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Gold hasn't rallied this much since 1979

Section: Daily Dispatches

By David Uberti and Ben Eisen
The Wall Street Journal
via MSN News, Redmond, Washington
Monday, September 15, 2025

Kenneth Pack invested in gold for the first time in April to shield himself from what he saw as the disorder of the new Trump administration. The chaos trade was just heating up.

Thailand considers tax on gold trades to slow rally in baht

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Suttinee Yuvejwattana
Bloomberg News
via The Business Times, Singapore
Monday, September 15, 2025

BANGKOK -- Thai authorities are reported to be considering a tax on physical gold trading to slow a rally in the nation's currency that has threatened exports and tourism. The baht fell the most in six weeks. 

Stuart Englert: Make the dollar great again

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Stuart Englert
StuartEnglert.Substack.com
Friday, September 12, 2025

World history is littered with the corpses of collapsed and obsolete currencies. The U.S. dollar eventually could be among them without a major monetary reset.

From the Roman denarius to the German mark and South Vietnamese dong to the Soviet ruble, hundreds of currencies have been debased, diluted, demonetized, and discarded along the proverbial path of financial destruction.

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Bill Holter tells LFTV that systemic failure starts with silver

Section: Daily Dispatches

8p ET Saturday, September 13, 2025

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Monetary metals analyst Bill Holter, London metals trader Andrew Maguire's guest this week on Kinesis Money's "Live from the Vault" program, discusses the risk to the world financial system posed by the naked short position in the silver markets.

The program is headlined "Systemic Failure Starts with Silver," is 48 minutes long, and can be found at the Kinesis Money channel at YouTube here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aG8PrrNiq9g

Ghana, Africa's top gold producer, will begin local gold refining drive this year

Section: Daily Dispatches

From Business Insider, New York
Saturday, September 13, 2025

The Ghana Gold Board has announced plans to commence local gold refining and introduce fire assay operations in October.

The development was disclosed by the chief executive officer of the board, Sammy Gyamfi, at the Mining and Minerals Convention in Accra on Tuesday, September 9.

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China proposes rule changes to ease gold imports and exports

Section: Daily Dispatches

From Bloomberg News
via The Times of India, Mumbai
Saturday, September 13, 2025

China is seeking to ease licensing rules for gold imports and exports as the world's largest consumer of the precious metal continues to diversify its reserves away from U.S. dollars.

Adam Sharp: Is gold cooked? No way!

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Adam Sharp
Daily Reckoning, Baltimore
Friday, September 12, 2025

A tricky gold chart is making the rounds on social media.

The Bloomberg chart in question shows that gold just surpassed its 1980 all-time high, if you adjust for CPI (official government inflation).

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Poland's central bank to boost gold reserves to 30% of assets

Section: Daily Dispatches

From Investing.com, Nicosia, Cyprus
Thursday, September 11, 2025

Poland's central bank announced Wednesday plans to increase its gold holdings to 30% of its reserve assets, aiming to strengthen the country's financial security.

The National Bank of Poland said the timing and volume of gold purchases would be determined by market conditions.

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'Paper gold' is over, Frank Giustra tells Colorado metals conference

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Henry Lazenby
The Northern Miner, Toronto
Thursday, September 11, 2025

BEAVER CREEK, Colorado -- Canadian dealmaker Frank Giustra says the age of paper gold is ending as BRICS nations stand up a parallel financial system that routes around the U.S. dollar and prizes deliverable metal.

Swiss boost Trump trade deal with idea for gold refinery in U.S., sources tell Reuters

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Dave Graham
Reuters
via Yahoo News, Sunnyvale, California
Thursday, September 11, 2025

ZURICH -- Switzerland is proposing that its gold industry should build a refinery in the United States or increase its processing capacity there as part of a plan to reduce U.S. trade tariffs, according to two people familiar with the matter.

President Donald Trump on August 7 slapped 39% tariffs on Swiss goods imports due to the U.S. trade deficit with Switzerland, which scrapped its own industrial tariffs at the start of last year.

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