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Shuli Ren: Hong Kong has all but abandoned the dollar peg

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By Shuli Ren
Bloomberg News
Wednesday, June 4, 2025

Interest rates in Hong Kong have been eerily low, raising the question of whether the city’s dollar peg is now in name only.

Hong Kong surrendered its monetary autonomy decades ago, thanks to a unique mechanism that restricts its currency fluctuation to a narrow band of 7.75 and 7.85 per dollar. That means the city's borrowing costs move in lockstep with those in the United States, which are dictated by the Federal Reserve's rate policies. 

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Brien Lundin: A great new novel about gold market manipulation

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Now if only mainstream financial news organizations, toadies of the government, would report the ordinary facts about it:

https://www.gata.org/node/20925

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By Brien Lundin
Gold Newsletter / Golden Opportunities
Wednesday, June 4, 2025

https://goldnewsletter.com/go062425/

I just finished reading a fascinating new novel based on a global manipulation of the gold market: "The Last Hamilton" by Jenn Bregman. 

Central banks have every reason to keep buying in gold market

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From Bloomberg News
Tuesday, June 3, 2025

Central banks have emerged as a driving force behind the record-breaking bull market for gold, and while the true scale of their buying is shrouded in mystery, nobody expects them to stop.

Globally, they are accumulating roughly 80 metric tons of gold a month, worth about $8.5 billion at current prices, analysts at Goldman Sachs estimate. Most of the buying is secret, although trade data indicates China accounts for a lot of the purchases, along with other unidentified buyers via Switzerland.

Sprott Money's Andrew Sleigh says it's still 'buy the dip' as manipulation weakens

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9:52p ET Tuesday, June 3, 2025

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold (and Silver):

Sprott Money's Andrew Sleigh, interviewed by his colleague Kellen Ainey, says suppression of gold and silver prices by bullion banks continues but is far less effective and has much less duration lately, in part because the bullion banks are using their own price smashing in the futures market to acquire actual metal at lower prices.

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Craig Hemke interviews Dave Morgan: Can silver go higher or is it stuck?

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By Craig Hemke
Sprott Money, Toronto
Friday, May 30, 2025

In this hard-hitting interview, precious metals expert David Morgan exposes how the Comex and paper silver contracts are distorting true silver prices -- leaving retail investors misled and market fundamentals ignored. 

From the gold-silver ratio sitting at historic extremes to the manipulation of physical delivery through cash settlements, David breaks down the critical problems behind the scenes. 

Jim Rickards: The BRICS go their own way

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11:35a ET Saturday, May 31, 2025

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

At the Daily Reckoning today financial analyst and author James G. Rickards takes note of the annual BRICS+ leaders conference to be held in Brazil next weekend. The conference won't produce a new gold-backed currency, Rickards writes, but it doesn't have to, since the BRICS+ countries are already treating gold itself as a currency. 

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Shift from derivative to actual gold is accelerating, Maguire tells LFTV

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11:10a ET Saturday, May 31, 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 says the international shift from gold derivatives to physical gold is hastening, led by China and the BRICs countries.

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Concerns about Trump renew fears for Germany's gold in New York

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By Francesco Canepa, Maria Martinez, and John O'Donnell
Reuters
Friday, May 30, 2025

The safety of Germany's gold reserves held overseas and in New York in particular, until recently mainly a talking point for the country's far-right party and gold bugs, is becoming a matter of public debate with Donald Trump back in the White House.

Small miners, big companies, and armed gangs fight over Peru's gold

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By Dan Collyns
The Guardian, London
Thursday, May 29, 2025

Deep in the mountains of northern Peru, a bloody war is being fought over gold. As its international price sets successive record highs above $3,000 an ounce, criminal gangs, illegal miners, and established mining companies battle over the metal.

The conflict is not fought out in the open but in a maze of tunnels that stretch for miles inside the mountains of Pataz, a gold-rich Andean province about 130 miles inland from Peru's third city, Trujillo. 

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Sean Ring: Government-inspired naked shorting of futures holds silver down

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By Sean Ring
The Rude Awakening
Paradigm Press, Baltimore
Wednesday, May 28, 2025

Why is one of the most useful metals on Earth, and a former pillar of the monetary system, still trading like it's 1999?

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