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India's March gold imports to drop 90% as prices surge, sources tell Reuters
Submitted by admin on Thu, 2024-03-28 10:55 Section: Daily Dispatches
By Rajendra Jadhav
Reuters
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
MUMBAI -- India's gold imports are set to plunge by more than 90% in March from the previous month to hit their lowest level since the COVID pandemic as banks cut imports after record-high prices hit demand, a government official and two bank dealers told Reuters.
Lower imports by India, the world's second biggest consumer of the precious metal, could limit a rally in global prices that hit a record high earlier this month on expectations that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates this year.
The drop in imports could also help India narrow its trade deficit and support the rupee.
India's gold imports are likely to fall to 10 to 11 metric tons in March from 110 metric tons in February, said a government official, who declined to be named as he was not authorised to talk to the media. ...
... For the remainder of the report:
https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/indias-march-gold-imports-set-drop-90-prices-surge-sources-2024-03-2**************;
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Jim Rickards: Why gold is the everything hedge
Submitted by admin on Wed, 2024-03-27 19:32 Section: Daily Dispatches
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/
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.
The actual securities are held in custody in digital form at European banks, U.S. banks, and the Brussels-based Euroclear clearinghouse. Only about $20 billion of those Treasury securities are held by U.S. banks; the majority are held by Euroclear. Those assets were frozen by the United States at the outbreak of the war in Ukraine.
Freezing assets means the Russians cannot collect interest or sell or transfer the assets or pledge them as collateral. Asset freezes are used frequently by the United States, including in the cases of Iran, Syria, Cuba, North Korea, Venezuela, and other nations. Often the assets are frozen for years but ultimately released to the owner as happened in the case of Iran after 2012.
Now the U.S. wants to go further and actually seize the assets, which may be viewed as outright theft under international law. The U.S. proposes to use the $300 billion to finance the war in Ukraine. European entities have expressed considerable uncertainty about this plan but the U.S. has maintained the pressure and wants to complete the theft before the June and July summits of G7 leaders and NATO members.
If the U.S. steals these assets, Russia will likely confiscate an equivalent amount of industrial and commercial assets located in Russia and owned by German, French, and Italian interests among others.
The bottom line is that if U.S. Treasury securities are not a safe investment, then securities of Germany, Italy, France, the United Kingdom, and Japan are no better.
The only reserve asset free of this kind of digital theft is gold. Nations are beginning to diversify into gold in order to insulate themselves from digital confiscation by the collective West.
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Federal Reserve refuses to provide records of foreign gold holdings
Submitted by admin on Wed, 2024-03-27 15:41 Section: Daily Dispatches
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.
According to a 2023 Invesco survey, a "substantial percentage" of central banks expressed concern about how the U.S. and its allies froze nearly half of Russia’s $650 billion gold and forex reserves.
U.S. Rep. Alex Mooney, R-W.Va., asked Powell about the matter in a December letter, only to have the Fed chair respond last month with evasive non-answers, telling him that the Federal Reserve does not own gold but holds it as a custodian for other entities -- a fact that the congressman presumably already knew.
Following Powell's evasive response, Headline USA filed a FOIA request with the Fed for records reflecting how much gold the Federal Reserve Bank of New York currently holds in its vault, as well as records reflecting the ownership stake that each of FRBNY's central bank/government clients have in that gold. The FOIA request also sought records about the Fed's gold holdings prior to Russia's February 2022 invasion of Ukraine. ...
... For the remainder of the report:
https://headlineusa.com/federal-reserve-refuses-to-provide-records-of-foreign-gold-holdings/
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Secret national police report warns Canadians may revolt once they realize how broke they are
Submitted by admin on Wed, 2024-03-27 11:53 Section: Daily Dispatches
When Americans discover the same thing, their revolt may make Canada's seem like a tea party.
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.
"The coming period of recession will ... accelerate the decline in living standards that the younger generations have already witnessed compared to earlier generations," reads the report, entitled "Whole-of-Government Five-Year Trends for Canada."
