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Afghanistan’s gold at the NY Fed: 1,731 old bars held since 1939

Not for the first time, the US Treasury has just gone and frozen the US held assets of Afghanistan’s central bank, the Da Afghanistan Bank (DAB).

The Changing Role of Gold

By Stephen Flood, GoldCore

What role can gold serve in the international financial system in the future? And why do central banks continue to increase their gold reserves?

The Gold Standard: Why The Financial And Economic Crises Continue (Steve Forbes)

By GoldSeek.com

It was always understood that the Dollar's ultimate value had to be linked to the yellow metal. Why? We all know markets works best with fixed weights and measures. Money is a measure of value and works best when its value is stable.

Is Inflation Cooling and Putting in a Top? Could it be that I was wrong?

By David Haggith, The Daily Doom

We delude ourselves into thinking we are invincible as surely as we delude ourselves into thinking the Fed can endlessly paper over our deep economic fault lines with new money. Reality has a way of breaking ..

British Requests for $3 billion in US Treasury Gold – The Trigger that Closed the Gold Window

By Ronan Manly, BullionStar

So without further ado, here is why, and it all revolves around the British ambassador to the US. the 3rd Earl of Cromer, a.k.a. George Rowland Baring, showing up at the US Treasury offices in Washington D.C. on 12 August 1971 and demanding that US dollars held by Britain be converted into gold.

Here’s a New One; Palantir Buys Gold…

By Gary Tanashian, NFTRH

Palantir (PLTR) bought $50 million worth of gold bars -- This is novel in the world of paper and digits. While companies fall all over themselves trying to board the Bitcoin train..

Financial Times: Believe in Unicorns, Not Gold

By Chris Powell, GATA

GATA doesn't advocate returning to some sort of a gold standard. GATA advocates free and transparent markets..

A System of Confidence

By Craig Hemke, TF Metals Report

Never forget that the current monetary system—the one that has been in place now for 50 years—exists solely upon CONFIDENCE. Remove confidence and you're left with nothing.

What Trick Did Tricky Dicky Pull 50 Years Ago?

By Keith Weiner, Monetary Metals

On August 15, 1971, President Nixon decreed that the US dollar would no longer be redeemable for the gold owed, even to foreign governments. This bad decision was a desperate attempt..

Nixon Abandoned Gold in 1971 - Bill Holter & Andy Schectman

By Wall Street Silver

Bill Holter & Andy Schectman join us to explain what happened, the negative changes since 1971 and how the market is on the verge of forcing us back onto a gold standard.

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