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The Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee was organized in January 1999 to advocate and undertake litigation against illegal collusion to control the price and supply of gold and related financial securities. The committee arose from essays by Bill Murphy, a financial commentator, and by Chris Powell, a newspaper editor in Connecticut, published at Murphy’s Internet site, www.lemetropolecafe.com.
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By Leslie Hook and Cheng Leng
Financial Times, London
Wednesday, April 30, 2025
Chinese investors are piling into gold funds at a record rate, as Donald Trump's trade war and fears over a U.S. recession and inflation drive a hunt for haven assets.
Inflows into gold exchange traded funds in China total 70 tonnes — or about $7.4 billion -- so far this month, more than double the previous monthly record, according to the World Gold Council, an industry body.
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"Whilst we have seen ETF demand from other regions, China is really in the lead now," said John Reade, senior market strategist at the WGC, adding that Chinese investment demand for the precious metal had risen "dramatically" this month.
The country's share of global gold exchange-traded fund holdings has jumped to 6%, up from 3% at the start of this year, while over the past four weeks Chinese demand accounted for more than half of global gold ETF inflows. ...
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https://www.ft.com/content/08d91dc3-2c4b-4281-8a3c-55350ee550f8
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By Jan Nieuwenhuijs
Money Metals Exchange, Eagle, Idaho
Monday, April 28, 2025
As we are in the final stages of a debt cycle that is causing gold to skyrocket, the question arises: How high can gold go?
Comparing the current bull run to the previous two points to a gold run as high as $16,000 per ounce.
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I typically analyze the gold price through a framework of how gold relates to "credit assets" (national currencies, debt securities, equity, etc.). Simplified, trends in the ratio between gold and credit assets tell us where we are in a debt cycle, and where we are in a debt cycle reveals in what direction the gold price is heading.
In an economic boom, capital flows into credit assets (debt), and the gold price stalls. When markets exhibit excessive confidence in credit, financial bubbles tend to form.
When the bubbles pop, investors flock to gold until a new equilibrium is established in the financial system between money without counterparty risk (gold) and assets with counterparty risk (credit). ...
... For the remainder of the analysis:
https://www.moneymetals.com/news/2025/04/28/can-gold-reach-16000-004021
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By Caitlin McCabe and Joe Wallace
The Wall Street Journal
via MSN, Redmond, Washington
Sunday, April 27, 2025
John Paulson made a vast fortune betting against the U.S. housing market in what was dubbed "the greatest trade ever." And his next act -- a years-long wager on gold -- is finally turning out to be a another great trade.
More than a decade and a half after Paulson went big on gold, the billionaire investor has emerged as one of the winners from the record-setting surge in the price of the precious metal.
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President Trump's trade war and threats to fire the head of the Federal Reserve shook confidence in the dollar and propelled gold prices above $3,500 a troy ounce last week. Gold rose this year even as stocks and bonds floundered.
Rather than cashing out, Paulson is doubling down, tossing in $800 million to buy a big stake in a remote gold mine in a rugged region of southwestern Alaska.
"There's only one reserve that in physical form will protect you against all these things for literally millennia," said Paulson, rattling off a list of scenarios ranging from inflation to the confiscation of assets by governments. ...
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By Emily Herbert, Ian Smith, and Mercedes Ruehl
Financial Times, London
Sunday, April 27, 2025
The Swiss franc has soared to a decade high against the dollar as investors rush for shelter from the global trade turmoil, sparking bets that the country's central bank will have to lower interest rates to zero or below to curb the currency's rise.
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The currency, historically a financial market haven because of the Alpine country's political and economic stability, reached near-record strength against the dollar this week, with the greenback sinking close to SFr 0.80 for the first time since the franc's shock appreciation in 2015.
That has put policymakers in a bind, as they seek to restrain the currency to support the export-heavy economy without provoking a backlash from the United States, which has already threatened Switzerland with high tariffs. ...
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By Ray Ndlovu
Bloomberg News
Sunday, April 27, 2025
Zimbabwe's central bank is again issuing gold coins it scrapped 10 months ago, a step it took to ramp up the bullion stockpile used to back up the local currency, the ZiG.
Minting of the "Mosi-Oa-Tunya" 22-carat coins, named after the iconic Victoria Falls, was scrapped in July, central bank Governor John Mushayavanhu told Bloomberg in an interview at the time.
