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Jan Nieuwenhuijs: Gold held up well in September against rising real rates

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By Jan Nieuwenhuijs
Gainesville Coins, Lutz, Florida
Tuesday, October 3, 2023

Despite the gold price declining for several months, its performance is extremely strong considering sharply rising real interest rates. To measure gold’s performance against real rates (TIPS yield) I’m introducing the “Gold Price–TIPS Model Tracker” to improve our understanding of how the gold price is set and its future potential.

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Pam and Russ Martens: JPMorgan Chase gets another fine, for 40 million derivative violations

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By Pam and Russ Martens
Wall Street on Parade
Monday, October 2, 2023

In the eyes of Wall Street veterans who are paying close attention to what's going down at the mega banks on Wall Street, federal regulators are making the crime wave at these banks worse, not better. The federal fines for egregious behavior at these banks are getting smaller and more meaningless by the day.

Timing, speakers will make New Orleans conference more valuable than ever

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So consider joining GATA's Bill Murphy and Chris Powell there.

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By Brien Lundin
Publisher, Gold Newsletter
CEO, the New Orleans Investment Conference
Saturday, September 30, 2023

The "world's greatest investment event" is now just a few weeks away.

In other words, from a practical standpoint, this may be your last chance to make plans to attend one of the most valuable and important investment events of recent decades. 

It's vital for you to be there, for two reasons.

U.S. dollar share of world currency reserves stays flat in second quarter, IMF says

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By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss
Reuters
Friday, September 29, 2023

NEW YORK -- The U.S. dollar's share of global currency reserves reported to the International Monetary Fund was 58.9% in the second quarter, unchanged from the first three months of the year, IMF data showed today.

Claims in U.S. dollars rose 0.8% to $6.576 trillion in the second quarter, but were down 1% from a year earlier.

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Chinese gold premiums ease but remain high

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Chinese Gold Demand Robust But Indian Buyers Unimpressed by Price Dip

By Rajendra Jadhav and Deep Kaushik Vakil
Reuters
Friday, September 29, 2023

Physical gold premiums eased slightly in top consumer China this week but remained elevated on high investor demand amid a broadly weaker yuan and economic worries, while lower prices in India failed to boost retail purchases.

Chinese dealers charged premiums of between $80 and $100 an ounce over global spot prices, compared with $60-$130 last week.

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Turk describes the connection between liberty and gold as money

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10:53p Thursday, September 28, 2023

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Interviewed this week by Jon Little of the Silver Degen Club, GoldMoney founder and GATA consultant James Turk reminds us that liberty disappears when government removes gold from the monetary system, confiscates it from the people, and refuses to let them have their own independent money.

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China gold prices plunge the most since 2020, curbing record premium

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By Eddie Spence and Sybilla Gross
Bloomberg News
Thursday, September 28, 2023

Gold in China dropped the most in three years after Beijing permitted more imports, all but closing the gap with international prices that has persisted for weeks.

The precious metal fell 3.8% on the Shanghai Gold Exchange, with losses accelerating toward the end of the trading day. This follows a months-long rally in local prices, which created a record premium to gold outside the country.

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Alasdair Macleod: The end of the road for the dollar

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By Alasdair Macleod
Head of Research, GoldMoney
via Schiff Gold, White Plains, New York
Thursday, September 28, 2023

With the Asian hegemons undoubtedly able to introduce gold standards, where does that leave the dollar?

This article describes just how precarious the fiat dollar's position has become. For now the dollar appears to be buoyed up by rising bond yields. However, as they rise further, portfolio losses for foreign investors are likely to increase, leading to dollar liquidation. 

Maybe Costco should stock gold futures contracts as well

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Costco Is Selling Out of Small Gold Bars 'Within a Few Hours'

By Bill Peters
MarketWatch, New York
Wednesday, September 27, 2023

Costco Wholesale Corp. sells lots of things you wouldn't expect from a big-box retailer: caskets, caviar, six-pound tubs of Nutella. Add to that list 1-ounce bars of gold, which the company said today were selling out within a matter of hours.

China's gold prices surge, hitting a record against the world

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By Sybilla Gross
Bloomberg News
via Yahoo News, Sunnyvale, California
Tuesday, September 26, 2023

China is suddenly full of gold bugs.

It's a flight to safety familiar to students of economic stress.

"With the yuan falling, the property market slumping and capital controls keeping money from leaving the country, investors are buying gold," Bloomberg economists David Qu and Chang Shu wrote in a report.

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