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Why do some nations hold more gold?

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By Will Railton
City AM, London
Wednesday, December 7, 2016

As an asset, gold is entirely speculative. It provides no income or dividends and has few industrial or medical applications. Investors buy it only in the confidence that humans' peculiar and enduring fascination with the lustrous metal will ensure its value through the decades and centuries to come.

Koos Jansen: Gold in London and Hong Kong is used to settle Comex futures

Section: Daily Dispatches

2:27p ET Wednesday, December 7, 2016

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

On Kitco News, GATA chairman discusses government attacks on monetary metals

Section: Daily Dispatches

12:36p ET Wednesday, December 7, 2016

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Turkey's president urges people to favor lira and gold to end 'tyranny of the dollar'

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Turks Urged to Trust in Lira to Defeat 'Ttyranny of Dollar'

By Mehul Srivastava and Jonathan Wheatley
Financial Times, London
Wednesday, December 7, 2016

Brussels to fine three banks over Euribor rate rigging

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Rochelle Toplensky and Martin Arnold
Financial Times, London
Tuesday, December 6, 2016

Brussels on Wednesday will hit HSBC, JPMorgan, and Credit Agricole with multimillion-euro fines for rigging the Euribor interest rate benchmark, closing a five-year cartel probe into a scandal that shook the financial world.

Governments, financial press falsify economic conditions, Embry tells KWN

Section: Daily Dispatches

12:37p ET Tuesday, December 6, 2016

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Governments and financial news organizations are falsifying the condition of the world's economy, Sprott Asset Management's John Embry tells King World News today, and the price action in the monetary metals is "ludicrous." Embry's comments are excerpted at KWN here:

King Report: Market rigging strives to save disintegrating Europe

Section: Daily Dispatches

From The King Report
Burr Ridge, Illinois
Tuesday, December 6, 2016

As always when a political event occurs, be alert for central bank intervention.

Someone intervened in European stocks before European bourses opened Monday. Unlike previous interventions, the Brexit and Italian referendum manipulations are intended to save the European Union, not just banks or stocks.

CFTC leaves shaping position limits rule to Trump administration

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Andrew Ackerman and Alexander Osipovich
The Wall Street Journal
Tuesday, December 6, 2016

WASHINGTON -- U.S. regulators failed to put the finishing touches on a much-debated, long-delayed rule to limit speculation in commodities like oil and gold, opting instead to propose a scaled-back version that leaves its outcome in the hands of the Trump administration.

Bill Holter: Fake news, fake markets

Section: Daily Dispatches

8:25p ET Monday, December 5, 2016

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Market analyst Bill Holter cites GATA's work today in his latest commentary at Jim Sinclair's JSMineSet.com, commentary headlined "Fake News, Fake Markets."

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