Daily Dispatches

World Gold Council affects not to understand central banking

Submitted by cpowell on Fri, 2009-04-24 11:47 Section: Daily Dispatches

11:47a ET Friday, April 24, 2009

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Rob Mackinlay of InvestEgate in London this week put a few questions about gold price manipulation to an official of the World Gold Council and got predictably disappointing answers.

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China confirms it has been buying lots of gold since 2003

Submitted by cpowell on Fri, 2009-04-24 11:22 Section: Daily Dispatches

China Confirms Talk by Unveiling Big Pot of Gold

By Alfred Cang and Tom Miles
Reuters
Friday, April 24, 2009

http://www.reuters.com/article/ousivMolt/idUSTRE53N18T20090424

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Adrian Douglas: GFMS publishes a sham against silver

Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2009-04-23 23:17 Section: Daily Dispatches

By Adrian Douglas
Thursday, April 23, 2009

GFMS has issued a 41-page report on the silver market:

http://www.silverinstitute.org/pr22apr09.php

It is a complete sham -- misinformation and garbage.

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GATA consultant Kirby joins Bullion Custodial Services

Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2009-04-22 23:22 Section: Daily Dispatches

11:16p ET Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold (and Silver):

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Amid financial crisis, nobody's home at CFTC

Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2009-04-22 22:34 Section: Daily Dispatches

CFTC Light on Leadership as Congress Drafts Regulatory Reform

By Sarah N. Lynch
Dow Jones Newswires
via EasyBourse.com, Paris
Wednesday, April 22, 2009

http://www.easybourse.com/bourse-actualite/marches/cftc-light-on-leaders...

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Ted Butler: Silver has vital part in solar power development

Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2009-04-22 12:14 Section: Daily Dispatches

12:13p ET Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold (and Silver):

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Dan Norcini: The real gold market speaks

Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2009-04-22 11:58 Section: Daily Dispatches

By Dan Norici
www.JSMineset.com
Tuesday, April 21, 2009

http://www.jsmineset.com/

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ECB sold gold and bought dollars -- but it's not intervention

Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2009-04-21 18:42 Section: Daily Dispatches

6:32p ET Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Not much is more disingenuous than central banking, as the Reuters story appended here suggests. The story reports how the European Central Bank sold gold in 2008 and purchased U.S. dollars with the proceeds, even as the story also reports that the bank "confirmed that it had not intervened in currency markets in 2008."

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Gary North: Why gold owners are government's targets

Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2009-04-21 15:13 Section: Daily Dispatches

3:10p ET Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

A recent essay by financial letter editor Gary North, "Why Gold Owners Are Targets of the Government," is a pretty good summary of the gold-price suppressing tactics of the central banks that GATA long has been publicizing. You can find it at North's Internet site here:

http://www.garynorth.com/public/4857.cfm