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 | Michael J. Kosares - USA Gold |
King Ibn Saud’s 35,000 British sovereigns – Gold’s historic undervaluation versus oil  |
| TheWikileaks/Financial Times revelations on significant gold buying interest in the Middle East — notably Iran’s central bank, Jordan’s central bank and Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund — brought to mind the story of KingIbn Saud and his sale of oil concessions to the major oil companies. In payment he received 35,000 British sovereigns — a coin many of you hold in your own sovereign wealth funds.Thursday, April 23, 2020 |
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 | Ronan Manly - Bullion Star |
| New Gold Pool at the BIS Basle, Switzerland: Part 1 |
| “In the Governor’s absence I attended the meeting in Zijlstra’s room in the BIS on the afternoon of Monday, 10th December to continue discussions about a possible gold pool. Emminger, de la Geniere, de Strycker, Leutwiler, Larre and Pohl were present.”
13 December 1979 – Kit McMahon to Gordon Richardson, Bank of England
Introduction
A central bank Gold Pool which many people will be familiar with operated in the gold market between November 1961 and March 1968. That Gold Pool was known as tSaturday, April 18, 2020 |
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 | Mark O'Byrne - gold.ie |
Davos – My Personal Experience of the $100,000 Event, $60 Burgers, Massive Inequality and the Blockchain Revolution  |
| – Davos elite hear warnings of complacency akin to 2007 as economic risks grow
– Toxic mix of infallible belief, arrogance, megalomania and economic ignorance
– Some express concern economies are vulnerable due to imbalances, trade, geo-political tensions– Soros: Trump creating ‘mafia state’ & ‘set on a course towards nuclear war’ with N Korea– Bond bear market, rising interest rates and massive $233 trillion debt are some of the many threats to global stability
– Davos theme explores massive inFriday, January 26, 2018 |
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 | Chris Powell - GATA |
| Pakistan is the closest the NY Times will get to gold-rigging story |
| Cast your bread upon the waters, the Bible says somewhere, and pray that something comes back besides overweight seagulls.
GATA does a lot of casting, usually without result, but you never know when and where someone will pick up on it, and this week a teacher and writer in Pakistan, Taha Ali, did. Ali, who writes for Pakistan's national English-language newspaper, the Express-Tribune, cited GATA in a commentary about bitcoin to explain why the cryptocurrency rose so sharply in price amid an expSunday, January 21, 2018 |
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| Bullion Vault |
| Gold Price Slips But Technical Analysts Target Break Above $1355 Sept High |
| GOLD PRICES slipped Tuesday in London's wholesale market, falling for only the fourth time in 16 trading days as world stock markets, commodities and government bond prices all rose yet again.
The US Dollar extended this week's rally from 3-month lows on the currency market, pushing the Euro down to $1.19205, a 7-session low.
That held the price of wholesale gold investment bars above €1100 per Tuesday, January 9, 2018 |
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| Mark O'Byrne - gold.ie |
| It’s A Wonderful Life Is A Wonderful Lesson To Hold Gold Outside of The Banking System |
| – Christmas film serves as reminder that savings are not guaranteed protection by banks
– Savers are today more exposed to banking risks than ever before
– Gold and silver investment reduce exposure to counterparty risks seen in financial system
– Basket of Christmas goods has climbed since 2016 thanks to 11% climb in gold price
Frank Capra’s 1946 film It’s A Wonderful Life is one that many families will be settling down to watch this Christmas weekend. A story that is ultimately about a suicidWednesday, December 27, 2017 |
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| Chris Powell - GATA |
| Chris Powell: London update on gold market manipulation |
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The slides for this presentation are posted here:
http://gata.org/files/GATA-Powell-Mines&MoneyLondonSlides-11-29-2017.pdf
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SLIDE 1
All you really need to know about gold could have been surmised from a story on the front page of The Wall Street Journal on August 10:
http://www.gata.org/node/17562
SLIDE 2
In that story the newspaper quoted four experts on the gold market, all of them associates of the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee and all of them introduced to the newspaper's repWednesday, November 29, 2017 |
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| Bullion Vault |
| Gold Price Hits 5-Month Aussie High as No.2 Mine Output Forecast to Halve in 40 Years |
| GOLD PRICE gains of 0.5% from last Friday's finish held firm in London trade today as world stock markets recovered more of this week's drop and commodities also rallied after falling from their recent multi-year highs.
Gold held at $1282, some $5 per ounce below Wednesday's attempt at 4-week highs versus the US Dollar.
This week's drop in the Dollar's exchange rate against Euros and Yen edged gFriday, November 17, 2017 |
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| Bullion Vault |
| Gold Price Flat as Half-Billion Da Vinci Sale Sees Stocks and Junk Bonds Rally |
| GOLD PRICES edged back up to $1280 per ounce on Thursday in London as world stock markets rose for the first session in six.
With gold prices trading just $10 per ounce above the 13-week closing low of week-ending Friday 3 November, so-called "junk bond" prices also rallied with equities.
US corporate bonds rated below investment grade gained 0.7% from yesterday's new 7-month low as measured by Friday, November 17, 2017 |
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| Chris Powell - GATA |
| Chris Powell: The essentially prohibited questions about the price of gold |
| Remarks by Chris Powell
Secretary/Treasurer, Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.
