April 7, 2022 With the ramifications of the US lead sanctions against Russia playing out, an assessment of initial collateral damage can now be made. The collateral damage being looked at here is that for the US. Besides more fuel being poured on the inflation fire from the purposeful attack on key commodities, the debate regarding the future of the USD as global reserve currency[...]
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Will Russia Turn to Gold to Save the Ruble? Possible Pivot in the Financial War.
March 24, 2022 Originally published by QTR's Fringe Finance Russia Will Backstop The Ruble With Gold. The backstopping of the Ruble with gold can come in many forms and doesn’t have to be a direct peg from the Ruble to gold - it can include accepting payment for oil in gold. Now that Russia has come right out and said it will only transact in Rubles when selling oil to[...]
Fed Rate Hikes Unlikely Threat to Gold – XAU/USD Moves Off Monthly Low
March 17, 2022 - Despite yesterday’s 25 basis points rate hike announced by the US Federal Reserve, gold has regained its positive traction and risen above $1,940. Fed Chair Powell has indicated that additional rate hikes are under consideration in the coming months and the consensus is for a total of seven rate hikes by year’s end. Contrary to the belief that an increase in interest[...]
Ukraine “Truce” Fails: Withdrawal Deadline Passes, Debaltseve Situation Deteriorating
UPDATE: *POROSHENKO SAYS UN MUST NOT ALLOW FULL-SCALE WAR IN EUROPE As the game of chicken between Greece and the Eurogroup hots up, it appears another - potentially far more deadly - is escalating in Ukraine as neither side is willing to follow through on the terms of the Minsk Summit peace deal - removing heavy weaponry from the frontlines - as a key deadline passes without agreement. As The[...]
Gold Held In NY Fed Vault Drops To Lowest In 21st Century After Biggest Monthly Withdrawal Since 2001
Exactly one month ago we observed that, as expected in the aftermath of the Netherlands' shocking and still not fully-explained gold repatriation from the NY Fed, the amount of foreign earmarked gold on deposit with the Fed had just experienced a 42 ton withdrawal: the single largest outflow of gold held at the NY Fed in over a decade, going back all the way to 2001. This had brought the total[...]
With Its Gold “Vaporized”, A Furious Ukraine Turns On Its Central Bankers
As reported two weeks ago, following a stunning announcement by the head of Ukraine's central bank, Valeriya Gontareva, on primetime TV we learned that (virtually) all of Ukraine's gold was gone, or - in the parlance of Jon Corzine - had "vaporized." And as we also predicted two weeks ago, it was only a matter of time before Ukraine's people - the vast majority of whom are innocent pawns in a[...]
Putin Warns Of Risk Of Major Conflict, Says Dollar Losing Reserve Currency Status
Having been relatively quiet for a while, Russia's leader Vladimir, speaking in Sochi (following meetings with Middle East crown princes who confirmed Russia as a key partner - "isolated"?), has unleashed his most aggressive statements with regard the failing world order: *PUTIN SAYS U.S. DOLLAR LOSING TRUST AS RESERVE CURRENCY *PUTIN: WORLD WITHOUT RULES IS POSSIBILITY; ANARCHY[...]
More Than Just Gas: Is This Natural Resource The Reason For The Ukraine Civil War?
Earlier today, we got a definitive confirmation that when Obama was talking about "costs" when jawboning on the ongoing Ukraine civil war, he envisioned not only Germany, and thus Europe, both of which are teetering on the edge of a triple-dip recession due to Russian sanctions, but Ukraine itself. The reason: the Ukraine economy appears to have ground to a halt following an overnight report that [...]