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Russia plans to rezone Europe's largest national park to develop gold mine
Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2019-07-21 23:41 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Alec Luhn
The Telegraph, London
Sunday, July 21, 2019
MOSCOW -- Russian officials are planning to rezone the largest national park in Europe to allow gold mining in a move activists say could put all nature reserves here under threat.
FT's Martin Wolf: Who cares about the prices of useless metals and market rigging?
Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2019-07-21 14:02 Section: Daily DispatchesNot the Financial Times, but central banks disagree.
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2:15p ET Sunday, July 21, 2019
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
At least the Financial Times now has come clean about its hostility to gold -- as well as to free markets and elementary journalism.
GATA secretary reviews gold price suppression policy with Franklin Sanders' The Moneychanger
Submitted by cpowell on Sat, 2019-07-20 09:33 Section: Daily Dispatches9:30a ET Saturday, July 20, 2019
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Ronan Manly: Gold and silver price manipulation is the greatest trick ever pulled
Submitted by cpowell on Fri, 2019-07-19 22:49 Section: Daily Dispatches10:48p ET Friday, July 19, 2019
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Gold and silver market manipulation by governments, central banks, and bullion banks is so well documented now as to be beyond obvious, Bullion Star researcher Ronan Manly writes tonight. But the bigger manipulation, Manly concludes, is the very structure of the monetary metals markets themselves.
For a few paragraphs the Financial Times stops sneering at gold
Submitted by cpowell on Fri, 2019-07-19 10:51 Section: Daily DispatchesTumbling Bond Yields Kindle Investor Demand for Gold
By Henry Sanderson
Financial Times, London
Friday, July 19, 2019
https://www.ft.com/content/1a7b2212-a6fe-11e9-b6ee-3cdf3174eb89
Colleagues used to ask Jim Luke why he had so much faith in gold -- a metal that just sits in portfolios, offering no income.
Barrick and Acacia reach buyout deal, ending standoff
Submitted by cpowell on Fri, 2019-07-19 10:35 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Elena Mazneva and Danielle Bochove
Bloomberg News
Friday, July 19, 2019
For the past two years, Acacia Mining has faced deteriorating relationships with its largest shareholder, Barrick Gold Corp., and the government of Tanzania. Now one of those battles has found a truce.
Russia wants to join EU's bypass of sanctions on Iran
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2019-07-18 13:04 Section: Daily DispatchesKremlin Throws Weight Behind EU Effort to Boost Iran Trade
By Henry Foy
Financial Times, London
Thursday, July 18, 2019
MOSCOW -- Russia has signalled its willingness to join a European Union payments channel designed to circumvent U.S. sanctions banning trade with Iran and has called on Brussels to expand the new mechanism to cover oil exports.
Three soldiers die, five hurt in raid on illegal gold mine in French Guiana
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2019-07-18 11:53 Section: Daily DispatchesFrom Deutsche Welle, Bonn, Germany
Thursday, July 18, 2019
Three French soldiers have died during an operation against illegal gold mining in the South American territory of French Guiana, authorities said today.
The troops were in a tunnel, laying explosives to destroy an underground mining complex, when they were poisoned by noxious fumes, the French Defense Ministry said.
Dollar policy won't change until it changes, Treasury secretary helpfully explains
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2019-07-18 11:41 Section: Daily DispatchesMnuchin Says No Change to U.S. Dollar Policy 'As of Now'
By Saleha Mohsin
Bloomberg News
Thursday, July 18, 2019
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said there is no change in the U.S.'s dollar policy "as of now" but wouldn't rule out a shift in the future.
With Willem Middelkoop essay, central bank forum takes a shine to gold
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2019-07-18 10:55 Section: Daily DispatchesThis essay by gold advocate and longtime GATA supporter Willem Middelkoop, author of the 2014 book "The Big Reset," has top position today at the internet site of the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum in London, an organization catering to government and central bank officials around the world.