New Orleans Investment Conference
Hilton New Orleans Riverside Hotel
Wednesday, October 25, 2017
All you really need to know about gold could have been surmised from a story on the front page of The Wall Street Journal on August 10:
http://www.gata.org/node/17562
http://www.gata.org/files/WallStreetJournalFrontPage-08-11-2017.jpg
In that story the newspaper quoted four experts on the gold market, all of them assocThursday, October 26, 2017 |
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 | Jan Skoyles - GoldCore |
| Gold Up 74 Since Last Market Peak 10 Years Ago |
| – 10 year anniversary of pre-Global Financial Crisis market peak in S&P 500 on October 9th
– Gold up 74% since the last market peak a decade ago; 11% pa in USD, 9.4% pa in EUR and 12.4% pa in GBP
– Precious metal has climbed $736/oz on Oct 9th 2007 to $1278.75 ten-years later
– S&P 500’s 102% climb is thanks to asset-pumping policies by central banks, rather than value
– Gold’s performance is slowly forcing mainstream to re-consider gold
– “Notion of gold as a hedge against serious risk aversionSaturday, October 21, 2017 |
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| Chris Powell - GATA |
| Barclays sued by fund for $850 million in metals market abuse |
| Red Kite Management Ltd., the world's largest metals hedge fund, is suing Barclays for alleged market abuse in the copper market that it claims cost the firm at least $850 million between 2010 and 2013.
The case pits a $2 billion hedge fund against a bank that has been hit by a number of scandals in previous years, including large fines for manipulating Libor, the benchmark for interest rates.
Red Kite, whose co-founder is the former treasurer of the U.K. Conservative Party, alleges that BarcFriday, October 20, 2017 |
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 | Mac Slavo - ShtfPlan |
| Japanese Banks Plan To Launch A Digital Currency Meant To Kill Off Cash |
| Japan’s central bank is currently planning to back a scheme that would permanently kill off cash. Using blockchain technology, the J-Coin is now under development by Japanese bankers.
The J Coin has the blessing of financial regulators as this will literally end Japan’s cash dependency. According to the Financial Times, the currency is meant to launch in time for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics as a way to streamline the country’s financial system. The idea for J-Coin is that it would sit alongside the Wednesday, September 27, 2017 |
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| Mark O'Byrne - gold.ie |
| British People Suddenly Stopped Buying Cars |
| – British people suddenly stopped buying cars
– Massive debt including car loans, very low household savings
– Brexit and decline in sterling and consumer confidence impacts
– New cars being bought on PCP by people who could not normally afford them
– UK car business has ‘exactly the same problems’ as the mortgage market 10 years ago, according to Morgan Stanley
– Bank of England is investigating to make sure UK banks are not overly exposed…
– Prudent British people buying gold with cash, not caTuesday, September 12, 2017 |
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| Sprott Money |
| The LBMA Is A Ploy of the Central Bank Community - Nico Simons |
| This
article is about the way the Central Bank Community manipulates the price of
gold and the role of the LBMA within. We describe some of the signs that the
Central Bank Community manipulate the price of gold and that they are using the
LBMA to reach their goal. Is the manipulation of the gold price a classic case of
Diffusion of responsibility because so many organizations are involved and
avoid taking responsibility?
Manipulation is a joint effort of the Central
Bank Community
The sigWednesday, August 23, 2017 |
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| Sprott Money |
| The LBMA is a ploy of the Central Bank Community |
| This
article is about the way the Central Bank Community manipulates the price of
gold and the role of the LBMA within. We describe some of the signs that the
Central Bank Community manipulate the price of gold and that they are using the
LBMA to reach their goal. Is the manipulation of the gold price a classic case of
Diffusion of responsibility because so many organizations are involved and
avoid taking responsibility?
Manipulation is a joint effort of the Central
Bank Community
The signsWednesday, August 16, 2017 |
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| Graham Summer - Gains Pains & Capital |
| Machine Mania in the Marketplace: How Computers Came to Own the World |
| The following article by David Haggith is from The Great Recession Blog:
With 60% of stocks now being traded by bots that fake each other out in order to create buying opportunities, stock exchanges have lost their connection to the reason markets are created in the first place. The exchanges no longer exist as places for people to buy and sell ownership in a corporation. They exist simply as the neural junctions of a conglomerated machine that plays tricks on itself, and your sole goal is no Wednesday, August 2, 2017 |
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| Ronan Manly - Bullion Star |
| LBMA Gold Vault Data – How low is the London Gold Float |
| The London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) has just released a first update on the quantity of physical gold and silver holdings stored in the ‘LBMA’ London vaulting network. The LBMA press release explaining the move, dated 31 July, can be read here.
This vaulting network, administered by the LBMA, comprises a set of precious metals vaults situated in London that are operated by the Bank of England and 7 commercial vault operators. For simplicity, this set of vaults can be called the LBMA LonWednesday, August 2, 2017 |
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| Ronan Manly - Bullion Star |
| Is the COMEX Rigged |
| The COMEX gold futures market and the London OTC gold market have a joint monopoly on setting the international gold price. This is because these two markets generate the largest ‘gold’ trading volumes and have the highest ‘liquidity’. However, this price setting dominance is despite either of these two markets actually trading physical gold bars. Both markets merely trade different forms of derivatives of gold bars.
Overall, the COMEX (which is owned by the CME Group) is even more dominant thatTuesday, July 18, 2017 |
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 | Jim Willie CB - Hat Trick Letter |
| Enter The NatGas Cartel |
| The King Dollar is mortally wounded. Many notice but the masses seem largely unaware. Since 1971, the Gold Standard has been removed from its anchor position. But since 1973, the Petro-Dollar has taken its place. It has called for crude oil sales led by the Saudis and OPEC to be transacted in USDollar terms, for oil surpluses to be stored in USTreasury Bonds, and for some kickbacks from the Saudis to the USMilitary complex for weapons purchases. Of course, the US is ready willing and able to creFriday, July 7, 2017 |
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