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

Submitted by cpowell on Sat, 2013-03-30 21:27 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

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Can bitcoin compete with government currencies?

Submitted by cpowell on Fri, 2013-03-29 15:13 Section: Daily Dispatches

3:12p ET Friday, March 29, 2013

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

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

Submitted by cpowell on Fri, 2013-03-29 15:00 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...

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Grant Williams tells Hong Kong conference about gold price suppression

Submitted by cpowell on Fri, 2013-03-29 08:30 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

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Rick Rule draws three profound lessons from the Cyprus debacle

Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2013-03-27 22:21 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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Ambrose Evans-Pritchard: Cyprus has killed the myth that EMU is benign

Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2013-03-27 21:57 Section: Daily Dispatches

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
The Telegraph, London
Wednesday, March 27, 2013

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/995799...

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The gold price isn't irrelevant but financial journalism is

Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2013-03-27 16:57 Section: Daily Dispatches

5:16p ET Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

In pursuit of democracy, limited and accountable government, and free and transparent markets, GATA is up against central banks, the most powerful institutions on the planet. But they are not so much the problem, as their power is based largely on surreptitiousness and it will crumble when it is exposed.

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Russia, South Africa seek to create OPEC-style platinum bloc

Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2013-03-27 14:46 Section: Daily Dispatches

By Ilya Arkhipov and Franz Wild
Bloomberg News
Wednesday, March 27, 2013

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-26/russia-south-africa-seek-to-cre...

Russia and South Africa, countries that hold about 80 percent of platinum group metal reserves, plan to set up an OPEC-type trading bloc to coordinate exports.