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Michael Snyder: People are realizing that LBMA system has little gold

Section: Daily Dispatches

11a ET Sunday, May 9, 2010

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Michael Snyder, editor of The Economic Collapse blog, writes this week:

Feds probing JPMorgan trades in silver pit

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Michael Gray
New York Post
Sunday, May 9, 2010

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/feds_probing_jpmorgan_trades_in_gZ...

Federal agents have launched parallel criminal and civil probes of JPMorgan Chase and its trading activity in the precious metals market, the Post has learned.

News media notice of metals market manipulation growing, Butler tells King

Section: Daily Dispatches

12:45p ET Saturday, May 8, 2010

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold (and Silver):

Criminal and civil probes under way into Morgan silver trading

Section: Daily Dispatches

11:25a ET Saturday, May 8, 2010

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold (and Silver):

The New York Post tomorrow will report that the U.S. Justice Department has begun a criminal investigation of JPMorgan Chase & Co. in regard to trading in the precious metals markets and that the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission has begun a civil investigation.

U.S. gold coin sales surge as investors flee risk

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Frank Tang
Reuters
Friday, May 7, 2010

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN0762739220100507

NEW YORK -- U.S. gold coin sales surged this week as the anxiety over a euro-zone debt crisis spilled over into the United States and as Thursday's sudden Wall Street collapse shook investors.

Gene Arensberg is surprised large commercials didn't get shorter

Section: Daily Dispatches

11p ET Friday, May 7, 2010

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold (and Silver):

In his "Got Gold Report COT Flash" tonight, Gene Arensberg expresses surprise that the large commercial traders did not get much shorter in gold and silver as the metals soared this week. Arensberg is watching for a breakout in silver. You can find the "Got Gold Report" flash here:

Former comptroller general speaks at CMRE on May 20

Section: Daily Dispatches

3:18p ET Friday, May 7, 2010

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

In Treasury report, shocking evidence of silver price suppression

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Adrian Douglas
Friday, May 7, 2010

The U.S. Treasury Department's Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has just released the Quarter 4 2009 bank derivatives report, which can be found here:

http://www.occ.treas.gov/ftp/release/2010-33a.pdf

James Turk looks at housing prices through a golden lens

Section: Daily Dispatches

10:22p ET Thursday, May 6, 2010

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GoldMoney founder and GATA consultant James Turk tonight examines housing prices through a gold lens to reclaim for gold its historic status as the best measure of prices generally. Turk's commentary is headlined "An Interesting Perspective on House Prices" and you can find it at the GoldMoney Internet site here:

Manipulation of precious-metals market under fire

Section: Daily Dispatches

10:12p ET Thursday, May 6, 2010

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Alex Newman has written for the New American magazine a report about the growing number of complaints against the U.S. government involving market manipulation. It cites GATA extensively. It's headlined "Manipulation of Precious-Metals Market Under Fire" and you can find it here:

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