For example, many Canadians under 35 are unlikely ever to be able to buy a place to live," it adds.
The report, labelled secret, is intended as a piece of "special operational information" to be distributed only within the RCMP and among "decision makers" in the federal government. ...
... For the remainder of the report:
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/secret-rcmp-report-warns-canadians-may-revolt-once-they-realize-how-broke-they-are
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Switch to gold standard could stabilize prices, Philly Fed researchers find
Submitted by admin on Tue, 2024-03-26 16:47 Section: Daily Dispatches
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.
They argue that the price level would consistently converge to its long-run equilibrium value. Inflation and deflation would be "merely temporary phenomena." ...
... For the remainder of the report:
https://www.centralbanking.com/central-banks/monetary-policy/7961027/switch-to-gold-standard-could-stabilise-prices-philadelphia-fed-research
(/NOW SWITCHING TO GOLD) FOR NEWCOMERS, HERE ARE THE DETAILS
SPREADING LIQUIDATION HAS NOW COMMENCED AS WE HEAD TOWARDS THE NEW ACTIVE FRONT MONTH OF FEB. WE ARE NOW INTO THE SPREADING OPERATION OF GOLD
HERE IS A BRIEF SYNOPSIS OF HOW THE CROOKS FLEECE UNSUSPECTING LONGS IN THE SPREADING ENDEAVOUR ;MODUS OPERANDI OF THE CORRUPT BANKERS AS TO HOW THEY HANDLE THEIR SPREAD OPEN INTERESTS:HERE IS HOW THE CROOKS USED SPREADING AS WE ARE NOW INTO THE NON ACTIVE DELIVERY MONTH OF NOV HEADING TOWARDS THE ACTIVE DELIVERY MONTH OF FEB., FOR GOLD: AND MARCH FOR SILVER
YOU WILL ALSO NOTICE THAT THE COMEX OPEN INTEREST STARTS TO RISE BUT SO IS THE OPEN INTEREST OF SPREADERS. THE OPEN INTEREST IN WILL CONTINUE TO RISE UNTIL ONE WEEK BEFORE FIRST DAY NOTICE OF AN UPCOMING ACTIVE DELIVERY MONTH (APRIL), AND THAT IS WHEN THE CROOKS SELL THEIR SPREAD POSITIONS BUT NOT AT THE SAME TIME OF THE DAY. THEY WILL USE THE SELL SIDE OF THE EQUATION TO CREATE THE CASCADE (ALONG WITH THEIR COLLUSIVE FRIENDS) AND THEN COVER ON THE BUY SIDE OF THE SPREAD SITUATION AT THE END OF THE DAY. THEY DO THIS TO AVOID POSITION LIMIT DETECTION. THE LIQUIDATION OF THE SPREADING FORMATION CONTINUES FOR EXACTLY ONE WEEK AND ENDS ON FIRST DAY NOTICE.”
WHAT IS ALARMING TO ME, ACCORDING TO OUR LONDON EXPERT ANDREW MAGUIRE IS THAT THESE EFP’S ARE BEING TRANSFERRED TO WHAT ARE CALLED SERIAL FORWARD CONTRACT OBLIGATIONS AND THESE CONTRACTS ARE LESS THAN 14 DAYS. ANYTHING GREATER THAN 14 DAYS, THESE MUST BE RECORDED AND SENT TO THE COMPTROLLER, GREAT BRITAIN TO MONITOR RISK TO THE BANKING SYSTEM. IF THIS IS INDEED TRUE, THEN THIS IS A MASSIVE CONSPIRACY TO DEFRAUD AS WE NOW WITNESS A MONSTROUS TOTAL EFP’S ISSUANCE AS IT HEADS INTO THE STRATOSPHERE.
https://harveyorganblog.com/2024/03/28/march-28-blog-first-day-notice-for-both-the-gold-and-silver-april-contract-month-gold-in-record-territory-with-respect-to-all-currencies-gold-closed-up-26-30-to-2218-30-silver-closed-up-0-20-to/
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Daily Dispatches
India's March gold imports to drop 90% as prices surge, sources tell Reuters
Submitted by admin on Thu, 2024-03-28 10:55 Section: Daily Dispatches
By Rajendra Jadhav
Reuters
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
MUMBAI -- India's gold imports are set to plunge by more than 90% in March from the previous month to hit their lowest level since the COVID pandemic as banks cut imports after record-high prices hit demand, a government official and two bank dealers told Reuters.
