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JPMorganChase to pay $60 million to settle precious metals spoofing lawsuit

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By Jonathan Stempel
Reuters
Friday, November 19, 2021

NEW YORK -- JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N) agreed to pay $60 million to settle class-action litigation by investors who accused the largest U.S. bank of intentionally manipulating prices of precious metals futures and options.

The settlement disclosed today stemmed from sprawling U.S. government investigations into a form of illegal trading in precious metals and U.S. Treasury markets, known as spoofing.

Physical demand will defeat paper gold and silver, GATA chairman says

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10p ET Monday, November 22, 2021

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Amid explosive inflation in most assets, gold and silver are down for the year, GATA Chairman Bill Murphy notes in an interview today with GoldSeek Radio's Chris Waltzek. But, Murphy adds, eventually demand for real metal will overwhelm the derivatives being used to suppress metals prices.

The interview is 6 minutes long and can be found at GoldSeek here:

Hochschild shares drop by a third as Peru seeks to shut mines

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Neil Hume and Gideon Long
Financial Times, London
Monday, November 22, 2021

The market value of Hochschild Mining dropped by almost a third today after Peru moved to close two of its mines on environmental grounds, deepening a clash between the mining industry and the left-leaning government.

Efforts to require royalty payments for mining on U.S. public lands keep failing

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These Democrats Are Helping Companies Take Gold from Public Lands for Free

By Cody Nelson
Mother Jones, San Francisco 
Saturday, November 20, 2021

Amid the recent skirmishes over revising the reconciliation bill, known as the Build Back Better Plan, lawmakers once again skipped a chance to reform the General Mining Law of 1872.

If bitcoin is 'digital gold,' it should be taxed like gold

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By Chad Bayse
The Hill, Washington
Friday, November 19, 2021

As the U.S. government seeks ways to fund its swelling debt and deficits and seemingly ever increasing spending, a puzzling anomaly exists. 

Investors have flocked to bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies yet receive a preferred tax rate on long-term profits as compared to gold bullion. This makes no sense if, as its advocates like to say, bitcoin is "digital gold."

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The rigging at the very core of the gold market is now officially confirmed

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10:59p ET Friday, November 19, 2021

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Bullion Star researcher Ronan Manly surmises tonight that the investment banks that have just agreed to pay a cumulative $152 million to settle the claims of a U.S. class-action lawsuit that they rigged the gold market through the daily London gold price fix made far more money from the rigging than they now are disgorging to settle the case.

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Comex silver shorts are frantically getting long with producers, London trader Maguire says

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9:40p ET Friday, November 19, 2021

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The big shorts in New York Comex silver futures are frantically buying commitments from producers for as much physical metal as is available through next year and into 2022, London metals trader Andrew Maguire tells Kinesis Money's Shane Morand in their bi-weekly "Live from the Vault" interview. Maguire adds that the "Basel 3" banking regulations soon will push monetary metals prices up in the London market.

Maguire's interview with Morand is 29 minutes long and can be viewed at YouTube here:

Alasdair Macleod: Returning to sound money

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By Alasdair Macleod
GoldMoney, Toronto
Thursday, November 18, 2021

With the threat of dollar hyperinflation now becoming a reality, it is time to consider what will be required to stabilise the currency, and by extension the other fiat currencies which regard the dollar as their reserve.

Third London gold market rigging settlement brings total payments to $152 million

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By Dave Simpson, Rachel O'Brien, Dean Seal, Eric Kroh, and Jon Hill
Law360, New York
Saturday, November 13, 2021
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LONDON -- Barclays Bank PLC, Scotiabank, Societe Generale, and the London Gold Market Fixing Ltd. agreed to pay $50 million to end claims that they illegally fixed prices on the gold market, the putative class of gold traders told a New York federal court Friday.

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