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Alasdair Macleod: The upside-down world of currency

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By Alasdair Macleod
GoldMoney, Toronto
Thursday, November 17, 2022

The gap between fiat currency values and legal money, which is gold, has widened so that dollars retain only 2% of their pre-1970s value, and for sterling it is as little as 1%. Yet it is commonly averred that currency is money, and gold is irrelevant.

Brien Lundin: Get every word from 'the world's greatest investment event'

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By Brien Lundin
Gold Newsletter / Golden Opportunities
Wednesday, November 16, 2022

You could call it the speculator's Nirvana.

Money Magazine dubbed it "the greatest investment show on Earth." Barron's said it was "an investment bazaar."

They were referring to the New Orleans Investment Conference, where fortunes have been made year after year for nearly a half century.

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New York Sun: FTX and the Age of Fiat Money

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From the New York Sun
Thursday, November 17, 2022

The best story so far on the collapse of FTX, at least in our view, is A.R. Hoffman’s dispatch in the Sun that marks the drama as a feature of our national experiment in fiat money. After all, if America had a sound currency, one anchored in the classical monetary specie of gold or silver, we wouldn’t have so many young geniuses out there hawking crypto coins and tokens as units of account and mediums of exchange. 

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Craig Hemke at Sprott Money: Comex prices into year-end

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By Craig Hemke
Sprott Money, Toronto
Tuesday, November 15, 2022

The year 2022 hasn't played out as expected, but as the year draws to a close, the clouds are parting and a vision for 2023 comes into focus.

What did we know about 2022 when the year began? 

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Vermont, New Jersey, Maine among the worst states on sound money

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From Money Metals News Service
Tuesday, November 15, 2022

Residents of Wyoming and South Dakota live in the most pro-sound money states in the United States, according to the 2023 Sound Money Index released today.

Money Metals Exchange, a national precious metals dealer, depository, and collateral lending institution, has again teamed up with the Sound Money Defense League, an influential public policy group, to produce this authoritative ranking.

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Dan Oliver: Collapse of FTX portends the collapse of all the bubbles

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1:27p ET Tuesday, November 15, 2022

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Mirmikan Capital's Dan Oliver today published a brilliant review of the rise and fall of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, showing how it is a metaphor for all the big financial frauds that preceded it from centuries ago to the present, where even the most imaginary assets can attract and then vaporize enormous wealth.

Central banks to shift away from 'jumbo' interest rate rises as outlook darkens

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By Valentina Romei
Financial Times, London
Tuesday, November 15, 2022

Central bankers are to shift toward a more gradual monetary tightening, economists predict, as recent "jumbo" rate moves show signs of taming inflation and officials acknowledge the growing threat of recession.

After central banks' last meetings and a cooling in U.S. inflation to 7.7% in October from 8.2% in September, markets are pricing in a greater probability of 50 basis point rather than 75bp rises in the banks’ next announcements, and smaller rate rises continuing into next year.

Bankrupt crypto storage firm FTX hit by mysterious outflow of about $662 million

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By Suvashree Ghosh
Bloomberg News
Saturday, November 12, 2022

Sam Bankman-Fried’s bankrupt digital-asset exchange FTX was hit by a mysterious outflow of about $662 million in tokens in the past 24 hours, the latest twist in one of the darkest periods for the crypto industry.

Customers still coming to terms with the platform's Friday plunge into Chapter 11 proceedings were subsequently confronted with what the general counsel of its U.S. arm, Ryne Miller, described as "abnormalities with wallet movements."

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Stefan Gleason: Crypto carnage exposes untold risks of unbacked digital wealth

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By Stefan Gleason
Money Metals Exchange, Eagle, Idaho
Thursday, November 10, 2022

Cryptocurrency markets were rattled this week by the abrupt collapse of FTX, a major exchange.

Facing a wave of customer requests for withdrawals, FTX announced it was experiencing "liquidity" issues. Rival firm Binance initially offered to help facilitate an emergency rescue of FTX.

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