Daily Dispatches

9:12a CT Wednesday, October 20, 2021

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Thom Calandra and his market letter, The Calandra Report, have been supporting GATA almost from our start 22 years ago. He is a writer and believer and investor in the monetary metals.

This week, with metals prices showing signs of recovery amid the storm of inflation, Thom is reviviong his special offer to GATA supporters -- a discount on a year's subscription with half the $169 payment being donated to GATA, no strings attached.

4:20p CT Tuesday, October 19, 2021

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Copper and silver, the TF Metals Report's Craig Hemke writes today at Sprott Money, are late to the blastoff of commodity prices, but the big banks trading them are getting long, so silver's day is coming soon. Hemke's analysis is headlined "A Base Case for Silver" and it's posted at Sprott Money here:

https://www.sprottmoney.com/blog/A-Base-Case-for-Silver-Craig-Hemke-October-19-2021

11:42a Tuesday, October 19, 2021

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

In his latest public commentary, "Silver Eruption," silver market analyst Ted Butler asks the key question about the monetary metals markets:

"Try coming up with an alternative explanation to explain the upward trajectory in everything around us -- stocks, bonds, commodities, real estate, and cryptos, and then try to explain silver sitting out the boom."

Gold too, of course.

Butler's commentary is posted at GoldSeek's companion site, SilverSeek, here:

By Robert Kuttner
The American Prospect, Washington
Monday, October 18, 2021

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell sold between $1 million and $5 million worth of stock from his personal account on October 1, 2020, according to disclosure forms reviewed by the Prospect. Powell's sale of shares from a Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund has not been previously reported. This sale occurred right before the Dow Jones Industrial Average suffered a significant drop.