Daily Dispatches

4:39p ET Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The Sound Money Defense League's executive director, JP Cortez, is interviewed today by Miles Franklin Media's Andy Schectman about the organization's work and the growing movements among U.S. states to recognize gold and silver as official forms of money. The objective, Cortez says, is to break the federal government's monopoly on money.

"Fiat" money, Cortez says, is the root of unnecessary wars and the impoverishment of the people.

By William Clowes
Bloomberg News
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

A spectacular gold-market boom is spurring a push by African nations -- where the ground is rich in the precious metal -- to extract more revenue.

Bullion has soared almost 50% this year and hit yet another all-time high today at more than $3,800 an ounce. Global tensions stoked by President Donald Trump’s trade war, fears of an American government shutdown, and central bank buying have all helped to bolster its appeal as a safe-haven asset.

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By Ross Norman
Metals Daily, London
Monday, September 29, 2025

Is gold defying gravity?

As I see it, you have two options: either to believe the laws of gravity have been suspended, or to accept that gold and other precious metals exist within an entirely new paradigm. Simply claiming that the markets are massively overpriced and will return to "normal" marks you as a dinosaur who has y

et to understand that fundamental changes have occurred. ...

By Owen Walker, Leslie Hook, Chan Ho-him, and Cheng Leng
Financial Times, London
Monday, September 29, 2025

In the centre of a maximum-security storage facility sits one of the world's biggest vaults for precious metals, emblematic both of Asian ambition to become the centre of the global gold trade and the difficulties in achieving that goal.