Daily Dispatches

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From Money Metals News Service, Eagle, Idaho
Wednesday, November 20, 2024

The newly released 2025 Sound Money Index has identified Wyoming, South Dakota, and Alaska as the states with the most favorable policies toward constitutional sound money, while Vermont, Maine, and California take the most hostile stances.

Released annually by the Sound Money Defense League and Money Metals Exchange, the Sound Money Index is a comprehensive scorecard evaluating how each U.S. state promotes or impedes sound money policies.

By Sherin Sunny and Sachin Ravikumar
Reuters
Monday, November 18, 2024

Australia's Resolute Mining said today that it would pay $160 million to Mali's government to help resolve a tax dispute after the West African country detained its CEO Terence Holohan and two other employees this month.

Resolute has made an initial payment of $80 million as part of the settlement from existing cash reserves and will make future payments of about $80 million in the coming months from existing liquidity sources, it said in a statement.

11:24p Friday, November 15, 2025

In this week's edition of Kinesis Money's "Live from the Vault" program at YouTube, London metals trader Andrew Maguire says central banks are using the recent "Trump trade" increase in the U.S. dollar index and the corresponding fall in the gold price to obtain real metal at a discount, buying gold futures contracts on the New York Commodities Exchange and turning them into demands for delivery of metal in London, which will force the shorts to cover as already has happened repeatedly this year.