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Robert Lambourne: Stopping QE is likely to be extremely difficult for U.S.

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By Robert Lambourne
Monday, April 11, 2022

Cash flow trends at the U.S. Treasury suggest that it will be very challenging to meet the forecasts for government debt.
 
The major contribution of "quantitative eashing" (QE) to federal government funding in recent years is clear from the table below, and reducing QE seems likely to be especially tough in view of inflation and the reluctance to allow interest rates to climb much.

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Ronan Manly: Spotlight on gold and silver mining share indexes, Part 1

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By Ronan Manly
Bullion Star, Singapore
Friday, April 8, 2022

When glancing through news articles about precious metals prices, you will often come across references to the performance of various gold and silver mining stock indexes, as well as the exchange-traded funds that are benchmarked against these indexes.

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Russia's 'petro-ruble' draws gold into the energy trade, Maguire says

Section: Daily Dispatches

10:25p ET Friday, April 8, 2022

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

In his new interview with Shane Morand on Kinesis Money's "Live from the Vault" program, London metals trader Andrew Maguire says Russia has created a "petro-ruble" to compete with the "petro-dollar" and is drawing gold into the trade for Russian energy supplies.

The interview is 48 minutes long and can be viewed at YouTube here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YIkmYsZq74

Alasdair Macleod: The commodity currency revolution

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By Alasdair Macleod
GoldMoney, Toronto
Thursday, April 7, 2022

We will look back at current events and realise that they marked the change from a dollar-based global economy underwritten by financial assets to commodity-backed currencies. We face a change from collateral being purely financial in nature to becoming commodity based. It is collateral that underwrites the whole financial system.

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Russian central bank switches to negotiated price for gold purchases

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By Peter Hobson
Reuters
Thursday, April 7, 2022

Russia's central bank said today that due to a "significant change in market conditions" it would buy gold from commercial banks at a negotiated price from April 8.

On March 25, the bank had said it would buy gold at a fixed price of 5,000 roubles a gram until June 30.

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Russian coal and oil purchased in yuan start heading to China

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From Bloomberg News
via Yahoo News, Sunnyvale, California
Thursday, April 7, 2022

Russian coal and oil paid for in yuan is about to start flowing into China as the two countries try to maintain their energy trade in the face of growing international outrage over the invasion of Ukraine.

Several Chinese firms used local currency to buy Russian coal in March, and the first cargoes will arrive this month, Chinese consultancy Fenwei Energy Information Service Co. said. 

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Pam and Russ Martens: Does the NY Fed's trading floor near the futures exchange in Chicago cause the gyrations in the stock market?

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By Pam and Russ Martens
Wall Street on Parade
Thursday, April 7, 2022

The editor of Wall Street On Parade has been watching stock market trading patterns for more than three decades -- 21 of those years at two Wall Street firms. 

A new pattern is emerging that strongly suggests there is an invisible hand flipping the market on a dime from a plunge in prices to a dramatic spike in prices. 

This could happen legitimately if sudden positive news broke, but it is happening regularly with no major news to explain the dramatic shift in sentiment. 

Will Russia really care if U.S. actions make it default on its debt?

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Layna Mosley
The Washington Post
Thursday, April 7, 2022

On Tuesday the U.S. Treasury tightened the financial pressure on Vladimir Putin by prohibiting U.S. financial institutions from facilitating dollar-denominated debt payments to investors. 

Simply put, this made it much harder for Russia to pay its bondholders, raising the risk that Russia will default on its sovereign debt. 

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Australia's central bank will audit its gold reserves at the Bank of England

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Note toward the end of this report the assertion that Australia's leased gold never leaves the Bank of England's vault. That makes the leasing a mere accounting entry and suggests that infinite amounts of imaginary gold can be leased without any consequence but the suppression of gold's price in the futures and derivatives markets. Since the Bank of England is the custodian for most of the gold purportedly leased, the bank is running a racket -- but one that mainstream financial news organizations (and of course the World Gold Council) must never look into.

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Kinross Gold to sell Russian assets for $680 million

Section: Daily Dispatches

From Reuters
Tuesday, April 5, 2022

Kinross Gold Corp is selling its Russian assets to the Highland Gold Mining group of companies for a total of $680 million in cash, the Canadian company said today, nearly a month after suspending its operations in the country.

Several companies with exposure to Russia are taking steps to comply with sweeping Western sanctions against Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine.

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