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James Rickards: Trump and the fate of the dollar

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By James Rickards
The Daily Reckoning, Baltimore
Thursday, March 27, 2025

What is the Mar-a-Lago Accord? And what would a Mar-a-Lago Accord mean for the value of the U.S. dollar?

We begin our analysis with the name itself. Mar-a-Lago Accord is an echo of the three major international currency accords since the original Bretton Woods Agreements reached in 1944.

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Kentucky governor sued for illegally collecting sales taxes on gold and silver

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From the Sound Money Defense League, Eagle, Idaho
Thursday, March 27, 2025

Three Kentucky taxpayers and one of America's largest precious metals dealers today filed a class-action lawsuit against Governor Andrew Beshear, the Commonwealth of Kentucky, and the Kentucky Department of Revenue for their illegal sales tax collections in connection with retail purchases of physical gold and silver.

A mysterious trove of rare coins, hidden from the Nazis, goes to auction

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The money of long-dead kings and vanished sovereignties is still good

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By Melanie Gerlis
Financial Times, London
via MSN News, Redmond, Washington
Thursday, March 27, 2025

Finding buried treasure is a fantasy that has become a reality for the specialist coin auctioneers, Numismatica Ars Classica (NAC). They have been entrusted to sell a single collection of about 15,000 mostly gold and silver coins spanning ancient Greece to 20th-century Britain and valued for insurance at more than $100 million. 

Bloomberg evokes an old fairy tale to mock fair suspicion about the U.S. gold reserve

Section: Daily Dispatches

6:58p ET Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

To get an idea of the hopeless venality and propagandizing of mainstream U.S. news organizations, check out the commentary posted by Bloomberg News on Monday written by a history professor at the University of Georgia, Stephen Mihm. It's headlined "What's Fueling America's Gold Bar Conspiracy" and can be found at Bloomberg here --

GATA secretary and Peter Grandich discuss gold's manipulated past and liberated future

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5:59p ET Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Your secretary/treasurer spoke today for 15 minutes with GATA's longtime friend, market analyst and gold and silver advocate Peter Grandich, discussing the manipulated past of the monetary metals and their prospects in the free and transparent markets ahead. 

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Indian government withdraws gold monetization scheme

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By Harsh Kumar
Business Standard, New Delhi
Tuesday, March 25, 2025

The Union Finance Ministry today announced the discontinuation of the medium- and long-term government deposit components of the Gold Monetization Scheme from March 26. 
 
This decision comes after a comprehensive review of the scheme's performance and evolving market conditions, according to the finance ministry statement.

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Brien Lundin: Gold is taking a break, which may spell opportunity

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By Brien Lundin
Gold Newsletter / Golden Opportunities
Metairie, Louisiana
Monday, March 24, 2025

Flash: Gold has dropped over $40 in price since last week’s high.

The gold bug reaction? A collective yawn -- because a $40 loss in gold ain't what it used to be.
 
I remember well, at the bottom of both the metals and miners in 2000, where that would have represented a 15% crash. Even as recently as the beginning of last year, it would have represented a 2% decline, instead of barely over 1% today.

Interviewed by Mike Maharrey, G. Edward Griffin exposes the Federal Reserve

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By Mike Maharrey
Money Metals Exchange, Eagle, Idaho
Friday, March 21, 2025

In a riveting and candid conversation on the Money Metals Podcast, host Mike Maharrey sat down with G. Edward Griffin, the prolific author best known for "The Creature from Jekyll Island," a book that has shaped modern understandings of the Federal Reserve and its shadowy origins. 

Robert Lambourne: After hedge funds and Treasury's dealers, who's left to buy U.S. debt?

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By Robert Lambourne
Saturday, March 22, 2025

The U.S. Treasuries market today is evoking a maxed-out credit card.

The end of “quantitative tightening” by the Federal Reserve seems imminent, apparently to be rapidly replaced by another round of “quantitative easing.”

Gold revaluation is a process, not an event, Maguire tells LFTV

Section: Daily Dispatches

8:22a ET Saturday, March 22, 2025

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold (and Silver):

On this week's edition of Kinesis Money's "Live from the Vault" program, London metals trader Andrew Maguire says the Trump administration's plans for sweeping tariffs on imports into the United States prompted the Federal Reserve to begin repatriating its leased and swapped gold but this ran into demand for real metal by central banks and then into demand by investment houses.

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