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Russia would like to mine Venezuela's gold
Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2018-12-26 14:12 Section: Daily DispatchesRussian Companies Get Green Light to Mine Gold in Venezuela
From Russia Today, Moscow
Wednesday, December 26, 2018
Venezuelan authorities have offered to let Russian companies take part in gold exploration and gold mining in the country, according to the Russian ambassador to Venezuela, Vladimir Zaemsky.
Ronan Manly: Russian central bank's gold buying now may extend to international markets
Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2018-12-25 11:15 Section: Daily Dispatches11:15a ET Tuesday, December 25, 2018
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
History will vindicate GATA -- if only when its founders are long gone
Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2018-12-25 10:30 Section: Daily DispatchesI am against bigness and greatness in all their forms, and with the invisible molecular moral forces that work from individual to individual, stealing in through the crannies of the world like so many soft rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, and yet rending the hardest monuments of man's pride, if you give them time.
The thousand-dollar bill that could be worth $3 million
Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2018-12-25 10:12 Section: Daily DispatchesToday the silver that backed this note would be worth 50 percent more than the note's face value.
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By James Tarmy
Bloomberg News
Thursday, December 20, 2018
Interest rate futures say Fed is all but done with hikes
Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2018-12-25 09:56 Section: Daily DispatchesFrom Reuters
Monday, December 24, 2018
The Federal Reserve is finished raising U.S. interest rates.
That is the message emerging from the interest rate futures market as Monday's full-blown flight from risk assets drove traders to price out nearly any prospect of further rate increases from the Fed, which raised rates again only last week.
Treasury secretary summons 'Plunge Protection Team' as markets tumble
Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2018-12-23 20:01 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Jason Lange
Reuters
Sunday, December 23, 2018
WASHINGTON -- U.S. President Donald Trumps Treasury secretary called top U.S. bankers on Sunday amid an ongoing rout on Wall Street and made plans to convene a group of officials known as the "Plunge Protection Team."
London's streets are no longer paved with gold as miners struggle
Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2018-12-23 16:02 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Thomas Biesheuvel
Bloomberg News
Sunday, December 23, 2018
Reports that AngloGold Ashanti Ltd. is considering a London listing provide some festive cheer to a city that's lost its way as a home for gold miners.
New York Sun: Trump should take on the Fed
Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2018-12-23 15:04 Section: Daily DispatchesFrom The New York Sun
Sunday, December 23, 2018
Should the chairman of the Federal Reserve take a lesson from Secretary of Defense Mattis?
Morgan trader's confession, CFTC's stonewalling reviewed by GATA secretary
Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2018-12-23 10:26 Section: Daily Dispatches10:21a Sunday, December 23, 2018
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Interviewed Friday by Chris Marcus of Arcadia Economics (https://arcadiaeconomics.com), your secretary/treasurer discussed recent developments in gold and silver market rigging by the U.S. government, its agents, and others. Among them:
Treasury secretary denies Trump is considering firing Fed chairman
Submitted by cpowell on Sat, 2018-12-22 19:03 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Jennifer Epstein, Erik Wasson, Billy House, and Elizabeth Dexheimer
Bloomberg News
Saturday, December 22, 2018
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin issued an emphatic statement saying President Donald Trump denied he had suggested firing Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and declaring the president doesn't believe he has legal authority to dismiss the central bank chief.