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U.S. banks have unrealized losses of $620 billion, FDIC says
Submitted by admin on Mon, 2023-03-13 11:54 Section: Daily Dispatches
By Nicole Goodkind
CNN, New York
Sunday, March 12, 2023
Silicon Valley Bank's collapse last week sent tingles of panic down investors' spines as it highlighted a larger problem across the banking sector: The widening gap between the value large lenders place on the bonds they hold and what they're actually worth on the market.
SVB’s downfall was tied, in part, to the plunge in the value of bonds it acquired during boom times, when it had a lot of customer deposits coming in and needed somewhere to park the cash.
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Pam and Russ Martens: Silicon Valley Bank was a Wall Street IPO pipeline in drag as a U.S.-insured bank
Submitted by admin on Mon, 2023-03-13 11:12 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Pam and Russ Martens
Wall Street on Parade
Monday, March 13, 2023
If you want to genuinely understand why Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) failed and why Jerome Powell’s Fed led the effort yesterday to make sure $150 billion of the bank’s uninsured depositors’ money would be treated as FDIC insured and available today, you need to take a look at how the bank defined itself right up until it blew up on Friday.
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U.S. bails out Silicon Valley and Signature Bank and their uninsured depositors
Submitted by admin on Sun, 2023-03-12 19:17 Section: Daily DispatchesWho was worried about bail-ins?
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SVB, Signature Bank Depositors to Get All Their Money as Fed Moves to Stem Crisis
By Nick Timiraos
The Wall Street Journal
Sunday, March 11, 2023
U.S. regulators took control of a second bank on Sunday and raced to roll out emergency measures to stem potential spillovers from Friday's swift collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, backstopping uninsured depositors and making more funding available to the banking system.
Jay Newman: Why the U.S. dollar has become an at-risk currency
Submitted by admin on Sat, 2023-03-11 23:10 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Jay Newman
New York Post
Saturday, March 11, 2023
https://nypost.com/2023/03/11/why-the-us-dollar-has-become-an-at-risk-currency/
Everywhere you turn there’s chatter about the ongoing US economic sanctions against Russia. The Russian Central Bank, Russian banks, Russian companies, Russian oligarchs -- and anyone caught helping them -- have seen their fortunes entangled since Moscow invaded Ukraine just over a year ago.
BIS gold swaps reflect U.S. move to knock the price and protect dollar, Maguire says
Submitted by admin on Fri, 2023-03-10 21:31 Section: Daily Dispatches9:24p ET Friday, March 10, 2023
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
London metals trader Andrew Maguire tells this week's "Live from the Vault" program from Kinesis Money that the recent 100-tonne increase in gold swaps undertaken by the Bank for International Settlements was a dumping of gold by the United States to protect the dollar.
Two former traders get jail for 'spoofing' monetary metals futures
Submitted by admin on Fri, 2023-03-10 19:12 Section: Daily DispatchesFormer Wall Street Precious Metal Traders Sentenced for Wire Fraud
From the U.S. Department of Justice
Washington, D.C.
Thursday, March 9, 2023
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-wall-street-precious-metal-traders-sentenced-wire-fraud
Pam and Russ Martens: Bank stocks plummet as runs gain momentum at non-traditional banks
Submitted by admin on Fri, 2023-03-10 10:34 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Pam and Russ Martens
Wall Street on Parade
Friday, March 10, 2023
If you keep a diary or news journal, be sure to write down March 9, 2023, as the day that a full-blown bank run began at non-traditional banks in the United States.
Bank depositors were already nervous after federally-insured Silvergate Bank (ticker SI) announced Wednesday evening that it was closing and liquidating. Its publicly traded stock had already lost over 90% of its market value over the prior 12 months.
'Sound money' bills moving forward rapidly in many states
Submitted by admin on Thu, 2023-03-09 20:41 Section: Daily Dispatches8:40p ET Thursday, March 9, 2023
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Writing for Money Metals News Service, Stefan Gleason tonight gives a summary of progress across the United States being made by "sound money" legislation, particularly in regard to eliminating sales and income taxes on the monetary metals and creating state gold reserves.
The summary is headlined "Sound Money Bills Moving Forward Rapidly in Many States" and it's posted at Money Metals here:
Perth Mint faces LBMA review over gold 'doping' charge
Submitted by admin on Thu, 2023-03-09 20:08 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Deep Vakil
Reuters
Thursday, March 9, 2023
The London Bullion Market Association, the top accreditor of gold refiners, said today it was reviewing allegations that Perth Mint had sold "doped" gold to China.
An Australian media report Monday said Perth Mint, the largest processor of newly mined gold, may have to recall a potential $9 billion worth of diluted or "doped" 1-kilogram gold bars sold to top consumer China.
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Alasdair Macleod: Why credit needs a golden anchor
Submitted by admin on Thu, 2023-03-09 12:00 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Alasdair Macleod
GoldMoney, Toronto
Thursday, March 9, 2023
This article examines the relationship between credit and its anchor in value. Today that anchor is fiat currency, which is both parochial and unstable. Historically and in law the anchor has always been gold.
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