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The very purpose of government gold reserves is currency market rigging
Submitted by admin on Tue, 2026-03-24 10:44 Section: Daily Dispatches10:41a ET Tuesday, March 24, 2026
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Since its founding in 1998 GATA has maintained that governments and central banks use gold for rigging the currency markets -- sometimes openly and sometimes surreptitiously, to deceive investors and other governments and central banks.
The Reserve Bank of Australia used to acknowledge candidly in its annual reports that currency market rigging is the very purpose of gold reserves.
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Ed Steer: China and silver
Submitted by admin on Mon, 2026-03-23 17:55 Section: Daily Dispatches5:55p ET Monday, March 23, 2026
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold (and Silver):
The special Sunday edition of GATA board member Ed Steer's Gold and Silver Digest letter, headlined "China and Silver," is posted in the clear at SilverSeek here:
https://silverseek.com/article/china-silver
CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer
Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.
CPowell@GATA.org
Ed Steer: Gold joins silver on the launch pad
Submitted by admin on Sun, 2026-03-22 15:11 Section: Daily Dispatches3:10p ET Sunday, March 23, 2026
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
The weekend edition of GATA board member Ed Steer's Gold and Silver Digest letter, headlined "Gold Joins Silver on the Launchpad," is posted in the clear at SilverSeek here:
China pulls silver from global markets to meet surging demand
Submitted by admin on Sun, 2026-03-22 13:38 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Yihui Xie and Jack Ryan
Bloomberg News
Friday, March 20, 2026
China's ravenous appetite for silver lifted overseas purchases to an eight-year high at the start of 2026, as importers fed a surge in industrial and investment demand.
Matthew Piepenburg: Gold's biggest fire sale in 43 years highlights perception vs. opportunity
Submitted by admin on Sun, 2026-03-22 09:28 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Matthew Piepenburg
Von Greyerz / Gold Switzerland, Zurich
Sunday, March 22, 2026
If you are new to gold, or if you are a speculator in gold (or even worse, a levered speculator in gold), you are likely asking yourselves what in the "H. E. double toothpicks" just happened to gold?
It lost over 9% in the futures market in a single session and saw its worst week of price declines since February 1983.
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Leading gold and silver groups announce new Sound Money Fellows
Submitted by admin on Fri, 2026-03-20 20:16 Section: Daily DispatchesFrom the Sound Money Defense League
via Money Metals Exchange, Eagle, Idaho
Friday, March 20, 2026
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina -- A leading precious metals dealer and depository has teamed up with the nation's preeminent sound money policy group to announce the next round of the Sound Money Fellowship -- a unique opportunity designed to foster advanced research in the field of sound money.
Lance Roberts: The dollar's plumbing: Conspiracy vs. data
Submitted by admin on Fri, 2026-03-20 19:57 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Lance Roberts
Real Investment Advice, Houston
Friday, March 20, 2026
Every few months a headline appears declaring that the U.S. dollar's reign as the world's reserve currency is over. China is dumping Treasuries. Central banks are hoarding gold. The BRICS are building a new monetary order. The sanctions that froze $300 billion of Russia's reserves in 2022 proved, the argument goes, that dollar-denominated assets are no longer safe. The "risk-free" asset has become a weapon.
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On Money Metals Exchange podcast, GATA secretary explains U.S. rigging of gold market
Submitted by admin on Fri, 2026-03-20 16:25 Section: Daily Dispatches4:29p ET Friday, March 20, 2026
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Lawmakers introduce SILVER Act to de-risk U.S. precious metals market infrastructure
Submitted by admin on Thu, 2026-03-19 16:20 Section: Daily DispatchesFrom Money Metals News Service
Thursday, March 19, 2026
Two members of Congress have introduced the System Integrity through Licensed Vault Expansion and Resilience Act (SILVER Act), a measure aimed at modernizing the nation's precious metals storage framework and reducing systemic risks within U.S. financial markets.
The legislation, filed today by Rep. Russ Fulcher, R-Idaho, and Rep. Mark Harris, R-North Carolina, seeks to address longstanding geographic limitations on approved depositories for precious metals tied to regulated futures markets.
India's central bank ramps up derivatives tool to defend falling rupee
Submitted by admin on Thu, 2026-03-19 10:24 Section: Daily DispatchesIndia must be alone in such currency market intervention, right?
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By Subhadip Sircar and Bhaskar Dutta
Bloomberg News
Thursday, March 19, 2026
India ramped up use of a key tool for defending the rupee to record levels as the currency weakened to an all-time low against the dollar, according to people familiar with the matter.
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