from his viewers.
The program is 41 minutes long and can be viewed at YouTube here:
Purchase limits have tightened on Costco gold bars as popularity booms
Submitted by admin on Fri, 2025-05-16 19:58 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Mike Snider
USA Today, New York
Thursday, May 15, 2025
Gold has become such a hot commodity that Costco is apparently limiting how much its members can buy.
The warehouse retailer began selling 24-karat gold bars to its members in 2023, with a limit of two bars per person. Now that limit has changed to one per transaction and a maximum of two bars per 24 hours, when you look on the retailer website, as previously reported by Business Insider.
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U.S. government loses its last perfect credit rating
Submitted by admin on Fri, 2025-05-16 19:49 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Elisabeth Buchwald and Tami Luhby
CNN, New York
Friday, May 16, 2025
Moody's Ratings downgraded the United States' debt today, stripping the country of its last perfect credit rating.
The move could rattle financial markets and push up interest rates, potentially creating an additional financial burden for Americans already struggling with tariffs and inflation.
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Charlie Garcia: America just imported a mountain of gold, and that should scare you
Submitted by admin on Thu, 2025-05-15 22:00 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Charlie Garcia
MarketWatch, New York
Thursday, May 15, 2025
What do central banks know that the rest of us don't?
Something suspicious is happening with gold. Not the kind of suspicion when your neighbor suddenly buys a Ferrari. I mean the kind when a guy in dark glasses unloads mysterious crates at 2 a.m.
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Incrementum's 'In Gold We Trust' report for 2025 is published
Submitted by admin on Thu, 2025-05-15 10:08 Section: Daily Dispatches10a ET Thursday, May 15, 2025
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Liechtenstein-based asset manager Incrementum AG today published its much-awaited annual "In Gold We Trust" report, extensively detailing why the bullish case for the monetary metal remains strong.
It's posted here:
https://ingoldwetrust.report/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/In-Gold-We-Trust-report-2025-english.pdf
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