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GATA's London conference described in Anglo Far-East market letter

Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2011-09-01 19:45 Section: Daily Dispatches

7:37p ET Thursday, September 1, 2011

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Longtime GATA supporter Anglo Far-East Bullion Co. was well-represented at GATA's Gold Rush 2011 conference in London a month ago and reports about it at length in its monthly market letter, the Global Insider, which you can find here:

http://www.gata.org/files/AngloFarEastGlobalInsiderAugust2011.pdf

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New York Sun: Looking forward to gold

Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2011-09-01 18:21 Section: Daily Dispatches

6:16p ET Thursday, September 1, 2011

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Today's editorial in the New York Sun celebrates the rapidly growing consideration of returning the United States to the use of gold as currency, an idea acknowledged at length this week by the cable news network CNBC. The Sun's editorial is headlined "Looking Forward to Gold" and you can find it here:

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Phantom gold haunts GLD vault tour

Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2011-09-01 15:28 Section: Daily Dispatches

By Joe Morris
Financial Times, London
Thursday, September 1, 2011

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/d90e9d80-d4ac-11e0-a7ac-00144feab49a.html

The SPDR Gold Trust (GLD) may have sought to defuse conspiracy theorists by opening up its massive London gold vault to CNBC, but instead it opened up a new line of inquiry.

In the segment --

http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000043030

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Swiss franc jumps as economy minister dismisses intervention

Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2011-08-31 21:41 Section: Daily Dispatches

By Nick Olivari and Julie Haviv
Reuters
Wednesday, August 31, 2011

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/31/markets-forex-idUSN1E77U1E3201...

NEW YORK -- The Swiss franc jumped against the euro and the dollar on Wednesday after a top Swiss government official said the nation would have to live with a strong currency and the Swiss National Bank (SNB) stayed away from intervention.

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How exchange-traded fund GLD lets you pretend to own gold

Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2011-08-31 21:04 Section: Daily Dispatches

9:21p ET Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Doug Hornig of Casey Research yesterday did a pretty good job of confirming the old doubts about the major gold exchange-traded fund, the SPDR Gold Trust's GLD, whose operations long have been questioned by GATA, most expertly by our consultant, GoldMoney founder and Free Gold Money Report publisher James Turk:

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Emerging market central banks boost gold holdings in July

Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2011-08-31 20:05 Section: Daily Dispatches

By Amanda Cooper
Reuters
Wednesday, August 31, 2011

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/31/gold-cenbanks-idUSL5E7JV18N201...

LONDON -- Colombia joined the ranks of official-sector gold buyers in July for the first time in 13 years, along with Russia, mirroring the trend among emerging central banks to diversify their currency portfolios.

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WSJournal, NYTimes commentaries urge: Murder gold

Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2011-08-31 12:32 Section: Daily Dispatches

12:30p ET Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Commentaries in The Wall Street Journal today and The New York Times yesterday plainly confessed the emnity of government and financial institutions generally toward gold.