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A new gold rush: States stockpile bars, encourage gold-backed debit cards
Submitted by admin on Fri, 2026-04-10 10:46 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Kevin Hardy
Stateline, Washington, D.C.
Friday, April 10, 2026
More states are piling up gold bars, or encouraging residents to use gold-backed debit cards, to hedge against inflation.
Several states, including Western ones with rich mining histories, have been stockpiling gold as part of their broader state savings. And more states are looking to follow the lead of Texas and Florida by passing so-called transactional gold laws that would invite consumers to save and spend gold through their own accounts.
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Tennessee rejects dangerous government-backed 'transactional gold' boondoggle
Submitted by admin on Fri, 2026-04-10 09:26 Section: Daily DispatchesFrom the Sound Money Defense League
via Money Metals Exchange, Eagle, Idaho
Thursday, April 9, 2026
Lawmakers in Tennessee delivered yet another blow to government "transactional gold" schemes today when the state legislature rejected harmful legislation, joining more than a dozen other states, including Georgia, Kansas, Arizona, West Virginia, Indiana, Kentucky, South Dakota, Idaho, Mississippi, Wyoming, and Michigan, in abandoning these schemes.
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Volatility conceals move out of dollars and into gold, Maguire tells LFTV
Submitted by admin on Fri, 2026-04-10 09:07 Section: Daily Dispatches9:07a ET Friday, April 10, 2026
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Central banks have used the market volatility caused by the war in the Middle East to reduce their holdings of U.S. dollars and Treasuries and increase their holdings of gold, London metals trader Andrew Maguire says in this week's edition of Kinesis Money's "Live from the Vault" program.
Volatility has concealed the gold purchases, Maguire says.
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Simon White: War has caused lasting damage to the dollar system
Submitted by admin on Thu, 2026-04-09 21:48 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Simon White
Bloomberg News
via MoneyControl.com, Mumbai, India
Thursday, April 9, 2026
The U.S. war with Iran has put a potentially irreversible strain on the global trading system, with gold reserves having eclipsed central bank holdings of valuation-adjusted dollar assets for the first time in several decades.
Gold standard advocate, Lincoln historian, and drug store chain founder Lewis Lehrman dies
Submitted by admin on Thu, 2026-04-09 14:41 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Joseph Berger
The New York Times
Friday, March 13, 2026
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/nyregion/lewis-e-lehrman-dead.html
Lewis E. Lehrman, who as a young man helped expand a family-owned Pennsylvania grocery business into Rite Aid, for years one of the nation’s largest drugstore chains, and then used his personal fortune to mount a surprisingly strong, though losing, bid to become the governor of New York in 1982, died on Wednesday at his home in Greenwich, Conn. He was 87.
Fort Knox is full of impure gold bars unfit for international transactions
Submitted by admin on Thu, 2026-04-09 10:06 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Mike Maharrey
Money Metals Exchange, Eagle, Idaho
Thursday, April 9, 2026
The bulk of the U.S. gold reserves held in Fort Knox are made up of impure "non-standard" bars that don't qualify to be used in international settlements.
In practice, this means that most of America's massive gold stockpile is illiquid and wouldn't be readily accepted on the international market should the need arise.
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Trafigura enters Ghana gold sector with Bogoso-Prestea deal
Submitted by admin on Thu, 2026-04-09 08:45 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Noel John and Maxwell Akalaare Adombila
Reuters
Thursday, April 9, 2026
Global commodity trader Trafigura has signed a deal with Ghanaian mid-tier miner Heath Goldfields Ltd to buy 700,000 ounces of gold ore from the Bogoso–Prestea mine, the companies said in a statement today.
Shashi Tharoor: India sits atop 500 million tons of gold ore, so why isn't it being mined?
Submitted by admin on Thu, 2026-04-09 08:34 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Shashi Tharoor
NDTV.com, New Delhi, India
Thursday, April 9, 2026
We are a nation obsessed with gold, a civilisation that treats the yellow metal as both a spiritual necessity and the ultimate firewall against the vagaries of fortune. Yet, while we sit atop an estimated 500 million tons of unmined gold ore, our domestic production remains a rounding error on the global ledger.
As France pulls gold from the U.S., how can China develop into the next global gold hub?
Submitted by admin on Thu, 2026-04-09 08:26 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Sylvia Ma
South China Morning Post
Wednesday, April 8, 2026
As the French central bank repatriates gold reserves from the United States, analysts say China should seize this "strategic window" to develop itself into the next global gold hub.
Ghana awards Gold Fields' Damang mine lease to local firm Engineers & Planners
Submitted by admin on Wed, 2026-04-08 10:36 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Christian Akorlie and Emmanuel Bruce
Reuters
Tuesday, April 7, 2026
ACCRA -- Ghana has selected local mining services company Engineers & Planners Ltd to take over Gold Fields' Damang gold mine, the mines minister said Tuesday.
Ghana, which is seeking to boost local ownership in its mining sector, rejected Johannesburg-based Gold Fields' lease‑renewal bid and took control of the mine last year, breaking with years of automatic extensions.
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