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When buying gold or silver, please consider the dealers who support GATA

Section: Daily Dispatches

9:15a ET Saturday, July 23, 2022

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Being the only forms of money without counterparty risk, at least when held directly by their owners, gold and silver are often seen as the foundation of a sound investment portfolio. 

New Orleans conference is back in a big way, so please join GATA there

Section: Daily Dispatches

GATA will be participating in the conference and will receive a generous commission if you register to attend by using the link at the bottom of this dispatch.

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By Brien Lundin
Editor, Gold Newsletter
CEO, New Orleans Investment Conference
Wednesday, July 20, 2022

https://goldnewsletter.com/

As a serious investor, you’re well aware of the unique challenges presented by today’s markets.

Zimbabwe central bank announces gold coin purchase protocol

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Mthandazo Nyoni
NewsDay,Harare, Zimbabwe
Tuesday, July 19, 2022

The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe has released guidelines for the purchase of the Mosi-oa-Tunya gold coin, set to hit the streets next Monday.

The guidelines will prohibit banks from buying the gold coins for their own portfolios, unless permitted by the central bank.

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Patrick Heller: Is gold's price manipulated?

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Patrick Heller
Numismatic News
Stevens Point, Wisconsin
Thursday, July 21, 2022

Is the price of gold, and possibly silver, manipulated? The available evidence answers "yes" as it applies to decades past. The pattern strongly suggests that it is still happening today.

Overall, the manipulation has been to suppress the price of gold, where the suppression of silver's price is one tactic employed to achieve a lower gold price.

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Another financial writer omits intervention when explaining gold's counterintuitive performance

Section: Daily Dispatches

Friday, July 22, 2022

Dan Weil
MarketWatch, New York

Dear Dan (if I may):

In response to your commentary today at MarketWatch on the counterintuitive failure of the gold price to reflect the explosion of inflation worldwide --

https://www.thestreet.com/markets/commodities/gold/gold-stalls-while-inflation-surges-what-gives

Alasdair Macleod: Gold and the coming recession

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Alasdair Macleod
GoldMoney, Toronto
Thursday, July 21, 2022

We are now seeing the initial stages of a currency, credit, and banking crisis develop. Driving it are an inflation of prices, contraction of bank credit, and a pathological fear of recession. One can imagine that the major central banks almost wish a mild recession upon us so that they can keep interest rates suppressed and bond yields low.

When buying gold or silver, consider the dealers who support GATA

Section: Daily Dispatches

10:20p ET Wednesday, July 20, 2022

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Being the only forms of money without counterparty risk, at least when held directly by their owners, gold and silver are often seen as the foundation of a sound investment portfolio. 

New Orleans conference is back in a big way, so join GATA there

Section: Daily Dispatches

GATA will be participating in the conference and will receive a generous commission if you register to attend by using the link at the bottom of this dispatch.

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By Brien Lundin
Editor, Gold Newsletter
CEO, New Orleans Investment Conference
Wednesday, July 20, 2022

https://goldnewsletter.com/

As a serious investor, you’re well aware of the unique challenges presented by today’s markets.

JPMorgan gold trader spoofed so fast he was urged to put ice on his fingers

Section: Daily Dispatches

PMorgan Trader Spoofed So Fast Colleagues Urged Ice on Fingers

By Eddie Spence
Bloomberg News
Tuesday, July 19, 2022

Gregg Smith clicked his computer mouse so rapidly to place and cancel bogus gold and silver orders for Bear Stearns Cos. and later JPMorgan Chase & Co. that his colleagues would joke that he needed to put ice on his fingers to cool them down afterward, or that he must be double-jointed.

Robert Lambourne: BIS gold swaps keep falling sharply, down 60% in six months

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Robert Lambourne
Wednesday, July 20, 2022

Gold swaps undertaken by the Bank for International Settlements, the major gold broker for central banks, fell substantially again in June, this time by 68 tonnes, bringing the bank's total swaps down to 202 tonnes from the 501 tonnes on the bank's books in January, a decline of nearly 60% in six months. 

The bank's June statement of account is posted here:

https://www.bis.org/banking/balsheet/statofacc220630.pdf

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