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Digital gold from Perth Mint threatens $122 billion in gold-backed ETFs

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By Tony Boyd
Australian Financial Review, Sydney
Tuesday, January 30, 2018

The Perth Mint's release of digital gold certificates for trading, holding, and transferring physical gold could have profound consequences for the $US98 billion ($122.5 billion) in gold-backed exchange traded funds.

Gold's revaluation is 'just a matter of time,' but then so is everything else

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11:34a ET Sunday, January 28, 2018

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Our friend P.C. writes:

"As a long-time GATA follower, I fully subscribe to the understanding that markets generally, and particularly the precious metal markets, are controlled to keep international exchange and trade 'stable' and maintain 'Western' market wealth. But I have a question you may be able to answer.

Brandon White: Canada's bank regulator already considers gold the ultimate asset

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4:38p ET Saturday, January 27, 2018

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GATA's Ed Steer interviewed in Vancouver on silver price suppression

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9:30a ET Saturday, January 27, 2018

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

In reversal, EPA deals setback to controversial gold mining proposal in Alaska

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By Juliet Eilperin and Brady Dennis
The Washington Post
Friday, January 26, 2018

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt announced late Friday that he will not scrap the agency's 2014 determination that a large-scale mining operation could irreparably harm Alaska's Bristol Bay water­shed.

Divers find stash of rare gold coins at site of 1800s wreck off NC coast

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By Mark Price
Charlotte (North Carolina) Observer
Friday, January 26, 2018

A stash of gold coins found Monday is the latest piece of evidence that a shipwreck 40-plus miles off the North Carolina coast is that of the steamship Pulaski, which took half its wealthy passengers to the bottom of the Atlantic in 1838.

Complaints of gold and silver market rigging are more than 'sour grapes'

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8:48p ET Friday, January 26, 2018

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Technical analyst Clive Maund today takes a crack at those who complain about the rigging of the monetary metals markets.

In commentary headlined "Controlled Demolition of the Markets -- Dollar, Next Treasuries, Then Stocks -- Gold, Silver, and PM Stocks to Soar" --

https://www.clivemaund.com/article.php?id=4517

Sprott comments on doubletalking U.S. dollar policy, teetering bond market

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7:34p ET Friday, January 26, 2018

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Coincheck says it lost $400 million in crypto coins

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By Yuji Nakamura and Andrea Tan
Bloomberg News
Friday, January 26, 2018

One of Japan's biggest cryptocurrency exchanges said that about $400 million in NEM tokens were lost after the coins were sent "illicitly" outside the venue, spooking investors in a country that's still wary of digital-token exchanges four years after the collapse of Mt. Gox.

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