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The Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee was organized in January 1999 to advocate and undertake litigation against illegal collusion to control the price and supply of gold and related financial securities. The committee arose from essays by Bill Murphy, a financial commentator, and by Chris Powell, a newspaper editor in Connecticut, published at Murphy’s Internet site, www.lemetropolecafe.com.
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By Mike Maharrey
Money Metals Exchange, Eagle, Idaho
Friday, August 23, 2026
If you live long enough, you're going to have some regrets.
Woulda, coulda, shoulda, as my dad was fond of saying.
The thing about regrets is that they were totally avoidable. That's why there are regrets. We made a bad decision, a questionable call, a wrong turn.
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But regrets aren't all bad. We can learn from them and avoid making the same mistake twice.
I say all of this because I ran across a story about regrets the other day.
One-third of adults in the UK regret not investing in gold in the past five years.
Thirty percent say they regret missing out on silver.
This is according to research conducted by the Royal Mint. ...
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By Stuart Englert
Stuart Englert's Substack
Friday, August 21, 2026
The U.S. dollar took a walloping this week after the U.S. Treasury announced it would double purchases of long-term U.S. debt instruments beginning next month.
In short, the federal government once again must buy back a larger portion of its own bonds to help finance the exploding national debt, which surpassed $40 trillion for the first time on Wednesday.
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Why is the federal government forced to buy back more of its own bonds and monetize its debt?
Because investor appetite and sentiment for U.S. debt is waning. Buyers aren't eager to gobble up the glut of new federal debt issues, at least at current yield rates.
If the American economy was booming and buyers thought U.S. bonds were a great long-term investment, the Treasury wouldn’t have to purchase its own debt instruments to reduce its borrowing costs, service its debts and fulfill its other financial obligations. ...
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By Julie Zhang
South China Morning Post, Hong Kong
Friday, August 21, 2026
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing has reported record-breaking physical deliveries and a trading surge in its U.S. dollar-denominated gold futures contract, underscoring the city's ambition to become a global hub for the precious metal amid widening trade restrictions by the United States.
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The bourse operator physically delivered 145 kilograms (319.67 pounds) of gold, the highest single-day tally since the product was launched in 2018, according to a statement published on HKEX's official WeChat account.
The figure for Wednesday more than doubled the previous record of 63 kilograms (138.89 pounds) set in December 2018.
The surge came after HKEX relaunched the contract on July 6 -- the exchange's fourth attempt since the 1980s to establish a viable gold futures market. To boost liquidity, it introduced a marketwide waiver of its US$1-per-contract trading fee, which is scheduled to run until June 30, 2027. ...
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Dollar Wobbles as Treasury's Bond Market Buybacks Raise Fresh Concerns
By Niket Nishant and Rae Wee
Reuters
Thursday, August 20, 2026
The dollar slipped today and was set to end a bumpy week lower, as investors questioned whether the U.S. Treasury's efforts to calm the bond markets might end up undermining confidence in the currency.
Those concerns pushed the euro up 0.21% to $1.1703, on course for its fourth consecutive weekly gain. The British pound was up 0.15% to $1.3652, holding close to its highest since May.
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U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Thursday he may increase the government's repurchases of Treasuries further, a day after the department surprised markets with a pledge to double the size of buybacks of longer-dated debt to rein in bond yields.
But some argued that efforts to keep a lid on longer-term yields may only shift pressure elsewhere in U.S. markets, with the currency potentially bearing the brunt.
"When it comes to the dollar, even the hint of financial repression and more unconventional policy is unhelpful. We are becoming less convinced that the dollar will rebound as far as our current forecasts imply over the coming months," said Jonas Goltermann, chief markets economist at Capital Economics. ...
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By Ernest Scheyder and Jarrett Renshaw
Reuters
Thursday, August 20, 2026
The U.S. Department of Energy is awarding $500 million in grants to seven companies building domestic lithium, cobalt, and other mineral and battery projects, the latest in a string of investments aimed at bolstering American mining and processing, according to a document seen by Reuters.
The funding comes weeks after President Donald Trump outlined a goal to make the U.S. the "minerals superpower of the world" and curb reliance on market leader China.
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The administration has used loans, grants, government investments, and other tools to encourage new mining and processing projects, while seeking to build a more secure domestic supply chain for minerals considered essential to the economy and national security. ...
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That's if the official figures are true. But even if they are and China is buying the gold, isn't the bigger story that gold is the international reserve that can be sold without crashing the bond markets?
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From Bloomberg News
Thursday, August 20, 2026
The Bank of Russia continues to sell gold from its reserves, cutting its holdings at the end of July to the lowest level in more than six years.
Russia's bullion holdings fell by 1.6 million ounces since the start of the year to 73.2 million ounces as of Aug. 1, according to data published Thursday by the central bank. That's the smallest amount since January 2020.
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The value of the bank's gold reserves fell by $33.7 billion over the seven months, according to the data.
The Bank of Russia was once the biggest sovereign buyer of gold, purchasing much of the country's mined output before pausing acquisitions in early 2020. Two years later, its pledge to resume buying helped absorb part of the supply that the country struggled to export due to sanctions imposed over the February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, but the bank never resumed large-scale purchases. ...
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By Christopher Anstey, Jorgelina do Rosario,
Michael MacKenzie, and Greg Ritchie
Bloomberg News
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Wednesday, August 19, 2026
With a slew of unexpected maneuvers this year, Scott Bessent has emerged as the most interventionist Treasury secretary in financial markets in decades -- putting his credibility on the line in an effort to quell a potentially damaging rise in US borrowing costs.
Today brought the latest surprise. Just two weeks after releasing its schedule for buying back older Treasury securities, the Treasury Department announced it would "at least double" its planned purchases of outstanding 10-year to 30-year debt.
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That came after the Treasury this month opened the door to potential cuts in issuance of longer-dated debt. Then back on July 31, Bessent oversaw the first purchases of yen by U.S. authorities in three decades, an action seen as reducing the need for Japan to sell down its Treasuries stockpile to fund its own yen buying.
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By David Lawder and Jacob Bogage
Reuters
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Wednesday, August 19, 2026
WASHINGTON -- Total U.S. debt has topped $40 trillion for the first time, the Treasury Department said today, drawing fresh warnings that a fiscal crisis is brewing as ballooning costs for social safety-net programs and interest payments far outstrip revenues held back by tax cuts.
The Treasury's latest daily cash and debt balances statement showed total public debt outstanding at $40.047 trillion on Tuesday, a total that includes Treasury securities held by the public of $32.266 trillion and intra-governmental debt holdings of $7.782 trillion.
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The federal government's IOU has now more than doubled in less than a decade, from $19.95 trillion when President Donald Trump was sworn in for the first time in January 2017.
Roughly one-third of that increase occurred during two years of frantic government borrowing to fund the COVID-19 pandemic responses undertaken by Trump and former President Joe Biden, while the fiscal policy choices of both presidents combined with long-running tax-and-spending imbalances to account for the rest. ...
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