Daily Dispatches

By Martin Arnold
Financial Times, London
Thursday, July 22, 2021

The European Central Bank will keep buying bonds and maintain its deeply negative interest rates in an attempt to shift the eurozone economy out of its persistent pattern of sluggish inflation, its policymakers decided today.

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Good Mining Exploration Resumes Search
for Gold at Golden Target Project in Ontario

9:47p ET Wednesday, July 21, 2021

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Historian Lance Geiger, "The History Guy" at YouTube, today presents a fascinating account of the world's first great silver mine, Potosi in Spanish-ruled Peru. 

Potosi silver, Geiger relates, created the world's first international currency, funded and destroyed empires, and, of course, imposed virtual slavery on the nearby inhabitants, who had to work in the mine.

By Pam and Russ Martens
Wall Street on Parade
Tuesday, July 20, 2021

Yesterday the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 725.8 points out of fear that there will be renewed business restrictions to deal with spiking COVID cases in all 50 states in the U.S.

On July 8 the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention jointly released an unequivocal statement on the COVID-19 vaccines that are in use in the United States. 

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From Reuters
Monday, July 19, 2021

LONDON -- The British government reiterated today that it recognises opposition figure Juan Guaido as Venezuela's president, a move aimed at quashing a bid by the Nicolas Maduro-backed Venezuelan central bank to repatriate nearly $1 billion of its gold stored in London.

Legal teams representing Maduro and Guaido will be at the UK Supreme Court tnday in the latest stage of a long-running tug-of-war over what amounts to about 15% of Venezuela's foreign currency reserves.

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