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Section: Daily Dispatches

7:52p ET Thursday, December 19, 2024

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Longstanding Western central bank policy of monetary metals price suppression has never been more vulnerable than it is today.

Governments and central banks around the world have been defecting from the policy this year, accumulating gold and silver instead of lending them.

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Miles Franklin's Andy Schectman interviews GoldMoney founder James Turk

Section: Daily Dispatches

2:23p ET Wednesday, December 18, 2024

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GoldMoney founder and monetary metals advocate James Turk is Andy Schectman's guest this week on bullion dealer Miles Franklin's "Little by Little" program. They discuss Turk's long career in international banking and the monetary metals, as well the prospects for a return of constitutional money to the United States.

The program is 58 minutes long and can be viewed at YouTube here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ukq9k82zxQU

Alasdair Macleod: Massive Comex deliveries since Thanksgiving

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Alasdair Macleod
GoldMoney, Toronto
Wednesday, December 18, 2024

It was a week of two halves for gold and silver prices: rising strongly until Thursday when prices were smashed. ...

A feature of this week’s [last week's] trading was levitated futures premiums over spot, particularly noticeable in silver, which before yesterday's price smash represented a premium over overnight rates of as much as 7% annualized for the active February contract. 

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Assad stole what he could but Reuters says he left Syria's gold in central bank's vault

Section: Daily Dispatches

Syria Retains 26 Tons of Gold Reserves After Assad's Fall, Sources Tell Reuters

By Timour Azhari and Libby George
Reuters
Monday, December 16, 2024

DAMASCUS -- The vault of Syria's central bank holds nearly 26 tons of gold, the same amount it had at the start of the country's bloody civil war in 2011, even after the chaotic fall of Bashar al-Assad's despotic regime, four people familiar with the situation told Reuters.

But the country has only a small amount of foreign currency reserves in cash, the same people said.

Barrick Gold threatens to suspend Mali operations over blocked exports

Section: Daily Dispatches

From Reuters
Monday, December 16, 2024

Barrick Gold will suspend operations in Mali if gold shipments continue to be blocked, the company said today as it struggles to reach agreement with authorities on a new mining code in the West African country.

Conditions at the miner's Loulo-Gounkoto complex have "deteriorated significantly," Barrick said, adding that employees have been imprisoned without cause and shipments of bullion have been blocked.

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Indonesia's finance authority says country urgently needs a gold bank

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Nabiila Azzahra
Tempo, Jakarta, Indonesia
Sunday, December 15, 2024

Indonesia's Financial Services Authority (OJK) said the need to establish a gold bank in Indonesia is urgent. A gold bank is a form of bullion business activity that is currently being developed by OJK and the government.

The chief executive of the Supervisory Board of Financing Institutions, Venture Capital Companies, Microfinance Institutions, and Other Financial Services Institutions of OJK, Agusman, explained the urgency of organizing bullion business activities.

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