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Ed Steer's weekend review posted in the clear at SilverSeek

Section: Daily Dispatches

11:51a ET Sunday, October 7, 2023

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold (and Silver):

The weekend edition of Ed Steer's Gold and Silver Digest, published by GATA board member Ed Steer, is headlined "A COT Report Certainly Worth Framing" and it's posted in the clear at GoldSeek's companion site, SilverSeek, here:

https://silverseek.com/article/cot-report-certainly-worth-framing

Gold premiums in Moscow and Shanghai will bust Comex, Maguire says

Section: Daily Dispatches

11:45p ET Saturday, October 7, 2023

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Kinesis Money's "Live from the Vault" program this week has London metals trader Andrew Maguire asserting that substantial premiums for gold in the Moscow and Shanghai markets continue to draw bullion out of the West, where the gold price is suppressed by official policy, and eventually will bust the New York Commodities Exchange's gold futures business. Maguire adds that speculators now are the big shorts in gold futures and that all major bullion banks have gone long.

Jim Sinclair, the 'Mister Gold' of the United States, dies at 82

Section: Daily Dispatches

8:47p ET Friday, October 6, 2023

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

James E. Sinclair, long the "Mister Gold" of the United States -- an advocate of gold as money, a gold market maker, a gold mining company founder, and an internationally known commenter on the markets -- died of a heart attack today, his business associate, Bill Holter, confirmed to GATA. He was 82.

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Prohibit gold mining? Totalitarians would love that

Section: Daily Dispatches

8:19p ET Friday, October 6, 2023

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Toronto's Glode and Mail today published a long essay by Christopher Pollon, a Vancouver-based journalist who focuses on the mining industry, arguing for prohibiting gold mining on account of the environmental damage it often does.

Toward the end of his essay Pollon acknowledges gold's monetary function but suggests that it could be sustained by digitizing unmined gold from certified reserves, creating another sort of digital currency like bitcoin.

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard: Why the Fed will again have to slash rates to zero and relaunch QE

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
The Telegraph, London
Friday, October 6, 2023

The U.S. economic expansion is being kept afloat only by extreme fiscal stimulus and war-time deficits, an astonishing state of affairs at the top of the cycle.

The federal government is unable to fund this scale of borrowing from U.S. domestic savings, and global creditors are no longer willing to fund it either at bearable cost.

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Pam and Russ Martens: Despite Citibank's record bailout in 2008, 85.5% of its deposits lack FDIC insurance

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Pam and Russ Martens
Wall Street on Parade
Thursday, October 5, 2023

As evidenced by the speech that the chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., Martin Gruenberg, delivered at a conference yesterday, the FDIC is very much aware that both the level of uninsured deposits and the concentration of those uninsured deposits among a handful of mega banks is a serious problem for the U.S. banking system. 

Gruenberg didn't name names, but we will do that in this article.

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Alasdair Macleod: Unwinding the financial system

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Alasdair Macleod
Head of Research, GoldMoney, Toronto
via Schiff Gold, White Plains, New York
Thursday, October 5, 2023

This article looks at the collateral side of financial transactions and some significant problems that are already emerging.

Forex reserves remain Asia's first defense vs. relentless dollar

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Subhadip Sircar and Swati Pandey
Bloomberg News
Wednesday, October 4, 2023

The dollar's recent rally has been relentless. But Asia's central banks have the firepower to limit the fallout.

Policy makers in the region have more than $5.5 trillion of foreign-exchange reserves that they can deploy to shore up their currencies, according to calculations by TD Securities, using data compiled by Bloomberg. The stockpile reached a record high of $5.9 trillion in 2021.

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The world's dollar addiction is hard to kick

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Jon Sindreu
The Wall Street Journal
Wednesday, October 4, 2023

Many central banks and governments want to kick their dollar addiction. They aren't getting very far -- except when forced.

The percentage of official foreign-exchange reserves allocated to U.S. dollars globally was 58.9% in the second quarter of the year, figures published a few days ago by the International Monetary Fund show, broadly unchanged from the 25-year-low first reached in the fourth quarter of 2020.

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