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GATA Chairman Murphy rebuts defense of gold lending
5:41p ET Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
The Huffington Post has posted an essay by GATA Chairman Bill Murphy in reply to an essay by banker Warren Mosler posted there this week asserting that central banks lease gold to earn money rather than to suppress gold's price.
Mosler's defense of gold leasing was practically the first to be repudiated years ago by central bankers themselves -- particularly by Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan in testimony to Congress in July 1998 and by William S. White, head of the monetary and economic department of the Bank for International Settlements in a speech at a BIS conference in Basel, Switzerland, in July 2005.
Greenspan urged Congress not to regulate derivatives, remarking famously: "Central banks stand ready to lease gold in increasing quantities should be price rise":
http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/testimony/1998/19980724.htm
White explained that one of the five major purposes of central bank cooperation is "the provision of international credits and joint efforts to influence asset prices (especially gold and foreign exchange) in circumstances where this might be thought useful":
Murphy writes that GATA doesn't object to gold leasing in itself but rather to the gold price suppression scheme for which leasing has been vastly overused. His essay is headlined "Our Response to Warren Mosler on Gold Lending" and you can find it at The Huffington Post here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-murphy/our-response-to-warren-mo_b_52...
CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer
Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.
Prophecy Resource Corp. Appoints Rob McEwen to Advisory Board
Prophecy Resource Corp. (TSX.V: PCY, OTC: PCYRF) is pleased to announce the appointment of Rob McEwen to the company's Advisory Board. McEwen is a leading Canadian mining industry entrepreneur. He is the chairman and CEO of U.S. Gold Corp. and Minera Andes Inc. McEwen was the founder and former chairman and CEO of Goldcorp Inc., whose Red Lake Mine in northwestern Ontario, Canada, is considered to be the richest gold mine in the world. During his tenure at Goldcorp, McEwen transformed the company from a collection of small companies into a mining powerhouse, growing its market capitalization from $50 million to approximately $8 billion.
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http://www.prophecyresource.com/news_2010_mar11b.php
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Preliminary Feasibility Study Completed for Seabridge Gold's KSM Project
Study Reports Reserves of 30.2 Million Oz. Gold, 7 Billion Lbs. Copper,
133 Million Oz Silver, 210 Million Lbs. Molybdenum
Base Case Life of Mine Cash Operating Costs Estimated at $144/oz. Gold Produced
(Net of Base Metal Credits)
Toronto -- Seabridge Gold Inc. has announced results from a National Instrument 43-101 compliant preliminary feasibility study of its 100-percent owned KSM project in northern British Columbia, Canada. The study was prepared by Wardrop, a Tetra Tech company, a major international engineering and consulting firm.
Seabridge President and CEO Rudi Fronk says, "The study confirms that the KSM project now hosts the largest gold reserve in Canada and one of the largest in the world. KSM is projected to provide an extraordinary mine life of more than 35 years with estimated cash operating costs well below the current average of the major gold producers. Estimated capital costs are in line with those of comparable, large-scale, undeveloped gold-copper projects and KSM has the advantage of being located in a low-risk jurisdiction."
For the complete Seabridge Gold statement:
http://www.seabridgegold.net/readmore.php?newsid=283