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The coins are now available again through the nation's lenders at a "time of attractiveness" of bullion, according to Persistence Gwanyanya, a central bank monetary policy committee member. ...
The coins are an "alternative investment option" that can be used to enhance investment portfolios with a "valuable asset," Nedbank said in its client notice. The coins are sold in denominations ranging from one-tenth of an ounce to 1 ounce of gold. ...
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10:11a ET Sunday, April 27, 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.
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So please help us stay in the fight all the way to victory: free and transparent markets in the monetary metals and limited and accountable government.
Our friends at Money Metals Exchange in Eagle, Idaho, support our struggle so much that they have minted a beautiful 1-ounce silver round honoring GATA -- and they want you to have at least one.
On the front of the round is an engraving copied from the GATA painting by Alain Despert, depicting GATA as a modern-day Don Quixote leading a march of gold and silver advocates on the U.S. Treasury Department building in Washington:
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The back of the round shows the torch of liberty breaking the chains of price suppression and recognizing gold and silver as the crucial defenders of liberty:
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You can purchase the GATA commemorative silver round from Money Metals Exchange for around $34 here:
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But if you'd like to help GATA directly, each donation of $250 to GATA will entitle the donor to one of these silver rounds, which GATA will arrange to have shipped to the donor from Money Metals Exchange, which is now the operator of the largest precious metals depository in the United States west of New York, a depository larger than even Fort Knox.
Your gift today will propel GATA's important work, and we'll be very grateful for it.
We just need to remind donors that the metal value of each of the rounds they receive as thanks for their donation must be subtracted from federal tax-deductibility of their contribution to GATA. For example, with the silver round priced at $34, a $250 donation made to GATA would be federally tax-deductible for $216.
Of course these silver rounds are likely to increase in value along with the silver price in the years ahead -- another reason to consider supporting GATA this way.
So please consider making a donation to GATA tonight, especially now that this special 25th anniversary GATA silver round is available to memorialize it.
To donate, please mail a check payable to GATA to:
Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.
c/o Chris Powell, Secretary/Treasurer
7 Villa Louisa Road
Manchester, Conn. 06043-7541 USA
Or visit GATA's internet site here:
Please include your e-mail address so we can thank you without incurring the time and expense of surface mail. And if you're donating $250 or more, please let us know your shipping address so we can speed the silver round on its way to you.
CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer
Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.
[email protected]
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By Adam Sharp
The Daily Reckoning, Baltimore
Friday, April 25, 2025
The U.S. dollar remains the king of currencies. For now, at least.
The greenback's share of global foreign exchange reserves sits around 58%. However, back in 2000 the dollar was even more dominant with a 72% market share.
Meanwhile China's yuan only makes up about 2.2% of global forex reserves, but that's up from 1.1% in 2016. The currency's share of global payments is higher at around 4.7%.
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China's leadership is now making a push to grow the yuan's role as both a reserve currency and in payment. Specifically, the country is seeking to take advantage of recent U.S. bond market volatility.
"The recent soaring volatility in the U.S. Treasury market marks a watershed event," according to Yang Changjiang, a finance professor at a leading Chinese university.
Yang went on to say, via the South China Morning Post:
"We used to consider trade settlement as the key driver of the yuan's internationalisation, but now the focus has shifted to whether the yuan can serve as a safe-haven asset. This is an opportunity that we must seize."
The Chinese yuan as a "safe-haven asset"? That would be a surprising development, but a possibility worth paying attention to. ...
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By Francesco Canepa
Reuters
via Yahoo News, Sunnyvale, California
Friday, April 25, 2025
WASHINGTON -- Former Federal Reserve Governor Kevin Warsh, with whom President Donald Trump is reported to have discussed firing U.S. central bank chief Jerome Powell and installing him in his place, today unleashed a barrage of criticism of the Fed and argued for fundamental changes to how it operates.
In a speech full of long-standing criticisms but short on specifics for what he would do differently, Warsh said he believes in the Fed's "operational independence" but argued it has gone beyond its remit and undermined its claims to independence.
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"Independence is reflexively declared, all too often in my view, when the Fed is criticized," he told a conference in Washington organized by the Group of Thirty, an international body of financiers and academics.
He urged the Fed to stop relying on "stale" government data, subject to revision, to guide its decisions, and on letting the public know policymakers' economic forecasts and where they believe interest rates may be headed. ...
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