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Craig Hemke at Sprott Money: Fed perception vs. Fed reality

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By Craig Hemke
TF Metals Report
via Sprott Money, Toronto
Tuesday, May 3, 2022

Wednesday brings the long-awaited conclusion of the May Federal Open Market Committee meeting. How will the statement read? 

More importantly, how will Chief Goon Powell respond in his "press conference"? 

But perhaps most important of all, does it even matter?

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Kranzler, Turk, many others featured in USAGold's 'News & Views' for May

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11:54a ET Monday, May 2, 2022

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

USAGold's "News & Views" letter for May emphasizes recent comments from Dave Kranzler of Investment Research Dynamics and GoldMoney's James Turk, but it is also full of a score of brief items of financial news and opinion. It's posted in the clear here:

https://www.usagold.com/nv1041may2022/

CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer
Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.
CPowell@GATA.org

Biggest buyer of Treasuries outside U.S. is quietly selling billions

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By Michael Mackenzie and Chikako Mogi
Bloomberg News
Monday, May 2, 2022

In times of Treasury turmoil, the biggest investor outside American soil has historically lent a helping hand. Not this time round. 

Japanese institutional managers -- known for their legendary U.S. debt-buying sprees in recent decades -- are now fueling the great bond selloff just as the Federal Reserve pares its $9 trillion balance sheet.

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Stress emerges again in Treasuries market

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By John Dizard
Financial Times, London
Saturday, April 30, 2022

When the world's biggest and most liquid market shows signs of stress, investors should take note.

At the beginning of this month, major financial market participants trading in the U.S. Treasury bond market had difficulty meeting the demands for collateral made by their counterparties.

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Dollar's surge leaves a trail of destruction

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By Saikat Chatterjee and Sujata Rao
Reuters
Friday, April 29, 2022

LONDON -- The dollar's race to two-decade highs is leaving a trail of destruction in its wake, exacerbating inflation in other countries and tightening financial conditions just as the world economy confronts the prospect of a slowdown in growth.

Maguire and Macleod discuss defections from Western financial system

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11:08p ET Friday, April 29, 2022

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

London metals trader Andrew Maguire interviews GoldMoney research director Alasdair Macleod on this week's edition of Kinesis Money's "Live from the Vault" program, discussing the defection of China, Russia, and other countries from the Western financial system.

Macleod and Maguire see a "commodification" of currencies as the Western system collapses, leading to a revaluation of gold.

The discussion is 57 minutes long and can be seen at YouTube here:

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard: China faces double disaster, caught between virus and Putin

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By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
The Telegraph, London
Friday, April 29, 2022

China should abandon all illusions that the West is in terminal decline, or that a new world order of authoritarian regimes is dawning.

It should ditch Vladimir Putin immediately. The country should not be tainted by the retrograde adventurism of a loser. Beijing should instead seek a new concordat with Washington, acting as a conciliatory stakeholder power.

Russian central bank chief rejects linking ruble to gold, differing with Kremlin

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From Bloomberg News
Friday, April 29, 2022

Bank of Russia Governor Elvira Nabiullina today dismissed the idea of pegging the ruble to gold after the Kremlin said it was a proposal under consideration.

"It is not being discussed in any way," Nabiullina told reporters at a briefing after the central bank cut the key interest rate by 300 basis points.

The ruble must continue to have a floating exchange rate, she said, though volatility of the currency will be higher amid capital controls imposed after Russia began its invasion of Ukraine.

Ronan Manly: Kremlin confirms intention to back the ruble with gold and commodities

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By Ronan Manly
Bullion Star, Singapore
Thursday, April 28, 2022

On Tuesday, April 26, in an interview with newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta, the secretary of the Russian Federation’s Security Council, Nikolai Patrushev, said that Russian experts are working on a project to back the Russian ruble with gold and other commodities.

The interview, which is in Russian, can be seen on the newspaper's website here:

Tennessee becomes 42nd state to end sales taxes on gold and silver

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By Stefan Gleason
Money Metals Exchange, Eagle, Idaho
via Coin Week, Ormond Beach, Florida
Thursday, April 28, 2022

Both houses of the Tennessee legislature yesterday overwhelmingly passed bills that would make the Volunteer State the 42nd state in the U.S. to remove sales taxes from constitutional sound money -- gold and silver).

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