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Ronan Manly: New 'transparency' at Bank of England and LBMA likely means to help Comex obfuscate
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2020-09-03 20:43 Section: Daily Dispatches8:42p ET Thursday, September 3, 2020
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
By starting to report their gold and silver vault holdings on a one-month instead of a three-month basis, Bullion Star gold researcher Ronan Manly writes today, the Bank of England and London Bullion Market Association are probably not doing any favors for the "transparency" they tout.
Jan Nieuwenhuijus: Gold is the most stable currency
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2020-09-03 12:09 Section: Daily Dispatches12:10p ET Thursday, September 3, 2020
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Voima Gold researcher Jan Nieuwenhuijs today disputes a recent video produced by metals consultancy CPM Group that asserts that gold's value declines over time just as the value of government currencies does.
FT's John Plender: Gold over bonds is a 'no-brainer'
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2020-09-03 11:42 Section: Daily Dispatches11:43a ET Thursday, September 3, 2020
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
If they dig deep enough into it today, readers of the Financial Times will find support for gold at the bottom of senior editor John Plender's column, headlined "Fed's Inflation Shift Is Another Blow to 'Safe' Assets":
https://www.ft.com/content/f7848873-ba42-4166-b063-fe6aa51e1080
The Australian gold rush that never ended
Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2020-09-02 20:07 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Geoff Hiscock
Nikkei Asian Review, Tokyo
Wednesday, September 2, 2020
Pam and Russ Martens: Wall Street's felon banks open their own stock exchange this month
Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2020-09-02 19:53 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Pam and Russ Martens
Wall Street on Parade
Wednesday, September 2, 2020
Members Exchange, a new stock exchange, has announced that it will begin live trading of select stocks on September 21 with a full phase-in on September 29.
Bank of England official says gold price 'tells you precisely nothing'
Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2020-09-02 19:45 Section: Daily DispatchesBut doesn't it at least reveal that gold is more in demand than the British pound or Deutschebank shares?
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Gold Is a Terrible Predictor of Inflation, Bank of England's Vlieghe Says
By Lucy Meakin
Bloomberg News
Wednesday, September 2, 2020
Bank of England policy maker Gertjan Vlieghe warned that it's a "terrible idea" to look at gold prices as a predictor of inflation.
Stefan Gleason: Pension funds start looking to gold to avert disaster
Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2020-09-01 21:38 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Stefan Gleason
Money Metals News Service, Eagle, Idaho
Tuesday, September 1, 2020
Public and private pension plans face a dual crisis.
The first and most obvious threat to pensioners is that defined-benefit vehicles are severely underfunded. By one estimate, pension systems taken as a whole are $638 billion in the red.
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Craig Hemke at Sprott Money: Comex (ab)use of gold EFPs has collapsed
Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2020-09-01 20:42 Section: Daily Dispatches8:40p ET Tuesday, September 1, 2020
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Use of the strange "exchange for physicals" mechanism to settle gold futures contracts on the New York Commodities Exchange has diminished dramatically this year, the TF Metals Report's Craig Hemke writes today at Sprott Money.
Bank of England to publish gold holdings data with one-month lag, not three
Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2020-09-01 20:20 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Andy Bruce
Reuters
Tuesday, September 1, 2020
https://www.reuters.com/article/britain-boe-gold/bank-of-england-to-publ...
LONDON -- The Bank of England said today it will publish data on gold holdings with a one-month lag to improve transparency.
Gold refining veteran dares to say it: 'GATA has it right'
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2020-08-31 12:20 Section: Daily Dispatches12:21p ET Monday, August 31, 2020
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Interviewed today by a consulting company in Singapore, a guy who has spent more than 30 years in the gold refining industry made an encouraging comment about GATA while admitting that it wouldn't do him any good.
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