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Australian gold miner makes $443 million claim against Ghana in international court
Submitted by admin on Wed, 2024-12-25 09:40 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Eryk Bagshaw and Edward Adeti
Sydney Morning Herald
Wednesday, December 25, 2024
An Australian mining company has filed a claim for $443 million against the Ghanaian government for multiple contract breaches that resulted in it losing the entire value of its gold mine in west Africa.
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Submitted by admin on Wed, 2024-12-25 09:26 Section: Daily Dispatches9:23a ET Wednesday, December 25, 2024
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Longstanding Western central bank policy of monetary metals price suppression has never been more vulnerable than it is today.
Governments and central banks around the world have been defecting from the policy this year, accumulating gold and silver instead of lending them.
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It's a wonderful life -- and a political one
Submitted by admin on Tue, 2024-12-24 18:43 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Chris Powell
Tuesday, December 24, 2024
https://chrispowellcolumn.com/2024/12/23/its-a-wonderful-life-and-a-political-one-3/
Frank Capra's 1946 film, "It's a Wonderful Life," to be broadcast again Christmas Eve at 8 p.m. by NBC television, is loved most for its personal message of discovery at Christmas: that its hero's life has been, unbeknownst to him, crucial to his family, friends, community, and even his country.
Hong Kong's 114-year-old bullion bourse restructures to grow internationally
Submitted by admin on Tue, 2024-12-24 13:29 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Enoch Yiu
South China Morning Post
Friday, December 20, 2024
Members of the Chinese Gold & Silver Exchange Society voted to turn the city's 114-year-old gold bourse into a corporation in a bid to expand internationally and support the government's ambition to reboot Hong Kong as an international trading hub.
Founded in 1910, the society is the only bourse in Hong Kong that uses an electronic platform and an open outcry method for participants to trade physical gold and silver.
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Jan Nieuwenhuijs: China secretly snaps up more gold and positions for metal's greater role
Submitted by admin on Tue, 2024-12-24 13:09 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Jan Nieuwenhuijs
Money Metals Exchange, Eagle, Idaho
Tuesday, December 24, 2024
While 99% of the media keeps staring at official data by the Chinese central bank (PBoC)—misleadingly stating it added 5 tonnes of gold in November following a supposed six-month pause—the PBoC’s "unreported" purchases in London accounted for a stunning 60 tonnes in September and another 55 tonnes in October.
And while cross-border trade statistics from the U.K. for November have yet to released, I foresee another purchase of a similar magnitude.
El Salvador lawmakers overturn mining ban
Submitted by admin on Mon, 2024-12-23 17:21 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Thomas Graham
Financial Times, London
Monday, December 23, 2024
El Salvador’s congress overturned a blanket ban on metal mining in a bid to find new sources of economic growth, handing a win to President Nayib Bukele despite criticism over the measure from environmental and religious groups.
The ban, which was the first of its kind in the world, was introduced in 2017 to protect the country's water resources. Bukele, who came to power in 2019, described it as "absurd."
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Gold-backed scholarship program awards $11,500 to nine students
Submitted by admin on Sun, 2024-12-22 20:33 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Jp Cortez
Money Metals News Service, Eagle, Idaho
Friday, December 20, 2024
Nine bright young scholars earned $11,500 to put toward the cost of college through a scholarship program promoting the sound money cause.
The Sound Money Scholarship is an annual essay contest organized by Money Metals Exchange (the U.S. precious-metals dealer ranked "Best Overall") and the Sound Money Defense League, a national public policy group at the forefront of sound money legislative battles across the country since 2014.
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Lambourne and Powell: If China forces gold reset, ETF gold may be most vulnerable
Submitted by admin on Sun, 2024-12-22 12:10 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Robert Lambourne and Chris Powell
Sunday, December 22, 2024
Anyone who has read the reports published by GATA over the years will understand that owning physical gold and silver is the preferred way to hold monetary metals.
No history of gold ownership in the United States would be complete without reference to Executive Order 6102, issued by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933 and meant to confiscate gold owned by the public:
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Submitted by admin on Thu, 2024-12-19 19:40 Section: Daily Dispatches12:16p ET Sunday, December 24, 2024
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Longstanding Western central bank policy of monetary metals price suppression has never been more vulnerable than it is today.
Governments and central banks around the world have been defecting from the policy this year, accumulating gold and silver instead of lending them.
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Miles Franklin's Andy Schectman interviews GoldMoney founder James Turk
Submitted by admin on Wed, 2024-12-18 14:22 Section: Daily Dispatches2:23p ET Wednesday, December 18, 2024
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
GoldMoney founder and monetary metals advocate James Turk is Andy Schectman's guest this week on bullion dealer Miles Franklin's "Little by Little" program. They discuss Turk's long career in international banking and the monetary metals, as well the prospects for a return of constitutional money to the United States.
The program is 58 minutes long and can be viewed at YouTube here:
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