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Peter Brimelow: Gold bushwhacks bears -- Is a central bank buying?

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Peter Brimelow
MarketWatch.com
Monday, May 21, 2012

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/gold-bushwhacks-bears-2012-05-21

NEW YORK -- Gold bushwhacked the bears last week. It's even got gold bugs talking about gold stocks ... again.

JPM, Facebook, gold, and the potential for a titanic financial market event

Section: Daily Dispatches

7:35a ET Monday, May 21, 2012

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GATA Chairman Bill Murphy's special weekend "Midas" commentary at LeMetropoleCafe.com, "JPM, Facebook, Gold ... and the Potential of A Titanic Financial Market Event," has been posted at GoldSeek here:

http://news.goldseek.com/LemetropoleCafe/1337588175.php

CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer

Join GATA at the Vancouver Resource Investment Conference in two weeks

Section: Daily Dispatches

1:54p ET Sunday, May 20, 2012

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Campaign urges Britain to restore its gold reserves

Section: Daily Dispatches

1:26p ET Monday, May 20, 2012

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Our friends at the Real Asset Co. in London have started a campaign urging the United Kingdom to buy back the gold reserves it sold at what is derided as "Brown's Bottom" starting in 1999. The campaign's Internet site page is here:

http://therealasset.co.uk/buy-britains-gold-back/

CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer

GoldMoney's Turk interviews Sprott's Embry on gold's bullish future

Section: Daily Dispatches

1:20p ET Sunday, May 20, 2012

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Greg Canavan: The physical gold market -- from the weak to the strong

Section: Daily Dispatches

1p ET Saturday, May 19, 2012

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Writing for the Australian edition of the Daily Reckoning, financial letter editor Greg Canavan explains how gold becomes scarcer even as the price of gold futures contracts -- paper gold -- is falling. He adds that governments try to control the gold price and thereby earns his tin-foil hat.

Jesse's Cafe Americain dismisses Doug Casey's 'canard'

Section: Daily Dispatches

9:50p ET Friday, May 18, 2012

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Jesse at Jesse's Cafe Americain today dismisses Doug Casey's skepticism about gold market manipulation. Jesse writes, "Anyone who can trot out the canard that a 'market is too big to be manipulated' does not engage my interest for very long." Jesse's commentary is posted here:

Andy Borowitz on the phoniness of the financial markets

Section: Daily Dispatches

5:10p ET Friday, May 18, 2012

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

People wouldn't be investing in the monetary metals if they hadn't already concluded that the financial markets are now best described by the old song:

It's a Barnum & Bailey world,
Just as phony as it can be.

Only market manipulation props up Facebook IPO at first day's close

Section: Daily Dispatches

Facebook Off to Faltering Public Start

By April Dembosky and Telis Demos
Financial Times, London
Friday, May 18, 2012

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/c7bfd916-a113-11e1-9fbd-00144feabdc0.html

Davies says gold smash is over; Sprott sees bank runs

Section: Daily Dispatches

4:30p ET Friday, May 18, 2012

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

At King World News, gold fund manager Ben Davies describes what he sees as the mechanisms of the recent gold and silver smashdown and explains why he thinks it's over:

http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2012/5/18_Be...

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