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Embry mocks disinformation at Kitco, cites pervasive corruption

Section: Daily Dispatches

12:35p ET Monday, September 28, 2015

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Sprott Asset Management's John Embry, interviewed today by King World News, mocks the usual disinformation from Kitco News and cites the Volkswagen scandal as emblematic of the corruption pervading the world. His interview is excerpted at the KWN blog here:

It's all 'perverted' now as U.S. swap spreads tumble below zero

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Liz McCormick
Bloomberg News
Monday, September 28, 2015

At the height of the financial crisis, the unprecedented decline in swap rates below Treasury yields was seen as an anomaly. The phenomenon is now widespread.

How Sweden's negative interest-rates experiment has turned economics on its head

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Peter Spence
The Telegraph, London
Sunday, September 27, 2015

It has long been believed that when it comes to interest rates, zero is as low as you can go. Who would choose to keep their money in the bank if they had to pay for the privilege?

Switzerland probes banks over precious metals price fixing

Section: Daily Dispatches

From The Telegraph, London
Monday, September 28, 2015

Swiss competition authorities are investigating HSBC, Barclays, Deutsche Bank, and four other banks on suspicion of price fixing in the precious metals market.

Investor lawsuits pile up claiming U.S. Treasury market is rigged

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Joe Rennison
Financial Times, London
Monday, September 28, 2015

NEW YORK -- Investors have filed a flurry of court cases claiming banks and brokers have been rigging the Treasury bond market and increasing the cost of selling debt for the US government.

Metals and Minerals Trading Corp. to produce, market India's sovereign gold coins

Section: Daily Dispatches

Dillip Satapathy
Business Standard, New Delhi
Monday, September 28, 2015

BHUBANESWAR, India -- Metals and Minerals Trading Corp., under the Union commerce ministry, will manufacture and market sovereign gold coins in India and abroad.

Indian government may not ask questions about gold submitted for paperizing

Section: Daily Dispatches

Government to Make Gold Monetisation Scheme Attractive Before Launch

From the Deccan Herald
Bangalore, India
Monday, September 28, 2015

The more markets are 'financialized,' the more central banks can rig them

Section: Daily Dispatches

9:30p ET Saturday, September 26, 2015

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Perth Mint research director Bron Suchecki today elaborates on the Physical Gold Fund's interview with an unidentified Swiss gold refinery executive, which GATA called to your attention Wednesday --

http://www.gata.org/node/15767

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