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Financial letter editor Jay Taylor interviews GATA secretary

Section: Daily Dispatches

11:27a ET Wednesday, July 20, 2022

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Your secretary/treasurer discussed GATA's work yesterday with Jay Taylor, editor of J. Taylor's Gold, Energy, and Tech Stocks letter, on his "Turning Hard Times Into Good Times" internet radio program. The main point of the discussion was that gold market manipulation is no mere "conspiracy theory" but longstanding Western government policy extensively documented in government archives and statements and memoirs by central bankers.

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

Section: Daily Dispatches

4:23p ET Tuesday, July 19, 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. 

Turkey looks to ditch dollar in payments for Russian energy

Section: Daily Dispatches

But who really wants Turkish lira?

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By Firat Kozok
Bloomberg News
Tuesday, July 19, 2022

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will discuss paying for Russian energy imports with currencies other than the U.S. dollar when he meets his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, in Tehran today, according to Turkish officials familiar with the matter.

Monetary reform, gold remonetization addressed as Bullion Star interviews fund manager Sean Fieler

Section: Daily Dispatches

8:14p ET Monday, July 18, 2022

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Bullion Star researcher Ronan Manly today interviews fund manager and gold and sound-money advocate Sean Fieler about the prospects for monetary reform in the United States, including the remonetization of gold and auditing the Federal Reserve and making it more accountable to limited government and democracy. 

A big part of the discussion involves gold market manipulation and GATA's efforts to expose it.

The interview is 35 minutes long and can be seen at YouTube here:

Spoofing gold market was common at Bear Stearns, former trader testifies

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Eddie Spence
Bloomberg News
Monday, July 18, 2022

At Bear Stearns Cos., before the bank was acquired by JPMorgan Chase & Co. in 2008, manipulating the gold futures market with bogus spoof orders was "common practice," especially for its top trader, Gregg Smith, a former colleague told jurors in Chicago.

"It was pretty widespread" on the precious-metals trading desk, said Corey Flaum, a gold and silver trader who was later fired for spoofing and reached a criminal plea agreement to cooperate with prosecutors. 

Ted Butler: After epic selloffs, epic rises ahead for gold and silver

Section: Daily Dispatches

7p ET Monday, July 18, 2022

Dear Friend of GATA and Gild (and Silver):

Silver market analyst Ted Butler explains tonight why he thinks that the "epic" smashdown of gold and silver prices in recent months has been engineered to allow the bullion banks to jettison their short positions for good, clearing the way for epic price increases. His analysis is headlined "Epic Silver Selloffs" and it's posted at GoldSeek's companion site, SilverSeek, here:

https://silverseek.com/article/epic-silver-selloffs

Has the U.S. just stripped Ukraine of its gold reserves?

Section: Daily Dispatches

7:32p ET Sunday, July 17, 2022

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Eight years ago as Russia seized Crimea from Ukraine, Ukraine's gold appeared to have been hastily shipped to the United States. Nobody in authority would deny it:

https://gata.org/node/14744

Today the Ukrainian central bank acknowledged that $12 billion of its gold reserves recently was sold under pressure of the war with Russia that began this year:

https://www.gata.org/node/22063

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

Section: Daily Dispatches

6:24p ET Sunday, July 17, 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. 

A new gold rush pits money and jobs against California's environment

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Scott Wilson
Washington Post
Sunday, July 17, 2022

GRASS VALLEY, Calif. — Where the Sacramento Valley steepens into the Sierra Nevada, Susan Love found a home with big windows and pine-forest views. It was the house she shared happily with her husband before his death.

The surroundings, though, are changing.

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