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Craig Hemke: Comparing digital metals
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2017-11-16 15:35 Section: Daily Dispatches3:35p Thursday, November 17, 2017
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Writing for Sprott Money, the TF Metals Report's Craig Hemke marvels at how the volume of Comex silver futures contracts overwhelms the world's annual silver production, a disproportion unmatched by futures in other metals.
Hemke's commentary is headlined "Comparing Digital Metals" and it's posted at Sprott Money here:
Saudi regime expropriates detainees for their freedom
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2017-11-16 12:45 Section: Daily DispatchesSaudi Authorities Offer Freedom Deals to Princes and Businessmen
By Simeon Kerr
Financial Times, London
Thursday, November 16, 2017
Saudi authorities are negotiating settlements with princes and businessmen held over allegations of corruption, offering deals for the detainees to pay for their freedom, say people briefed on the discussions.
Twice burned -- how Mt. Gox's bitcoin customers could lose again
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2017-11-16 12:38 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Alexandra Harney and Steve Stecklow
Reuters
Thursday, November 16, 2017
TOKYO -- When Mt. Gox, the world's largest bitcoin trading exchange, collapsed in early 2014, more than 24,000 customers around the world lost access to hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of cryptocurrency and cash.
Bank said to be informing against co-conspirators in Treasury bond rigging
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2017-11-16 09:47 Section: Daily DispatchesWall St. Traders Secretly Used Chat Rooms to Rig Treasury Bond Prices, Lawsuit Says
By Kevin Dugan
New York Post
Thursday, November 16, 2017
Wall Street banks secretly shared client information in online chat rooms to rig auctions for the $14 trillion US Treasuries market, according to an explosive lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court on Wednesday.
BIS official urges accountability while his press office rejects it
Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2017-11-15 14:24 Section: Daily Dispatches2:33p ET Wednesday, November 15, 2017
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Even as the Bank for International Settlements was refusing on Tuesday to answer GATA's questions about the bank's activity in the gold market --
German Precious Metals Association honors GATA consultant Dimitri Speck
Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2017-11-15 13:39 Section: Daily Dispatches1:40p ET Wednesday, November 15, 2017
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Financial analyst and GATA consultant Dimitri Speck, author of "The Gold Cartel," has been given the German Precious Metals Association's Winged Sculpture prize, which is awarded annually to people or projects whose work has engaged the public with precious metals and related topics.
The bitcoin exchange CME plans to use for futures is down
Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2017-11-15 13:27 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Camila Russo
Bloomberg News
Wednesday, November 15, 2017
This is exactly what the bitcoin futures naysayers have been warning about: One of the exchanges which CME Group Inc. would use to price the contracts is having serious issues.
Get 2017's New Orleans Investment Conference on audio and video discs
Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2017-11-15 11:59 Section: Daily Dispatches12:07p Wednesday, November 15, 2017
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
If you missed GATA's presentation at the New Orleans Investment Conference, you can still see it and the others, as conference organizer Brien Lundin explains in the announcement appended here.
What did Greenspan mean about leasing gold if the price rose?
Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2017-11-15 10:53 Section: Daily DispatchesYou have to be pretty obtuse not to understand it.
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11:14a ET Wednesday, November 15, 2017
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Ed Steer's Gold and Silver Digest for today posted at GoldSeek
Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2017-11-14 20:56 Section: Daily Dispatches8:57p ET Tuesday, November 14, 2017
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Today's edition of GATA Board of Directors member Ed Steer's Gold and Silver Digest, headlined "JPMorgan's Silver Short Position Now at 195 Million Ounces" has been posted in the clear at GoldSeek here:
http://news.goldseek.com/GoldSeek/1510688397.php
CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer
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