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In KWN interview, Sprott discusses gold's improving prospects

Section: Daily Dispatches

5p ET Friday, December 4, 2015

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

No limits to central banking, ECB president declares

Section: Daily Dispatches

So tell us something we don't know.

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'There Cannot Be a Limit' to Stimulus, Says ECB President Mario Draghi

By Agence France-Presse
via The Telegraph, London
Friday, December 4, 2015

Mario Draghi has said the European Central Bank would intensify efforts to support the eurozone economy and boost inflation toward its 2-percent goal if necessary.

The mystery of the mayor's chain and its missing gold links

Section: Daily Dispatches

Another indication that while politicians inflate the money away they spirit the gold away.

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By Patrick Sawer
The Telegraph, London
Friday, December 4, 2015

It is an artifact that traditionally denotes the weighty responsibility of office and the recognition bestowed upon its holder by a town's citizens.

ISIS aspires to gold but uses U.S. dollar

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The main currency of Middle Eastern terrorists comes out of Washington, not out of gold mines.

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ISIS Is Obsessed with Gold Currency

From Cable News Network, New York
Friday, December 4, 2015

The Islamic State is hellbent on world domination -- and a return to real gold coins.

Indian government insists gold paperization scheme is voluntary

Section: Daily Dispatches

Gold Monetisation Scheme Purely Voluntary, Indian Government Says

By the Press Trust of India
via The Times of India, Mumbai
Saturday, December 5, 2015

NEW DELHI, India -- The gold monetisation scheme is purely voluntary for individuals and institutions and they can make their own decision to monetise their gold, the Finance Ministry today clarified.

Alasdair Macleod: The Fed's in a bind

Section: Daily Dispatches

2p ET Thursday, December 3, 2015

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

If the Federal Reserve really starts raising interest rates, ending decades of declining credit costs, it may prompt a vast change in world economic conditions, GoldMoney research director Alasdair Macleod writes today.

Goldman Sachs has plan for investment banks to issue their own currency

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Goldman Sachs Files Patent for Virtual Settlement Currency

By Jennifer Hughes
Financial Times, London
Thursday, December 3, 2015

Goldman Sachs has made a patent application for a cryptocurrency settlement system in a move that underlines bank hopes that the architecture behind bitcoin can revolutionise global payments.

India targets temple gold hoard to rescue monetization plan

Section: Daily Dispatches

Call it "paperization."

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By Rajendra Jadhav and Krishna N. Das
Reuters
Thursday, December 3, 2015

India is trying to persuade rich temples to deposit some of their gold hoards with banks to revive a plan to recycle tonnes of the precious metal and cut gold imports, sources said.

Fed uses leaks to 'steer market expectations,' study finds

Section: Daily Dispatches

UC Berkeley Professor, Research Team Find Evidence of Information Leaks by Fed

By Anderson Lanham
The Daily Californian
Berkeley, California
Monday, November 30, 2015

http://www.dailycal.org/2015/11/30/uc-berkeley-professor-research-team-f...

At London conference Tocqueville's Hathaway denounces Comex

Section: Daily Dispatches

10:45a ET Wednesday, December 2, 2015

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Reporting from the Mines and Money conference in London, Sharps Pixley's Lawrie Williams writes that the Tocqueville Gold Fund's John Hathaway denounced the New York Commodities Exchange's gold contract as "fiction -- a casino for paper gold."

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