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Fed officials Kaplan and Rosengren quit amid trading scandals

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Dallas Fed President Kaplan to Retire Early on Oct. 8, Citing Trading Disclosure 'Distraction"

By Jeff Cox
CNBC, New York
Monday, September 27, 2021

Dallas Federal Reserve President Robert Kaplan became the second regional central bank leader to resign tnday, saying he was stepping down early following a recent controversy over stock market trades he made.

New Orleans is back to normal so join GATA there next month

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By Brien Lundin
Editor, Gold Newsletter
CEO, the New Orleans Investment Conference
Monday,  September 27, 2021

With this year's New Orleans Investment Conference just around the corner -- Tuesday through Friday, October 19-22 -- the timing couldn't be better for a metals rally.

If you're a serious investor, you need to attend this blockbuster, in-person event.

Ron Paul: The biggest Federal Reserve scandal

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By Ron Paul
Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity, Clute, Texas
Monday, September 27, 2021

Following revelations that Federal Reserve officials made trades in financial assets while the Fed was taking extraordinary efforts to "stimulate" the economy, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell ordered a review of the Fed's ethics rules. 

While these trades appear problematic, they pale in comparison to the biggest Fed scandal -- the Fed's impoverishment of ordinary Americans, enrichment of the elites, and facilitation of government debt and deficits.

Pam and Russ Martens: Dallas Fed president traded like a hedge fund kingpin

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By Pam and Russ Martens
Wall Street on Parade
Monday, September 27, 2021

Dallas Fed President Robert Kaplan wasn't just trading like an aggressive hedge fund kingpin in 2020. He has been doing the same thing for five years at the Dallas Fed while having access to non-public, market-moving information from the Federal Reserve's interest-rate setting Federal Open Market Committee meetings and other confidential communications.

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Chicago Fed president says central bank needs to generate stronger inflation overshoot

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Food, medicine, electricity, gasoline, and other necessities of life apparently aren't expensive enough yet.

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By Matthew Boesler 
Bloomberg News
Monday, September 27, 2021

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-09-27/evans-says-fed-needs-...

CIA considered assassination and kidnapping as retaliation for exposure by Wikileaks

Section: Daily Dispatches

Wikileaks has provided crucial documents revealing the U.S. government's gold price suppression policy:

http://www.gata.org/node/10380

http://www.gata.org/node/10416

http://www.gata.org/node/17081

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By Zach Dorfman, Sean D. Naylor, and Michael Isikoff
Yahoo News, Sunnyvale, California
Sunday, September 26, 2021

Special 'loonie' coin commemorates gold rush and Yukon First Nation history

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By Haley Ritchie
Yukon News, Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada
Sunday, September 26, 2021

Keep an eye on your pocket change -- a Klondike scene will be replacing the loon on three million coins going into circulation this week.

The Royal Canadian Mint has released a special edition loonie that commemorates the 125th anniversary of the Klondike Gold Rush and the history of the Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in and Carcross/Tagish First Nations.

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New Orleans is back to normal so join GATA there next month

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Brien Lundin
Editor, Gold Newsletter
CEO, the New Orleans Investment Conference
Sunday,  September 26, 2021

With this year's New Orleans Investment Conference just around the corner -- Tuesday through Friday, October 19-22 -- the timing couldn't be better for a metals rally.

If you're a serious investor, you need to attend this blockbuster, in-person event.

Ancient gold treasures from Kazakhstan shed light on mysterious Saka people

Section: Daily Dispatches

From BBC News, London
Sunday, September 26, 2021

Astounding gold artifacts belonging to a prehistoric nomadic warrior horse people are going on display in the United Kingdom for the first time.

Many of the treasures were recently discovered in Saka burial mounds in East Kazakhstan -- part of an ancient culture largely unknown outside the central Asian country.

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Trillion-dollar-coin idea is back as wacky way to prevent financial disaster

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By Chris Isidore
CNN, New York
Saturday, September 25, 2021

NEW YORK -- If it's debt ceiling crisis season, then it's also time for the craziest solution to the problem: Getting President Joe Biden to issue a $1 trillion coin.

The idea, which has been around for about a decade, is that the president can issue a $1 trillion "commemorative" coin, deposit it with the Federal Reserve, and allow the government to keep paying its bills.


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