Lower imports by India, the world's second biggest consumer of the precious metal, could limit a rally in global prices that hit a record high earlier this month on expectations that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates this year.
The drop in imports could also help India narrow its trade deficit and support the rupee.
India's gold imports are likely to fall to 10 to 11 metric tons in March from 110 metric tons in February, said a government official, who declined to be named as he was not authorised to talk to the media. ...
... For the remainder of the report:
https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/indias-march-gold-imports-set-drop-90-prices-surge-sources-2024-03-2**************;
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Jim Rickards: Why gold is the everything hedge
Submitted by admin on Wed, 2024-03-27 19:32 Section: Daily Dispatches
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/
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.
The actual securities are held in custody in digital form at European banks, U.S. banks, and the Brussels-based Euroclear clearinghouse. Only about $20 billion of those Treasury securities are held by U.S. banks; the majority are held by Euroclear. Those assets were frozen by the United States at the outbreak of the war in Ukraine.
Freezing assets means the Russians cannot collect interest or sell or transfer the assets or pledge them as collateral. Asset freezes are used frequently by the United States, including in the cases of Iran, Syria, Cuba, North Korea, Venezuela, and other nations. Often the assets are frozen for years but ultimately released to the owner as happened in the case of Iran after 2012.
Now the U.S. wants to go further and actually seize the assets, which may be viewed as outright theft under international law. The U.S. proposes to use the $300 billion to finance the war in Ukraine. European entities have expressed considerable uncertainty about this plan but the U.S. has maintained the pressure and wants to complete the theft before the June and July summits of G7 leaders and NATO members.
If the U.S. steals these assets, Russia will likely confiscate an equivalent amount of industrial and commercial assets located in Russia and owned by German, French, and Italian interests among others.
The bottom line is that if U.S. Treasury securities are not a safe investment, then securities of Germany, Italy, France, the United Kingdom, and Japan are no better.
The only reserve asset free of this kind of digital theft is gold. Nations are beginning to diversify into gold in order to insulate themselves from digital confiscation by the collective West.
*****************************************************
Federal Reserve refuses to provide records of foreign gold holdings
Submitted by admin on Wed, 2024-03-27 15:41 Section: Daily Dispatches
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.
According to a 2023 Invesco survey, a "substantial percentage" of central banks expressed concern about how the U.S. and its allies froze nearly half of Russia’s $650 billion gold and forex reserves.
U.S. Rep. Alex Mooney, R-W.Va., asked Powell about the matter in a December letter, only to have the Fed chair respond last month with evasive non-answers, telling him that the Federal Reserve does not own gold but holds it as a custodian for other entities -- a fact that the congressman presumably already knew.
Following Powell's evasive response, Headline USA filed a FOIA request with the Fed for records reflecting how much gold the Federal Reserve Bank of New York currently holds in its vault, as well as records reflecting the ownership stake that each of FRBNY's central bank/government clients have in that gold. The FOIA request also sought records about the Fed's gold holdings prior to Russia's February 2022 invasion of Ukraine. ...
... For the remainder of the report:
https://headlineusa.com/federal-reserve-refuses-to-provide-records-of-foreign-gold-holdings/
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Secret national police report warns Canadians may revolt once they realize how broke they are
Submitted by admin on Wed, 2024-03-27 11:53 Section: Daily Dispatches
When Americans discover the same thing, their revolt may make Canada's seem like a tea party.
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.
"The coming period of recession will ... accelerate the decline in living standards that the younger generations have already witnessed compared to earlier generations," reads the report, entitled "Whole-of-Government Five-Year Trends for Canada."
