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Craig Hemke: What might 'monetizing the asset side' mean?

Section: Daily Dispatches

10:35a ET Wednesday, March 5, 2025

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Craig Hemke of the TF Metals Report, writing at Sprott Money, speculates today on what "monetizing the asset side" of the U.S. balance sheet might entail, particularly in regard to gold.

His analysis is headlined "To Monetize the Asset Side" and it's posted at Sprott Money here:

https://www.sprottmoney.com/blog/to-monetize-the-asset-side

Gold payments for oil suspended by Ghana's central bank chief

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Ekow Dontoh, Moses Mozart Dzawu, and Ondiro Oganga
Bloomberg News
Sunday, March 2, 2025

Ghana's new central bank chief has suspended the West African nation's program of paying for oil with gold and said he expects the cedi to stabilize after its volatility of last year.

Clint Siegner: The revenge of the gold bugs

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Clint Siegner
Money Metals Exchange, Eagle, Idaho
Monday, March 3, 2025

There aren't too many upsides to the widespread loss in confidence currently underway. It would be far better if major institutions were trustworthy, competent, and efficiently run. But fixing these institutions requires recognition of the problems.

The people who spent all of their time marginalizing gold bugs as nutjobs and conspiracy theorists are starting to find themselves out on the fringe.

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Deutsche Bank sees risk of U.S. dollar losing safe-haven status

Section: Daily Dispatches

From Bloomberg News
Tuesday, March 3, 2025

The U.S. dollar may lose its traditional safe-haven status as global markets adjust to a new geopolitical order, according to Deutsche Bank AG. 

"We do not write this lightly. But the speed and scale of global shifts are so rapid that this needs to be acknowledged as a possibility," said George Saravelos, the bank's global head of FX strategy, in a note to clients. "It is hard to overestimate the scale of change taking place in global economic and geopolitical relations in a matter of days."

An appeal to Canada on behalf of a dirty business: individual liberty

Section: Daily Dispatches

Illustrations for this presentation are posted here:

https://www.gata.org/sites/default/files/Powell%20GATA%20Toronto%202025.pdf

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Illustration 1 -- Introduction

Remarks by Chris Powell
Secretary/Treasurer, Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.
Laura Stein / GATA Reception and Dinner
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Monday, March 3, 2025

Ladies and gentlemen and everyone else.

Please help GATA stay in the fight until victory

Section: Daily Dispatches

2:50p ET Tuesday, March 4, 2025

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

We are so close to victory now. Gold is all over mainstream financial news organizations now even as they strive not to expose the real reasons for the monetary metal's spectacular rise: the collapse of the derivatives-based gold price suppression system.

Gold price suppression is almost a respectable topic now, even if GATA is still not respectable enough to get mentioned by mainstream financial news organizations even as we pummel them every day with evidence of their dishonesty.

Jim Rickards: Gold's historic rally

Section: Daily Dispatches

By James Rickards
The Daily Reckoning, Baltimore
Friday, February 28, 2025

Even casual observers know that gold has been trading near all-time highs lately. The dollar price of gold has been trading around $2,955 per ounce, quite close to the all-time closing high and near the recent intraday high just below $3,000 per ounce. Since November 1, 2022, gold has rallied from $1,650 per ounce to $2,955 per ounce, an 80% gain in 28 months.

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Toronto exchange's mining dominance under threat as explorers exit

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Jacob Lorinc
Bloomberg News
via Yahoo News, Sunnyvale, California
Monday, March 3, 2025

Toronto's claim as the top mining hub is under threat as exploration companies leave Canada and listings dwindle on the nation's resource-heavy stock exchange.

Canada's once-thriving mining industry is facing challenges to its decades-old model, in which explorers and developers woo investors with promises of mining breakthroughs and established producers feed on their success, swallowing them in lucrative takeovers. 

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Citigroup erroneously credited client account with $81 trillion in 'near miss'

Section: Daily Dispatches

Stephen Gandel and Joshua Franklin
Financial Times, London
Friday, February 28, 2025

Citigroup credited a client's account with $81 trillion when it meant to send only $280, an error that could hinder the bank’s attempt to persuade regulators that it has fixed long-standing operational issues.

The erroneous internal transfer, which occurred last April and has not been previously reported, was missed by both a payments employee and a second official assigned to check the transaction before it was approved to be processed at the start of business the following day.

Dave Kranzler: March silver contract deliveries could get interesting

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Dave Kranzler
Mining Stock Journal
Thursday, Febraruy 27, 2025

Right now there's 109 million ounces worth of Comex March silver contracts standing for delivery. This is 90% of the registered inventory of silver in the vaults and 27% of the total amount of silver in Comex vaults. 

Those are big numbers. But it's irrelevant if the entities taking delivery do not remove their silver from Comex vaults. 

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