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World's $100 trillion fiscal timebomb keeps ticking

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By Craig Stirling
Bloomberg News
Saturday, October 19, 2024

Even before global finance chiefs fly into Washington over the next few days, they’ve been urged in advance by the International Monetary Fund to tighten their belts.

Two weeks ahead of a potentially era-defining U.S. election, and with the world's recent inflation crisis barely behind it, ministers and central bankers gathering in the nation's capital face intensifying calls to get their fiscal houses in order while they still can.

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Hong Kong will boost gold trading, financial secretary says

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By Jeanny Yu
Bloomberg News
Sunday, October 20, 2024

Hong Kong will roll out several measures with the aim of becoming an international trading center for gold and other commodities, Financial Secretary Paul Chan wrote in his blog today.

Policymakers plan to increase gold inventory facilities and accelerate the development of related businesses, such as trading, insurance and logistics, according to Chan. The city’s government will also expand gold-related derivatives trading to satisfy mortgage and hedging needs. ...

Gold researcher Jan Nieuwenhuijs says central banks hide much about gold

Section: Daily Dispatches

7:30p ET Saturday, October 19, 2024

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Gold researcher Jan Nieuwenhuijs has given Mike Maharrey of Money Metals Exchange an interview about his study of the involvement of central banks with gold and particularly the involvement of the People's Bank of China. Like GATA, Nieuwenhuijs has concluded that there is much about their involvement with gold that central banks don't want the public and the markets to see.

Physical demand is overwhelming silver derivatives, Maguire tells LFTV

Section: Daily Dispatches

11:57a ET Saturday, October 19, 2024

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

London metals trader Andrew Maguire, appearing on Kinesis Money's "Live from the Vault" program with Shane Morand, says physical demand now is overwhelming derivatives trading in silver, just as it has done in gold, and he expects a similarly explosive rise in silver's price soon.

The program is 49 minutes long and can be viewed at YouTube here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb4qn6CZI8Q

Gold and silver bull builds excitement for 50th anniversary New Orleans conference

Section: Daily Dispatches

Join GATA there but act soon.

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By Brien Lundin
Gold Newsletter and New Orleans Investment Conference
Metairie, Louisiana
Thursday, October 3, 2024

We're in the final stages of preparing our agenda for this year's blockbuster 50th anniversary New Orleans Investment Conference, and I'm excited about the surprises we'll have in store for you.

'With silver you can turn your dreams to gold'

Section: Daily Dispatches

7:16p ET Friday, October 18, 2024

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold (and Silver):

Congratulations to journalist Mike Maharrey of Money Metals Exchange for his commentary this morning, "What's Wrong with Silver? Nothing!" --

https://www.gata.org/node/23429

-- which may have been the most brilliantly timed commentary in monetary metals history, what with silver closing today up more than $2 to $33.68.

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Mike Maharrey: What's wrong with silver? Nothing at all!

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By Mike Maharrey
Money Metals Exchange, Eagle, Idaho
Friday, October 18, 2024

What's wrong with silver? 

I hear this question a lot. 

After all, while gold continues to hit new record highs, seemingly on a weekly basis, silver is still well below its all-time high. Meanwhile, the gold-silver ratio remains mired above 80-1, signaling that silver is historically underpriced compared to gold this year.

So what's wrong with silver?

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Ronan Manly: A silent gold revolution is behind the price breakout

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9:23p ET Wednesday, October 16, 2024

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Bullion Star gold researcher Ronan Manly returns tonight with a broad overview of recent developments in gold, noting that the monetary metal's rise this year has been extraordinary and arguing that central banks really don't want their buying to rock the market and so coordinate much of their trading confidentially through the Bank of England and the Bank for International Settlements.

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At BRICS summit, Russia will push to end dollar dominance

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By Gleb Bryanski
Reuters
Wednesday, October 16, 2024

MOSCOW -- Russia is seeking to convince BRICS countries to build an alternative platform for international payments that would be immune to Western sanctions when it hosts the group's leaders at a summit next week.

President Vladimir Putin is keen to build up BRICS -- which has expanded to include Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, and the United Arab Emirates as well as Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa -- as a powerful counterweight to the West in global politics and trade.

Mike Maharrey: Is the inflation monster still hiding under the bed?

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By Mike Maharrey
Money Metals Exchange, Eagle, Idaho
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

The so-called grownups tell us everything is fine. The inflation monster is gone now.

Or is it?

Sure, most people don't believe it's there, but I think the inflation monster is hiding under the bed. The adults in the room say it's not there. But, kiddos, there are signs -- if you look close enough.

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