If there was a monthly award for celebrating the obvious, or one for deceitful propaganda, they well might go to Mark Sobel, U.S. chairman of the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum, ...

President Harry Truman harassed Eccles' successor for refusing to soak up federal debt and hold down bond yields, ultimately forcing him into the Fed-treasury accord, i.e. into total subjugation. This ...

The BIS has given no explanation for its gold swaps since their existence was disclosed in the bank's 2009-10 annual report. Regular questions are asked of GATA about the purpose of the swaps, and as ...

Today Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont, a Democrat, signed into law House Bill 7287, which includes a provision removing the last remaining state tax on purchases of gold, silver, platinum, and palladium ...

The Yatela mine, in Mali's western Kayes region, was abandoned in 2016 after Sadiola Exploration Co., a joint venture of South Africa's AngloGold Ashanti and Canada's IAMGOLD, determined that low ...

LAUNCESTON, Australia -- For decades, coal was the bedrock of Australia's commodity exports before it lost its top status to iron ore as shipments of the steel raw material to China soared. Now coal ...

Peter Boehringer, the architect of Germany's gold repatriation program, says what started as a debate in one Parliament is now playing out in central banks around the world. ... Dispatch continues ...

By Martin Sandbu Financial Times, London via MSN News, Redmond, Washington Sunday, June 29, 2025. The trade war unleashed by Donald Trump may be just the precursor for much larger turmoil in the ...

China's biggest gold and copper producer Zijin Mining said today it had agreed to buy one of the largest gold mines of Kazakhstan, the Raygorodok Gold Mine, for $1.2 billion.

The Shanghai Gold Exchange has expanded outside mainland China for the first time, with the rollout of two new contracts and a bullion vault in Hong Kong.

Central banks have instead joined the gold rush because they fear financial crises occurring, simultaneously and on multiple fronts, and these institutions constitute the first line of defence in ...