{"id":140283,"date":"2019-01-17T10:22:10","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T15:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/?p=140283"},"modified":"2019-01-17T10:22:10","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T15:22:10","slug":"wyoming-legislators-want-state-to-de-risk-investments-by-holding-gold-and-silver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/2019\/01\/wyoming-legislators-want-state-to-de-risk-investments-by-holding-gold-and-silver\/","title":{"rendered":"Wyoming Legislators Want State to De-Risk Investments by Holding Gold and Silver"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"inves-1022182685\" class=\"inves-below-title-posts inves-entity-placement\"><div id =\"posts_date_custom\"><div align=\"left\">January 17, 2019<\/div><hr style=\"border: none; border-bottom: 3px solid black;\">\r\n<\/div><\/div><p><b>By Money Metals News Service<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>Cheyenne, Wyoming (January 17, 2019)<\/strong> &ndash; A group of Wyoming legislators have introduced three bills this week to de-risk the state&rsquo;s financial holdings with modest allocations to physical gold and silver in the state&rsquo;s pension fund, reserve fund, and mineral trust fund.<\/p>\n<p>Introduced by Representative Roy Edwards (R-Gillette) and co-sponsored by 15 others, the Wyoming Sound Money Trust Act (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.soundmoneydefense.org\/news\/2019\/01\/16\/trust-fund-gold-silver-000203\">HB 174<\/a>) empowers the State Treasurer to hold at least 10% of the Permanent Wyoming Mineral Trust Fund in the monetary metals in a depository in or near the state of Wyoming.<\/p>\n<p>The Permanent Wyoming Mineral Trust Fund is the state&rsquo;s oldest and most well-funded permanent fund with over $8 billion in assets.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Rep. Edwards successfully passed the ground-breaking <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moneymetals.com\/news\/2018\/03\/14\/wyoming-ends-all-taxation-on-gold-silver-001433\">Wyoming Legal Tender Act<\/a>, a measure which reaffirmed that gold and silver are constitutional money and removed all state taxation of them.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Wyoming Sound Money Pension Act (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.soundmoneydefense.org\/news\/2019\/01\/17\/wyoming-pension-gold-silver-000204\">HB 156<\/a>), introduced by Representative Mark Jennings (R-Sheridan), aims to reduce financial risk and better secure state-managed pension funds by allocating a modest 10% of Wyoming Pension System assets to the monetary metals.<\/p><div id=\"inves-3085403609\" class=\"inves-in-content inves-entity-placement\"><hr style=\"border: 1px solid #ddd;\">\r\n<div id=\"inpost_ads_header\">\r\n<p style=\"font-size:10px; float:left; color:#666;\">Free Reports:<\/p><\/div>\r\n<div id=\"inpost_ads\"> \r\n<p style=\"font-size:15px; float:left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/1ApBOV\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/investmacro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/graph_techs_PD.png\" align=\"left\" width=\"80\"  height=\"55\"\/><\/a>\r\n\t     <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/1ApBOV\"><b><u>Get Our Free Metatrader 4 Indicators<\/u><\/b><\/a> - Put Our Free MetaTrader 4 Custom Indicators on your charts when you join our Weekly Newsletter<\/p><br><br>\r\n<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<p style=\"font-size:15px; float:left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/f3RrHX\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/investmacro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/cot_pie_80.png\" align=\"left\" width=\"80\"  height=\"55\"\/><\/a>\r\n\t    <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/f3RrHX\"><b><u>Get our Weekly Commitment of Traders Reports<\/u><\/b><\/a> - See where the biggest traders (Hedge Funds and Commercial Hedgers) are positioned in the futures markets on a weekly basis.<\/p><br><br>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<hr style=\"border: 1px solid #ddd;\">\r\n<br><\/div>\n<p>And Representative Scott Clem (R-Campbell) introduced the third bill, the Wyoming Sound Money Reserve Act (HB 190). This measure requires that at least 10% of Wyoming&rsquo;s Legislative Stabilization Reserve Account be held in gold and silver.<\/p>\n<p>All of these measures would help the state hedge its risks of holding stocks, bonds, and short-term debt instrument with an allocation to a bedrock asset carrying no counterparty risk and proven to maintain purchasing power. The state has suffered significant investment losses in recent months, including a $220 million unrealized loss on investments in Third World debt.<\/p>\n<p>Backed by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.soundmoneydefense.org\/\">Sound Money Defense League<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.campaignforliberty.org\/\">Campaign for Liberty<\/a>, these measures protect Wyoming&rsquo;s accounts by insulating them with the only money proven to protect against the Federal Reserve Note&rsquo;s ongoing devaluation. Furthermore, an allocation to precious metals is proven to increase overall returns over time, reduce volatility, and reduce drawdowns.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><em>The Sound Money Defense League is a public policy group working nationally to bring back gold and silver as America&rsquo;s constitutional money and publisher of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moneymetals.com\/guides\/sound-money-index\">Sound Money Index<\/a>. For comment or more information, call 1-208-577-2225 or email jp.cortez@soundmoneydefense.org.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/articles-analysis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/money-metals.png\" align=\"left\" height=\"79\" width=\"80\"> The Money Metals News Service provides market news and crisp commentary for investors following the precious metals markets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Money Metals News Service Cheyenne, Wyoming (January 17, 2019) &ndash; A group of Wyoming legislators have introduced three bills this week to de-risk the state&rsquo;s financial holdings with modest allocations to physical gold and silver in the state&rsquo;s pension fund, reserve fund, and mineral trust fund. Introduced by Representative Roy Edwards (R-Gillette) and co-sponsored [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","no-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140284,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140283\/revisions\/140284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}