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Alasdair Macleod: Cyprus triggers preference for goods

Section: Daily Dispatches

7:06p ET Sunday, March 31, 2013

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Is bitcoin a better hedge, freer from government market rigging than gold?

Section: Daily Dispatches

8:23a ET Sunday, March 31, 2013

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Is bitcoin a better hedge against currency devaluation than gold is because its issuance is tightly regulated and the market for it is less vulnerable to manipulation by government?

Currency auction puts Venezuela through new devaluation

Section: Daily Dispatches

Venezuela's Move Seen as Currency Devaluation

From Agence France-Presse
via Yahoo News
Sunday, March 31, 2013

http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/venezuela-move-seen-currency-devaluatio...

A Venezuelan government foreign currency auction for local importers has triggered a de-facto currency devaluation, the second in less than 50 days, analysts said.

Jim Sinclair's next gold market seminar to be held in Toronto on April 11

Section: Daily Dispatches

9:25p ET Saturday, March 30, 2013

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Gold trader and mining entrepreneur Jim Sinclair will hold his next gold market seminar on Thursday, April 11, in Toronto. Details are posted at his Internet site, JSMineSet.com, here:

http://www.jsmineset.com/2013/03/30/toronto-qa-meeting-announced-april-1...

CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer

Can bitcoin compete with government currencies?

Section: Daily Dispatches

3:12p ET Friday, March 29, 2013

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Turkey trading gold with Iran again; gold ETFs examined on 10th anniversary

Section: Daily Dispatches

2:59p ET Friday, March 29, 2013

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Reuters says Turkey has resumed its trade of gold to Iran in exchange for natural gas:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/29/turkey-iran-sanctions-idUSL5N0...

Grant Williams tells Hong Kong conference about gold price suppression

Section: Daily Dispatches

8:33a ET Friday, March 29, 2013

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Grant Williams, portfolio adviser to Vulpes Investment Management in Singapore and editor of the Things That Make You Go Hmmm. ... newsletter --

http://www.vulpesinvest.com/announce/index.html

Rick Rule draws three profound lessons from the Cyprus debacle

Section: Daily Dispatches

10:17p ET Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Interviewed today by King World News, Sprott Asset Management's Rick Rule draws three profound lessons from the debacle in Cyprus:

"1) That ultimately, given the leveraged nature of the system, deposit insurance is just another social promise that won't be able to be kept.

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