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Dollar is increasingly overvalued as deficit widens, international finance institute says

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Chris Anstey
Bloomberg News
Thursday, March 4, 2021

The dollar has become increasingly overvalued thanks to a swelling U.S. current-account deficit, according to the Institute of International Finance.

China's yuan is the mirror image, becoming increasingly undervalued, the IIF found in a periodic assessment of exchange-rate misalignments.

Stefan Gleason: The Great Reset is coming for the currency

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Stefan Gleason
Money Metals Exchange, Eagle, Idaho
Tuesday, March 3, 2021

As the Great Reset proceeds from globalist think tanks and technology billionaires to allied media elites, governments, schools, and Woke corporations, what will be "reset" next?

Gold and silver went into backwardation today, a bullish sign, Turk tells KWN

Section: Daily Dispatches

8:25p ET Wednesday, March 3, 2021

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GoldMoney founder and GATA consultant James Turk tells King World News today that gold and silver prices went into backwardation today, signifying that low prices brought out buyers of real metal, a bullish sign. Turk says it seems that weak hands trading the metals on margin in the futures markets have been washed out.

Poland keeps rates on hold in defiance of accelerating inflation

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Maciej Onoszko
Bloomberg News
Wednesday, March 3, 2021

Poland's central bank kept interest rates unchanged, looking past a spike in inflation to the highest in a decade as new Covid-19 restrictions threaten to stifle economic growth.

Clint Siegner: Bullion banks sell even more silver, but do they have it?

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Clint Siegner
Money Metals Exchange, Eagle, Idaho
Monday, March 1, 2021

Anyone with a naked short in the silver futures market risks getting squeezed by physical buying. Demand for delivery of Comex silver bars is rising, even as the paper price of the metal fell more than 4.5% last week.

Pam and Russ Martens: A year later, we have no idea who got $9 trillion from the Fed

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Pam and Russ Martens
Wall Street on Parade
Monday, March 1, 2021

Beginning on September 17, 2019 -- months before there was any report of a Covid-19 case anywhere in the world -- the Federal Reserve turned on its money spigot to the trading houses on Wall Street.

USAGold's 'News & Views' letter for March

Section: Daily Dispatches

10:41a ET Monday, March 1, 2021

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

USAGold's "News & Views" letter for March emphasizes the hugely disproportionate amount of money creation lately and notes that gold bull markets in the past have begun with surges in the money supply.

The letter is posted in the clear at USAGold here:

https://www.usagold.com/nv1027march2021/

Food prices are soaring faster than inflation and incomes

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Emily Cadman, Deena Shanker, Leslie Patton, and Charlie Wells
Bloomberg News
Sunday, February 28, 2021

Global food prices are going up, and the timing couldn’t be worse.

In Indonesia, tofu is 30% more expensive than it was in December. In Brazil, the price of local mainstay turtle beans is up 54% compared to last January.

Central banks will happily ignore warnings about inflation

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Balazs Koranyi, Howard Schneider, Leika Kihara
Reuters
Monday, March 1, 2021

FRANKFURT, Germany -- The biggest central banks will happily live with higher inflation, and investors now aggressively betting on a quicker end to monetary stimulus are all but certain to be proved wrong.

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