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Trump's comments send dollar reeling

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By Chelsey Dulaney
The Wall Street Journal
Tuesday, January 17, 2017

The dollar slid to a one-month low today after President-elect Donald Trump described the currency as "too strong" in an interview with The Wall Street Journal, casting new uncertainty onto the dollar’s postelection rally.

Hugo Salinas Price: The further decline in international reserves

Section: Daily Dispatches

7:58p ET Monday, January 16, 2017

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Von Greyerz and Maguire interviewed at King World News

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4:27p ET Sunday, January 15, 2017

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Interviewed by King World News, Swiss gold fund manager Egon von Greyerz says gold long has been outperforming stock markets around the world even as those markets are in bubble territory:

http://kingworldnews.com/the-greatest-secret-of-this-century-and-why-gol...

GATA secretary to speak at Singapore and Hong Kong conferences in March and April

Section: Daily Dispatches

10:39a Sunday, January 15, 2017

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Your secretary/treasurer will speak at the end of March at the Mining Investment Asia conference in Singapore and at the beginning of April at the Mines and Money Asia conference in Hong Kong, Asia being more sympathetic to gold's monetary functions than North America is.

Lady Liberty will be a black woman on a U.S. gold coin in April

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And she's as beautiful as can be.

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By Erin McCann
The New York Times
Friday, January 13, 2017

The United States Mint will release in April a commemorative gold coin that will feature Lady Liberty as a black woman, marking the first time that she has been depicted as anything other than white on the nation’s currency.

Will this stop traders from using personal cell phones for text messages?

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Deutsche Bank Is Banning Text Messages on Company-Issued Phones

By Steve Arons and Ambereen Choudury
Bloomberg News
Friday, January 13, 2017

Deutsche Bank has banned text messages on company-issued phones in an effort to improve compliance standards.

Real metal will defeat paper gold someday, Hathaway writes contentedly

Section: Daily Dispatches

12:34p ET Thursday, January 12, 2017

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

In his market letter this month. Tocqueville Gold Fund manager John Hathaway says the physical gold market will defeat the paper gold market someday, leading to a much higher price for the monetary metal.

Gold swaps by BIS exploded in 2016 from nothing to record level

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By Robert Lambourne
Thursday, January 12, 2017

Disclosures in the monthly statements of account published by the Bank for International Settlements since March 2016 indicate that in the last nine months of 2016 the bank increased substantially its use of gold swaps.

GATA Chairman Murphy to speak at Dollar Vigilante conference in Acapulco

Section: Daily Dispatches

8:38p ET Tuesday, January 10, 2017

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GATA Chairman Bill Murphy will speak at The Dollar Vigilante's second annual internationalization and investment summit in sunny Acapulco, Mexico, on Friday, February 24, a day ahead of the four-day "anarcho-capitalist" Anarchapulco conference there.

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