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Craig Hemke's gold and silver forecast for 2022
Submitted by admin on Tue, 2022-01-11 21:04 Section: Daily Dispatches9p ET Tuesday, January 11, 2022
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
The TF Metals Report's Craig Hemke, writing tonight at Sprott Money, gives his gold and silver forecast for the new year and details the reasons for it. Monetary metals investors won't be too disappointed. The report is headlined "Reality Bites: A Forecast for Precious Metals in 2022" and it's posted at Sprott Money here:
Dollar's once-solid link to bond yields is breaking down
Submitted by admin on Tue, 2022-01-11 15:37 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Vassilis Karamanis and Payne Lubbers
Bloomberg News
Tuesday, January 11, 2022
The dollar is starting to decouple from the Treasury yields that it tracked so closely last year, adding to signs that the bulk of the currency’s windfall from higher rates has already passed.
Ed Steer: Dollar index craters but gold and silver do nothing
Submitted by admin on Mon, 2022-01-10 19:45 Section: Daily Dispatches7:40p ET Monday, January 10, 2022
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
GATA board member Ed Steer's Gold and Silver Digest letter for Saturday, headlined "The DXY Craters: Gold and Silver Do Nothing," is posted in the clear at GoldSeek's companion site, SilverSeek, here:
https://silverseek.com/article/dxy-craters-gold-silver-do-nothing-big8
James Turk: My perspective on money and liberty
Submitted by admin on Sun, 2022-01-09 15:24 Section: Daily DispatchesBy James Turk
Free Gold Money Report
Thursday, January 6, 2022
Several people have asked why I wrote "Money and Liberty: In the Pursuit of Happiness & The Theory of Natural Money" --
https://www.amazon.com/Money-Liberty-Pursuit-Happiness-Natural/dp/1739851110
-- while others requested some insight about its content.
My objective was to explain why:
Robert Lambourne: BIS gold swaps fell slightly in December; no hint of 'Basel III' influence
Submitted by admin on Sun, 2022-01-09 14:06 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Robert Lambourne
Sunday, January 9, 2022
The recently released December statement of account of the Bank for International Settlements --
https://www.bis.org/banking/balsheet/statofacc211231.pdf
-- contains information suggesting a decrease of about 37 tonnes in the bank's gold swaps, from 451 tonnes in November to 414 tonnes in December.
This compares to the record high estimated at 552 tonnes as of February 25 this year.
Sri Lanka sells monetary gold as forex reserves drop
Submitted by admin on Sat, 2022-01-08 17:45 Section: Daily DispatchesFrom Economy Next, Columbo, Sri Lanka
Saturday, January 8, 2022
Sri Lanka liquidated a part of its gold holdings in December 2020 to boost liquid foreign assets in line with a drop in annual foreign reserves holdings, Central Bank Governor Nivard Cabraal said, even as year-end reserves were boosted with a swap from China.
The central bank is estimated to have sold about 3.6 tonnes out of a 6.69 tonne stockpile of gold (about 215,000 troy ounces) it had at the beginning of 2021, leaving it with around 3.0 to 3.1 tonnes of gold.
Pam and Russ Martens: Fed's repo loans propped up Deutschebank and its counterparties
Submitted by admin on Fri, 2022-01-07 11:40 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Pam and Russ Martens
Wall Street on Parade
Friday, January 7, 2022
Nine days ago the Fed released the names of the Wall Street trading houses that had borrowed a cumulative total of $4.5 trillion in emergency repo loans from the Fed during just the last quarter of 2019.
From September 17, 2019, through July 2, 2020, the same banks had borrowed a cumulative total of $11.23 trillion.
Alasdair Macleod: Money supply and rising interest rates
Submitted by admin on Thu, 2022-01-06 12:56 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Alasdair Macleod
GoldMoney, Toronto
Thursday, January 6, 2021
The establishment, including the state, central banks and most investors are thoroughly Keynesian, the latter category having profited greatly in recent decades from their slavish following of the common meme.
That is about to change. The world of continual Keynesian stimulus is coming to its inevitable end with prices rising beyond the authorities' control. Being blinded by neo-Keynesian beliefs, no one is prepared for it.
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Brien Lundin: Inflation spooks the Fed but too late to stop gold
Submitted by admin on Wed, 2022-01-05 16:47 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Brien Lundin, Editor
Gold Newsletter / Golden Opportunities
New Orleans, Louisiana
Wednesday, January 4, 2021
Gold rallied over the last couple of days, essentially regaining all that it had lost on Monday’s sell-off. And then the Fed minutes were released.
Amazingly, the minutes showed that Federal Reserve officials and economists had apparently just discovered the rampant price inflation that everyone else had been talking about for months.
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How a gold-mining merger tightened a company's hold on northern Nevada
Submitted by admin on Tue, 2022-01-04 23:55 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Daniel Rothberg and Nick Bowlin
The Nevada Independent, Las Vegas
Monday, January 3, 2022
In the final days of 2019, Ches Carney noticed something strange on the bulletin boards at the northern Nevada gold mines where he had worked for nearly three decades. Stores in the nearby town of Elko were playing holiday music, but Carney was upset: The labor union documents normally posted to bulletin boards had disappeared.
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