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Koos Jansen: China's banks don't really have much gold

Section: Daily Dispatches

1:58p ET Friday, November 18, 2016

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Gold researcher Koos Jansen reports today that gold assets on the books of Chinese banks are largely illusory and cannot account for the "surplus" gold believed to reside in China. His analysis is headlined "Synthetic Gold Leasing: More Details Regarding the 'Precious Metals' on Chinese Commercial Bank Balance Sheets" and it's posted at Bullion Star here:

https://www.bullionstar.com/blogs/koos-jansen/synthetic-gold-leasing-mor...

CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer
Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.
CPowell@GATA.org



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