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Ed Steer's weekend gold and silver letter posted at SilverSeek

Section: Daily Dispatches

9:56a ET Sunday, September 7, 2025

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The weekend edition of GATA board member Ed Steer's Gold and Silver Digest is headlined "The U.S. Banks' Short Position in Silver Implodes" and is posted in the clear at SilverSeek here:

https://silverseek.com/article/us-banks-short-position-silver-implodes

Chinese central bank announces it purchased gold for 10th straight month

Section: Daily Dispatches

China's Central Bank Extends Gold Buying to 10 Months

From Bloomberg News
via Yahoo News, Sunnyvale, California
Saturday, September 6, 2025

The People's Bank of China increased its gold holdings in August for a 10th month in a continued push to diversify its reserves away from U.S. dollars.

Bullion held by the central bank rose by 0.06 million troy ounces to 74.02 million troy ounces last month, according to data released Sunday. China began this round of gold purchases in November, accumulating a total of 1.22 million troy ounces over the period. ...

Jesse Columbo: A look at gold's breakout in multiple currencies

Section: Daily Dispatches

Excellent charts in this analysis.

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By Jesse Colombo
The Bubble Bubble Report, Substack.com
Saturday, September 6, 2025

One of the trademarks of this newsletter is analyzing gold in multiple world currencies to determine whether it is truly firing on all cylinders, rather than behaving like a 12-cylinder Ferrari running on just six. That's how my dad used to describe me in grade school whenever I brought home a disappointing report card and clearly wasn't giving my all.

Alasdair Macleod: Gold and silver are front-running big changes in currencies

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Alasdair Macleod
GoldMoney, Toronto
Friday, September 5, 2025

There's growing appreciation that the gold and silver bull has returned, though the reasons justifying it may not be apparent. But this week's price action is an important turning point.

Trump exempts gold, tungsten, and uranium from tariffs

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Jennifer A. Dlouhy
Bloomberg News
via Yahoo News, Sunnyvale, California
Saturday, September 6, 2025

President Donald Trump moved Friday to exempt graphite, tungsten, uranium, gold bullion, and other metals from his country-based tariffs, while subjecting silicone products to the levies.

The changes are set to take effect on Monday under an executive order issued Friday.

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BRICS are converting paper to real metal, shafting U.S., Maguire tells LFTV

Section: Daily Dispatches

11:33a ET Friday, September 5, 2025

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The BRICS nations are fully aware of the vulnerability of the United States and its allies with gold and silver and are steadily converting paper positions to actual metal, London metals trader Andrew Maguire tells this week's episode of Kinesis Money's "Live from the Vault" program.

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Stablecoin group Tether holds talks to invest in gold miners

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Leslie Hook and Nikou Asgari
Financial Times, London
Friday, September 5, 2025

Tether, the biggest stablecoin company, has held talks about investing in gold mining, seeking to deploy its vast crypto profits into bullion.

The company has held discussions with mining and investment groups about investing in the entire gold supply chain, from mining and refining to trading and royalty companies, according to four people familiar with the recent talks.

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Sean Ring: King Dollar is losing to King Midas

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By Sean Ring
Daily Reckoning, Baltimore
Thursday, September 4, 2025

Stimulating though it is, working at Paradigm Press sometimes feels like you're part of a band of Cassandras railing against the end of times. Not the end of the world, just the end of the current world. The way things are. Business as usual, so to speak.

However, business is becoming unusual at breakneck speed, although John Q. Public and his wife, Jane, are doing their best to ignore it. That's why, despite our best efforts, John and Jane always get stuck holding the bag.

Time to sell? Gold gets some respect at Reuters

Section: Daily Dispatches

Gold's Rise in Central Bank Reserves Seems Unstoppable

By Jamie McGeever
Reuters
Thursday, September 4, 2025

Worries over inflation, deteriorating U.S. fiscal health, Federal Reserve independence, and geopolitical instability are raising questions about the stability of long-term Treasuries, traditionally the world's safest asset. 

In response, many central banks are turning back to that "barbarous relic," gold.

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Brien Lundin: The gold and silver hounds have been unleashed. Catch up with them Nov. 2-5 in New Orleans

Section: Daily Dispatches

GATA Chairman Bill Murphy and Secretary/Treasurer Chris Powell will be speaking there.

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By Brien Lundin
Publisher, Gold Newsletter / Golden Opportunities
CEO, New Orleans Investment Conference
Wednesday, September 3, 2025

Shortly after his speech at the recent Jackson Hole gathering for central bankers, I issued this urgent warning to you: "Fed Chairman Jerome Powell just unleashed the hounds."

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