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50 Years of No Gold Standard - Craig Hemke, David Morgan, James Anderson

By Wall Street Silver

It has been 50 years since Richard Nixon took us "temporarily" off of the Gold Standard. How has that affected our currency? Our standard of living? Our future?

Those Gold Smashes Aren't the Bullion Banks' Doing but Government's

By Chris Powell, GATA

Indeed, it long has seemed that the entities rigging the monetary metals markets have lost all concern about being caught and causing suspicion. It has seemed that they have wanted investors to believe that it is impossible..

Ubiquity, Complexity, and Sandpiles

By John Mauldin, Thoughts from the Frontline

We no longer have business cycles; we have credit cycles. Central banks and governments, not to mention investment banks and investors, are all using credit in formerly unbelievable ways ...

Liquidity Alarm

By Gary Tanashian, NFTRH

Market liquidity is draining from different vantage points.

Is The Fed Bracing For Impact? Got Gold (And Silver?)

By Dave Kranzler, Mining Stock Journal

Wall Street on Parade read through the Fed’s Annual Report for 2020 and discovered a direct correlation between the Fed’s deployment of large repo operations precedes the onset of a financial crisis.

The Bad, The Ugly and The Good

By Ted Butler, Butler Research

As such, it becomes easier to see that there was an intentional and deliberate motive to the bombing of gold and silver prices not camouflaged by movements in other markets. It was clear to see that the smashing of gold and silver was quite unique and specific.

Gold and Silver Thrive in High-debt Environments

By Richard Mills, Ahead of the Herd

More spending is on the way. A LOT MORE. As Rahm Emanuel said during the Great Recession, “You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.”

End of an ERA: The Bretton Woods System and Gold Standard Exchange

By Stephen Flood, GoldCore

The Bretton Woods Monetary System was not a Gold Standard, in the purest form, but it was a Gold-Exchange Standard. US political and economic dominance necessitated the dollar being at the center of the system.

Gold Smashdown vs Gold on Fire

By Keith Weiner, Monetary Metals

The gold price dropped precipitously on Sunday evening, August 8. Or it was smashed down, depending on which headline you read. We look at the data to see what really happened to the price of gold.

BIS gold swaps rose back over 500 tonnes in June

By Robert Lambourne

Once again it is clear that the BIS remains an active trader of significant volumes of gold swaps on a regular basis. So far there seems to be no definitive sign from its monthly reports that the BIS is reducing..

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