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GoldCore's Dave Russell: Is the silver market rigged? 'Silver squeeze' explained

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By Dave Russell
GoldCore, Dublin
Thursday, March 27, 2025

There's a growing online movement -- once again -- calling for silver buyers to unite and challenge what many see as a manipulated market. It’s the #silversqueeze. The proposed date? Monday, March 31.

Two experts say a dollar-devaluing 'Mar-a-Lago Accord' is impossible

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The Sun is Setting on the U.S. Dollar, But What Could Replace It?

By Anthony Rowley
South China Morning Post, Hong Kong
Saturday, March 29, 2025

"How low can the dollar go?" queried the headline of a recent Financial Times article in which Barry Eichengreen, a professor of economics and political science at the University of California at Berkeley noted that the dollar -- "the sun around which the other elements of the post-war international system revolved" -- could be entering a period of fundamental decline.

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Gold's great escape: Chris Powell on the collapse of price suppression

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From Money Metals Exchange, Eagle, Idaho
Saturday, March 29, 2025

In a timely episode of the Money Metals podcast, host Mike Maharrey sat down with veteran journalist and Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee co-founder Chris Powell to discuss gold's historic surge past $3,000 an ounce and what it signals about the global monetary system. 

The conversation offered deep insight into decades-long gold market manipulation, shifting central bank behavior, and the potential ramifications of a long-awaited Fort Knox audit.

Michael Lynch: Comex silver's situation is precarious as largest short struggles to deliver

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Great research by Michael Lynch here, but wouldn't the situation make more sense if the HSBC "customer" he cites is actually the U.S. government, which pledged to suppress the price of silver upon removing the monetary metal from its coinage in 1965? See: https://www.gata.org/node/23297. -- cp

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By Michael Lynch
Michael Lynch on Gold and Silver / Substack
Thursday, March 27, 2025

The naked short on the March silver contract is the HSBC "customer" account.

Indians shift to gold investments as local equities founder

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By Andres Schipani and Arjun Neil Alim
Financial Times, London
via MSN News, Redmond, Washington
Saturday, March 29, 2025

Indians have become heavy investors in gold after a downturn in local equities, with a boom in exchange-traded funds driving purchases as the commodity’s price hits record highs.

Net inflows to gold ETFs in India reached a record Rs37.5bn ($437mn) in January and Rs19.8bn in February as the metal touched all-time highs, according to the Association of Mutual Funds in India.

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James Rickards: Trump and the fate of the dollar

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By James Rickards
The Daily Reckoning, Baltimore
Thursday, March 27, 2025

What is the Mar-a-Lago Accord? And what would a Mar-a-Lago Accord mean for the value of the U.S. dollar?

We begin our analysis with the name itself. Mar-a-Lago Accord is an echo of the three major international currency accords since the original Bretton Woods Agreements reached in 1944.

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Kentucky governor sued for illegally collecting sales taxes on gold and silver

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From the Sound Money Defense League, Eagle, Idaho
Thursday, March 27, 2025

Three Kentucky taxpayers and one of America's largest precious metals dealers today filed a class-action lawsuit against Governor Andrew Beshear, the Commonwealth of Kentucky, and the Kentucky Department of Revenue for their illegal sales tax collections in connection with retail purchases of physical gold and silver.

A mysterious trove of rare coins, hidden from the Nazis, goes to auction

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The money of long-dead kings and vanished sovereignties is still good

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By Melanie Gerlis
Financial Times, London
via MSN News, Redmond, Washington
Thursday, March 27, 2025

Finding buried treasure is a fantasy that has become a reality for the specialist coin auctioneers, Numismatica Ars Classica (NAC). They have been entrusted to sell a single collection of about 15,000 mostly gold and silver coins spanning ancient Greece to 20th-century Britain and valued for insurance at more than $100 million. 

Bloomberg evokes an old fairy tale to mock fair suspicion about the U.S. gold reserve

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6:58p ET Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

To get an idea of the hopeless venality and propagandizing of mainstream U.S. news organizations, check out the commentary posted by Bloomberg News on Monday written by a history professor at the University of Georgia, Stephen Mihm. It's headlined "What's Fueling America's Gold Bar Conspiracy" and can be found at Bloomberg here --

GATA secretary and Peter Grandich discuss gold's manipulated past and liberated future

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5:59p ET Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Your secretary/treasurer spoke today for 15 minutes with GATA's longtime friend, market analyst and gold and silver advocate Peter Grandich, discussing the manipulated past of the monetary metals and their prospects in the free and transparent markets ahead. 

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