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Ronan Manly: Can gold-backed ZiG restore confidence and stability in Zimbabwe?

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By Ronan Manly
Bullion Star, Singapore
Tuesday, June 18, 2024

When the words "Zimbabwe" and "currencies" are mentioned in the same sentence, many people will bring to mind the chronic hyperinflation period that Zimbabwe experienced from the early 2000s to 2009, and the infamous 100 trillion Zimbabwean dollar note Zimbabwe's central bank issued in a desperate attempt to cope with that hyperinflation.

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Alasdair Macleod: The physical drivers of gold and silver

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By Alasdair Macleod
GoldMoney, Toronto
Friday, June 14, 2024

Gold and silver steadied this week, at the lower end of their current trading ranges. In European trade this morning, gold was $2,317, up $22, while silver was $29.07, down 8 cents. Comex volumes in gold were low, while silver's were high.

The trading dynamics in the two metals are dissimilar, as our two charts show.

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Jim Rickards: No, the Saudis didn't just kill the dollar

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By James G. Rickards
The Daily Reckoning, Baltimore
Monday, June 17, 2024

There has been a lot of talk over the past several days that Saudi Arabia is ending the petrodollar deal it has had with the United States for 50 years. This story has been highly exaggerated. Today I want to address the misinformation you're seeing and show you what really happened.

Jan Nieuwenhuijs: Thailand joins China in driving gold bull market

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By Jan Nieuwenhuijs
Gainesville Coins, Lutz, Florida
Monday, June 17, 2024

Shedding its long-standing price sensitivity to the price of gold, Thailand is a gold buyer driving the price up, just like China. 

Present changes in the global gold market, in which pricing power is shifting East, could be a precursor to a transformation in the international monetary order. Possibly, trade in the East will settle through a system connecting local central bank digital currencies, while any remaining imbalances are transferred in gold.

Silver market manipulation adversary Ted Butler dies

Section: Daily Dispatches

8:49p ET Sunday, June 16, 2024

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold (and Silver):

Friends confirmed tonight that silver market analyst Ted Butler, who exposed and became the scourge of silver market manipulation for almost three decades, died Saturday.

Butler lived in Florida and wrote about silver market manipulation since 1996. In 2009 he formed Butler Research LLC and began publishing a subscription newsletter.

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Tanzania issues directive to curtail rampant use of U.S. dollar

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By Paul Owere
The Citizen, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania
Sunday, June 16, 2024

Tanzania's finance minister, Mwigulu Nchemba, issued a decisivie directive on June 13 aimed at curbing the widespreadd use the the U.S. dollar within the country in a bid to address a critical challenge to the economy.

Joseph Adinolfi: Reports of the petrodollar system's demise are 'fake news,' and here's why

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By Joseph Adinolfi
Dow Jones News Service
via Morningstar.com, Chicago
Saturday, June 15, 2024

Stories about the collapse of a longstanding "petrodollar" agreement between the United States and Saudi Arabia spread like wildfire on social media this week. But the agreement never existed.

It seemed like big news, and many wondered why the mainstream media had seemingly ignored it. Turns out there was a very good reason.

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Hit by new U.S. sanctions, Russia halts dollar and euro trade on main bourse

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By Alexander Marrow and Mark Trevelyan
Reuters
via Yahoo News, Sunnyvale, California
Wednesday, June 12, 2024

New U.S. sanctions against Russia have forced an immediate suspension of trading in dollars and euros on its leading financial marketplace, the Moscow Exchange.

The exchange and the central bank rushed out statements today -- a public holiday in Russia -- within an hour of Washington announcing a new round of sanctions aimed at cutting the flow of money and goods to sustain Russia's war in Ukraine.

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The world will never be free if it believes official gold data

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11:52p ET Tuesday, June 11, 2024

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Headlines like this have been pummeling the monetary metals sector in recent days: "Gold Is Getting So Expensive That Even China's Central Bank Stopped Buying."

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