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May 6, 2021 | The CFTC’s Response Ted Butler No one has followed the silver market trading mechanics for as long or as closely as Ted Butler. At just shy of the two-month mark, I received a response from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission yesterday to my letter of March 5. I had raised highly specific questions regarding the concentrated short position of the four largest traders in COMEX silver futures, both over the week ended Feb 2 in which these traders were the sole short sellers and on the broader basis of these traders holding the largest short position in any commodity in real world terms. As a refresher, here’s a copy of my original letter. ....
Treasure Coast nonprofits dig into local history to celebrate Black History Month Lamaur Stancil, Treasure Coast Newspapers Much of the national attention for Black History Month goes to cities in Alabama or Oklahoma, the sites of major events in the civil rights movement. On the Treasure Coast, residents are looking there too, but also locally as they celebrate Black pioneers who entered the swampland before it was a state, worshipped in Vero Beach and sold paintings along Old Dixie Highway throughout South Florida. I go to the Gomez Pioneer Cemetery in Hobe Sound and look at the years these people were born, said Martin County history enthusiast Lloyd Jones. You see dates from the 1800s, and I try to imagine what life was like for them and I want to investigate why they came to South Florida, well before there was a tourism industry here. ....