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New book, 'American Default,' examines dollar devaluation, gold confiscation of 1933
Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2018-05-22 14:44 Section: Daily Dispatches2:49p 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
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2018-05-21 20:48 Section: Daily Dispatches8:50p 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
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2018-05-21 14:18 Section: Daily Dispatches2:20p 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
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2018-05-21 09:06 Section: Daily DispatchesBy 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.
Eswar Prasad: America, beware -- Dollar supremacy is not forever
Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2018-05-20 11:00 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Eswar Prasad
Financial Times, London
Sunday, May 20, 2018
https://www.ft.com/content/3d4d1190-5931-11e8-806a-808d194ffb75
Gold frequently disappoints Jim Grant, but does he understand why?
Submitted by cpowell on Sat, 2018-05-19 10:24 Section: Daily Dispatches10:46a ET Saturday, May 19, 2018
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Reihan Salam: The downside of the dollar's reserve-currency status
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2018-05-17 20:58 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Reihan Salam
National Review, New York
Thursday, May 17, 2018
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/dollar-reserve-currency-status-dow...
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard: Italy's insurgents enrage Germany and risk ECB payment freeze
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2018-05-17 20:25 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
The Telegraph, London
Thursday, May 17, 2018
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2018/05/17/italys-insurgents-enrage...
Italy's insurgent parties want debt forgiveness and exit from EU
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2018-05-17 09:11 Section: Daily Dispatches5-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'?
Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2018-05-16 19:18 Section: Daily Dispatches'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