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New book, 'American Default,' examines dollar devaluation, gold confiscation of 1933

Section: Daily Dispatches

2:49p ET Tuesday, May 22, 2018

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Bloomberg News today begins publishing a four-part excerpt from a new book about the U.S. government's devaluation of the dollar, repudiation of debt, and confiscation of monetary gold in 1933.

Bullion Star's gold market charts suggest demand remains strong

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8:50p ET Monday, May 21, 2018

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Bullion Star's latest gold market charts suggest that despite gold's recent decline in U.S. dollars, gold demand remains strong in China, Russia, and Switzerland. Bullion Star's report is headlined "Gold Market Charts -- May 2018" and it's posted here:

J.S. Kim: Gold promotions impede exposure of manipulation

Section: Daily Dispatches

2:20p ET Monday, May 21, 2018

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Promotions for gold and silver that scream that prices are going to explode imminently are hurting efforts to tell the world the truth about the monetary metals and especially about the manipulation of their markets by central banks, J.S. Kim of Smart Knowledge U writes today.

Forget about oil at $80, because the big rally is in forward prices

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By Catherine Ngai, Alex Longley, and Javier Blas
Bloomberg News
Monday, May 21, 2018

Brent crude oil grabbed all the attention after spot prices hit $80 a barrel last week. And yet, almost unnoticed, a perhaps more important rally has occurred in the obscure world of forward prices, with some investors betting the "lower for longer" price mantra is all but over.

Gold frequently disappoints Jim Grant, but does he understand why?

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10:46a ET Saturday, May 19, 2018

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Italy's insurgent parties want debt forgiveness and exit from EU

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5-Star, League Want ECB to Forgive 250 Billion Euros of Italy Debt: Draft

By Gavin Jones
Reuters
Tuesday, May 15, 2018

ROME -- The anti-establishment 5-Star Movement and far-right League plan to ask the European Central Bank to forgive 250 billion euros ($296 billion) of Italian debt, according to a draft of a coalition program the parties are working on.

Who cares about 'peak gold' until there's 'peak paper'?

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'We're Right at Peak Gold': All Major Deposits Have Been Discovered, Declares Goldcorp Chairman

By Gabriel Friedman
National Post, Toronto
Wednesday, May 16, 2018

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