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New York Sun: The dollar lying in wait

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From The New York Sun
Wednesday, June 23, 2021

Paul Krugman is out with his latest column --

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/21/opinion/inflation-economy-biden-fed.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

Craig Hemke: After the smash, rising debt, negative rates still support metals

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By Craig Hemke
Sprott Money, Toronto
Tuesday, June 22, 2021

Once again it was the "escalator up and elevator shaft down" for the Comex digital metals. What does this mean for price moving forward and into the second half of 2021?

First off, we should address what happened and why the precious metals (and most commodities) reacted as violently as they did last week after the June Federal Open Market Committee meeting.

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Fed's cartoons promise 'just the right amount of inflation'

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That's all, folks.

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Federal Reserve Builds Lego Town to Explain Inflatin

By Catarina Saraiva
Bloomberg News
via The Detroit News
Monday, June 21, 2021

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/2021/06/21/federal-reserve-builds-lego-town-explain-inflation/7774701002/

Metals manipulation worse than ever relative to fundamentals, Murphy says

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11:59a ET Tuesday, June 22, 2021

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Ex-Deutsche Bank trader Vorley sentenced to year in prison for spoofing

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By Janan Hanna
Bloomberg News
Monday, June 22, 2021

A former Deutsche Bank trader today was ordered to serve one year and a day in prison for manipulating gold and silver prices with bogus "spoof" trade orders between 2008 and 2013.

James Vorley, who was convicted of fraud in September, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge John J. Tharp Jr. in Chicago. Vorley's former co-worker, Cedric Chanu, is scheduled to be sentenced on June 28.

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Ghana's central bank launches local gold purchase program

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Ghana's central bank launches local gold purchase program

By Paul Jacobs
African Mining Market, Johannesburg
Saturday, June 19, 2021

In its bid to shore up the foreign exchange reserves, the Bank of Ghana has launched a domestic gold purchase program that will enable it to buy gold from local aggregators and mining firms and pay in local currency at the prevailing market price.

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Charles Hugh Smith: Capitalism for the powerless, crony socialism for the powerful

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By Charles Hugh Smith
OfTwoMinds.com
Friday, June 18, 2021

The only dynamic that's even faintly "capitalist" about America's crony-socialism is that the price of political corruption is still a "market."

Maguire, Hemke applaud Wall Street Silver group for cracking derivatives system

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12:20s ET Saturday, June 19, 2021

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

This week's "Live from the Vault" program from Kinesis Money is a discussion between London metals trader Andrew Maguire and Craig Hemke of the TF Metals Report, who examine the strain put on the silver market's derivatives system by the Reddit Wall Street Silver group.

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Ronan Manly: Dubai stands its ground against LBMA's bullying

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11:22p ET Friday, June 18, 2021

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Bullion Star's Ronan Manly reports tonight that the Dubai Multi-Commodities Center is escalating its opposition to the attempt of the London Bullion Market Association to control world standards for gold trading.

Manly notes that the DMCC's executive chairman, Ahmed Sultan Bin Sulayem, lately has struck some hard blows against the LBMA's corruption and hypocrisy.

Manly's report is headlined "In Ongoing Saga, Dubai Stands its Ground with the LBMA" and it's posted at Bullion Star here:

In Craig Hemke's weekly interview, Eric Sprott discusses vaccine risk, gold smash, and Newfoundland

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10:16p ET Friday, June 18, 2021

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Mining entrepreneur Eric Sprott returns today to Sprott Money's weekly market review with Craig Hemke, discussing the danger of Covid-19 vaccines; the smashing of gold this week on the New York Commodities Exchange, apparently to allow bullion banks to cover their short positions; and his enthusiasm for gold exploration projects in Newfoundland. 

The interview is 27 minutes long and can be heard at YouTube here:

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