Daily Dispatches

By Tim Kiladze
The Globe and Mail, Toronto
Monday, August 4, 2025

Canada's benchmark stock index is outperforming both the S&P 500 and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index in 2025, and there is a single sector doing the heavy lifting: gold.

Despite the continuing tariff drama with the United States that disproportionately hurts Canada's economy relative to the U.S., the S&P/TSX Composite Index is up 11.1% since the start of the year, including dividends, while the S&P 500 has climbed 6.9% and the Nasdaq has risen 7.3%.

By Emma Agyemang and Emma Dunkley
Financial Times, London
Friday, August 1, 2025

UK investors have been buying gold coins in record numbers this year to mitigate against rises in capital gains tax and to cash in on the surging price of the precious metal.

Online bullion transactions hit record levels in the first quarter of the 2025-26 financial year, the Royal Mint said last week. Bullion coin sales were up 115% compared with the same period last year.

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8:28p ET Wednesday, July 30, 2025

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Like gold, silver now seems to be breaking out of its longstanding derivatives clutches engineered by the U.S. government and its investment bank agents. But this largely surreptitious manipulation of the monetary metals markets hasn't been overthrown yet.

By Mike Maharrey
Money Metals Exchange, Eagle, Idaho
Tuesday, July 29, 2025

I ran across a 2021 meme the other day that vividly illustrates just how quickly the government is destroying your money.

The meme points out that in 1964 the minimum wage was $1.25, or five quarters. That sounds really low, but keep in mind that before 1965, quarters were 90% silver. In 2021 the melt value of those five quarters was $23.34.

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