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Gold market manipulation hasn't gone away and GATA still needs your help
Submitted by admin on Mon, 2026-06-29 00:27 Section: Daily Dispatches10:55a ET Wednesday, June 24, 2026
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold (and Silver):
The last year has been dramatic for the monetary metals. Sharp increases in price, indicative of short squeezes, have been offset by counterintuitive downward smashes even as a major war has broken out while another has intensified. News reports and analysis have emphasized the role of some central banks as major longs in the gold and silver markets but not the continuing role of other central banks on the short side in defense of their currencies and particularly the U.S. dollar.
The U.S. Mint gold coin that broke the circle
Submitted by admin on Sun, 2026-06-28 12:20 Section: Daily DispatchesFrom Coin Week, Silver Springs, Florida
Sunday, June 28, 2026
The 1915-S Panama-Pacific $50 Octagonal gold coin did something no other legal-tender United States coin had done.
It broke the circle.
For more than a century this massive gold commemorative stood alone as the only non-round legal-tender coin ever issued by the United States Mint. That distinction now feels more important than ever.
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Ed Steer: The Big 8 shorts get stuffed again
Submitted by admin on Sun, 2026-06-28 09:31 Section: Daily Dispatches9:31a ET Sunday, June 28, 2026
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
The weekend edition of GATA board member Ed Steer's Gold and Silver Digest is headlined "The Big 8 Shorts Get Stuffed Again" and is posted in the clear at GoldSeek's companion site, SilverSeek, here:
https://silverseek.com/article/big-8-shorts-get-stuffed-again
Gold market manipulation hasn't gone away and GATA still needs your help
Submitted by admin on Sat, 2026-06-27 20:51 Section: Daily Dispatches10:55a ET Wednesday, June 24, 2026
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold (and Silver):
The last year has been dramatic for the monetary metals. Sharp increases in price, indicative of short squeezes, have been offset by counterintuitive downward smashes even as a major war has broken out while another has intensified. News reports and analysis have emphasized the role of some central banks as major longs in the gold and silver markets but not the continuing role of other central banks on the short side in defense of their currencies and particularly the U.S. dollar.
Bolivia ends 15-year dollar peg in attempt to restore economic stability
Submitted by admin on Sat, 2026-06-27 18:49 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Monica Machicao
Reuters
Saturday, June 27, 2026
LA PAZ -- Bolivia will adopt a flexible exchange-rate system, the government said on Friday, effectively devaluing the currency by ending a 15-year dollar peg in a major policy shift aimed at restoring economic stability.
Bolivia's central bank will oversee the shift, as the government aims to "strengthen macroeconomic stability, preserve external competitiveness and contribute to the balance of payments equilibrium," the economy ministry said in a decree.
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I inherited gold and silver worth tens of thousands -- but with no receipts, how do I find what it's worth?
Submitted by admin on Sat, 2026-06-27 12:45 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Laura Grande
Associated Press Moneywise
Saturday, June 27, 2026
Andrea knew her late aunt collected coins, but she never imagined she'd inherit a box full of gold and silver bullion.
At 51, Andrea has spent much of her adult life living paycheck to paycheck. She carries credit card debt, has only a modest emergency fund and hasn't accumulated much wealth outside of her home.
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Stuart Englert: Avoid the noise, embrace the trend
Submitted by admin on Sat, 2026-06-27 11:15 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Stuart Englert
stuartenglert.substack.com
Friday, June 26, 2026
My apologizes to my subscribers and readers for being on extended writing hiatus. Over the last four months I've spent more than 500 hours in the greenhouse and garden, germinating vegetable seeds, tending the seedlings, and planting them on a 3,500-foot backyard plot along the Harpeth River in middle Tennessee.
Who profits from Africa's gold?
Submitted by admin on Sat, 2026-06-27 11:05 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Palumi Salako
Al Jazeera, Doha, Qatar
Saturday, June 27, 2026
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- Mansa Musa, the 14th-century emperor of the Malian Empire, often comes to mind whenever African gold enters the conversation. Renowned for his immense wealth, he is often described as the richest man in history, largely due to the vast gold resources of his empire.
Jan Skoyles at GoldCore: Who is buying your panic?
Submitted by admin on Sat, 2026-06-27 10:53 Section: Daily Dispatches10:50a ET Saturday, June 27, 2026
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
GoldCore's Jan Skoyles this week urged gold sellers to contemplate the matter of "who is buying your panic?" That is, she says, sales by leveraged Western funds frightened by the prospect of higher interest rates are just the other side of China's importing real metal at the fastest pace in two years.
She adds that nothing has changed about the case for holding real assets.
Her commentary is 7 minutes long and can be viewed at YouTube here:
Gold market manipulation hasn't gone away and GATA still needs your help
Submitted by admin on Fri, 2026-06-26 21:07 Section: Daily Dispatches10:55a ET Wednesday, June 24, 2026
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold (and Silver):
The last year has been dramatic for the monetary metals. Sharp increases in price, indicative of short squeezes, have been offset by counterintuitive downward smashes even as a major war has broken out while another has intensified. News reports and analysis have emphasized the role of some central banks as major longs in the gold and silver markets but not the continuing role of other central banks on the short side in defense of their currencies and particularly the U.S. dollar.
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