Daily Dispatches

By Guy Christopher
via Money Metals Exchange, Eagle, Idaho
Tuesday, December 26, 2023

It's hard to say which lie about gold is the biggest whopper.

Many widely held beliefs about gold are lies -- propaganda hammered home to have us believe that the only true measure of wealth is government-issued debt.

Big Lie #1: Gold is a barbarous relic.

Repeated for decades, this misquote of 20th-Century socialist economist John Maynard Keynes perpetuates a lie exploited as an almost biblical prophecy of gold's demise.

By Ted Butler
SilverSeek.com
Friday, December 29, 2023

It seems to me that the forces at play in silver, both working for and against sharply higher prices, show no signs of letting up. However, common sense and logic dictate that such diametrically-opposed forces point to an eventual end to the stalemate -- with the only real question being when. Since these opposing forces have been in play for 40 years, they have taken on a life of their own and the purpose of this review is a brief overview and summary.

From Reuters
Wednesday, December 27, 2023

London's gold price benchmark hit an all-time high of $2,069.40 per troy ounce at an afternoon auction today, surpassing the previous record of $2,067.15 set in August 2020, the London Bullion Market Association said.

"I can think of no clearer demonstration of gold's role as a store of value than the enthusiasm with which investors across the world have turned to the metal during the recent economic and geopolitical turmoils," said LMBA's chief executive officer Ruth Crowell. ...

By Cheng Leng and Sun Yu
Financial Times, London
Monday, December 25, 2023

The influence of China's once-powerful central bank has diminished as Beijing steps up a drive to centralise Communist party control over financial regulation.