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Jim Rickards: Why gold is the everything hedge

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By James G. Rickards
The Daily Reckoning, Baltimore
Wednesday, March 27, 2024

Excerpted from his commentary tonight at The Daily Reckoning, "Gold Is the Everything Hedge":

https://dailyreckoning.com/goldilocks-is-gonna-get-it/

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Gold prices are being driven higher by U.S. threats to steal $300 billion in U.S. Treasury securities from the Russian Federation. Those assets were legally purchased by the Central Bank of Russia as part of their reserve position.

Federal Reserve refuses to provide records of foreign gold holdings

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By Ken Silva
Headline USA, Charlotte, North Carolina
Wednesday, March 27, 2024

Weeks after Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell evaded a congressman's questions about the central bank's foreign gold holdings, the Fed has also declined to comply with a Freedom of Information Act request for records about such holdings.

The Federal Reserve's lack of transparency comes amid reports that countries are removing their gold and other assets from the U.S. in the wake of the unprecedented Western sanctions imposed on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.

Secret national police report warns Canadians may revolt once they realize how broke they are

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When Americans discover the same thing, their revolt may make Canada's seem like a tea party.

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By Tristin Hopper
National Post, Toronto
Wednesday, March 20, 2024

A secret Royal Canadian Mounted Police report is warning the federal government that Canada may descend into civil unrest once citizens realize the hopelessness of their economic situation.

Switch to gold standard could stabilize prices, Philly Fed researchers find

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From Central Banking, London
Tuesday, March 26, 2024

Long-run price stability could be a key feature of the gold standard, researchers with the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia find.

In their working paper, published in February, Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde and Daniel Sanches explore how the gold standard would operate as a monetary framework in a hypothetical small open economy.

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World Bank publishes 'Gold Investing Handbook for Asset Managers'

Section: Daily Dispatches

12:47p ET Tuesday, March 26, 2024

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Gold researcher Jan Nieuwenhuijs today points out that the World Bank, a Washington-based international entity that seems intended in large part to keep the developing world tied to the U.S. dollar, has just published its "Gold Investing Handbook for Asset Managers."

The handbook doesn't seem to mention gold market manipulation by central banks but at least it's recognition of the metal's growing acceptance as money by financial establishment types.

Grassroots efforts secure another repeal of gold and silver sales taxes

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By Mike Maharrey
Sound Money Defense League
Money Metals News Service, Eagle, Idaho
Sunday, March 24, 2024

Major sound money battles in the states have been heating up -- with important bills moving forward right now in Kentucky, New Jersey, Idaho, Nebraska, and Iowa, among others.

Adding to a long list of Money Metals' legislative victories, last week Utah became the fourth state to embrace the idea of holding gold as a reserve asset, and Wisconsin became the 44th state to repeal sales taxes on gold and silver.

Central banks and their agents use ETFs to rig gold and silver, Maguire says

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12:50p ET Saturday, March 23, 2024

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

In this week's "Live from the Vault" program from Kinesis Money, London metals trader Andrew Maguire says demand for physical silver is propelling the metal's price just as demand for physical has been doing for gold. He adds that central banks and their bullion bank agents are using the major gold and silver exchange-traded funds for price suppression.

The program is 42 minutes long and can be viewed at YouTube here:

Utah approves putting state money into gold and silver to protect state reserve funds

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From Money Metals News Service
Money Metals Exchange, Eagle, Idaho
Friday, March 22, 2024

Utah Governor Spencer Cox signed on Thursday legislation empowering the state treasurer to secure state funds with a significant allocation to physical gold and silver.

Sponsored by state Rep. Ken Ivory, House Bill 348 permits the treasurer to hold up to 10% of certain state reserve accounts in precious metals to help secure state assets against the risks of inflation and financial turmoil and/or to achieve capital gains as measured in Federal Reserve Notes.

Jan Nieuwenhuijs: China has taken gold price control away from the West

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11:53a ET Friday, March 22, 2024

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Gold researcher Jan Nieuwenhuijs reports today that China's net gold imports for 2024 have turned out to be double what he estimated in his analysis called to your attention by GATA yesterday and so he has updated the analysis at the Gainesville Coins internet site. He now headlines it "China Has Taken Over Gold Price Control from the West" and it's posted at the Gainesville Coins internet site here:

Despite rising gold prices, investors leave miners behind

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By Gabriel Friedman
National Post, Toronto
Thursday, March 21, 2024

Two decades ago rising gold prices launched a historic bull run in Canada's gold mining sector. Now, bullion is popping to all-time highs again, but this time investors are fleeing gold miners’ stocks in droves.

Even gold exchange-traded funds, which use investors' money to acquire physical stockpiles of bullion, are contracting as gold prices rise, which is precisely the opposite of what many analysts expected.

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