For example, many Canadians under 35 are unlikely ever to be able to buy a place to live," it adds.
The report, labelled secret, is intended as a piece of "special operational information" to be distributed only within the RCMP and among "decision makers" in the federal government. ...
... For the remainder of the report:
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/secret-rcmp-report-warns-canadians-may-revolt-once-they-realize-how-broke-they-are
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Switch to gold standard could stabilize prices, Philly Fed researchers find
Submitted by admin on Tue, 2024-03-26 16:47 Section: Daily Dispatches
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.
They argue that the price level would consistently converge to its long-run equilibrium value. Inflation and deflation would be "merely temporary phenomena." ...
... For the remainder of the report:
https://www.centralbanking.com/central-banks/monetary-policy/7961027/switch-to-gold-standard-could-stabilise-prices-philadelphia-fed-research
(/NOW SWITCHING TO GOLD) FOR NEWCOMERS, HERE ARE THE DETAILS
SPREADING LIQUIDATION HAS NOW COMMENCED AS WE HEAD TOWARDS THE NEW ACTIVE FRONT MONTH OF FEB. WE ARE NOW INTO THE SPREADING OPERATION OF GOLD
HERE IS A BRIEF SYNOPSIS OF HOW THE CROOKS FLEECE UNSUSPECTING LONGS IN THE SPREADING ENDEAVOUR ;MODUS OPERANDI OF THE CORRUPT BANKERS AS TO HOW THEY HANDLE THEIR SPREAD OPEN INTERESTS:HERE IS HOW THE CROOKS USED SPREADING AS WE ARE NOW INTO THE NON ACTIVE DELIVERY MONTH OF NOV HEADING TOWARDS THE ACTIVE DELIVERY MONTH OF FEB., FOR GOLD: AND MARCH FOR SILVER
YOU WILL ALSO NOTICE THAT THE COMEX OPEN INTEREST STARTS TO RISE BUT SO IS THE OPEN INTEREST OF SPREADERS. THE OPEN INTEREST IN WILL CONTINUE TO RISE UNTIL ONE WEEK BEFORE FIRST DAY NOTICE OF AN UPCOMING ACTIVE DELIVERY MONTH (APRIL), AND THAT IS WHEN THE CROOKS SELL THEIR SPREAD POSITIONS BUT NOT AT THE SAME TIME OF THE DAY. THEY WILL USE THE SELL SIDE OF THE EQUATION TO CREATE THE CASCADE (ALONG WITH THEIR COLLUSIVE FRIENDS) AND THEN COVER ON THE BUY SIDE OF THE SPREAD SITUATION AT THE END OF THE DAY. THEY DO THIS TO AVOID POSITION LIMIT DETECTION. THE LIQUIDATION OF THE SPREADING FORMATION CONTINUES FOR EXACTLY ONE WEEK AND ENDS ON FIRST DAY NOTICE.”
WHAT IS ALARMING TO ME, ACCORDING TO OUR LONDON EXPERT ANDREW MAGUIRE IS THAT THESE EFP’S ARE BEING TRANSFERRED TO WHAT ARE CALLED SERIAL FORWARD CONTRACT OBLIGATIONS AND THESE CONTRACTS ARE LESS THAN 14 DAYS. ANYTHING GREATER THAN 14 DAYS, THESE MUST BE RECORDED AND SENT TO THE COMPTROLLER, GREAT BRITAIN TO MONITOR RISK TO THE BANKING SYSTEM. IF THIS IS INDEED TRUE, THEN THIS IS A MASSIVE CONSPIRACY TO DEFRAUD AS WE NOW WITNESS A MONSTROUS TOTAL EFP’S ISSUANCE AS IT HEADS INTO THE STRATOSPHERE.
https://harveyorganblog.com/2024/03/28/march-28-blog-first-day-notice-for-both-the-gold-and-silver-april-contract-month-gold-in-record-territory-with-respect-to-all-currencies-gold-closed-up-26-30-to-2218-30-silver-closed-up-0-20-to/
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