Daily Dispatches

7:44p ET Monday, March 10, 2014

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The Russian-language and pro-Russian Internet news organization, Iskra ("Spark") News in Zaporozhye, eastern Ukraine, which perhaps has taken its name from the early socialist newspaper founded by Lenin --

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iskra

3:50p ET Monday, March 10, 2014

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GATA Chairman Bill Murphy will join oil and gas entrepreneur T. Boone Pickens, Sprott Asset Managent's Rick Rule, and nine other expert speakers at the Porter Stansberry Natural Resources Conference in Dallas on Saturday, May 31. Only 200 seats are available. The conference's Internet site with registration information is here:

3p ET Monday, March 10, 2014

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

2:24p ET Monday, March 10, 2014

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Doubting that real money can ever be created out of thin air, today's New York Sun editorial directs skepticism equally at bitcoin and government currencies. The Sun's editorial is headlined "Satoshi Nakamoto's Silence" and it's posted at the Sun's Internet site here:

2:11p ET Monday, March 10, 2014

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

1:50p ET Monday, March 10, 2014

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Interviewed today by King World News, Sprott Asset Management's John Embry laments the disinformation that passes for mainstream financial news reporting on the gold market:

http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2014/3/10_Em...

11:40a ET Monday, March 10, 2014

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The TF Metals Report's Turd Ferguson today examines the gold futures trading data for major banks going back to the prehistoric era and finds the most important development to have been JPMorganChase's switch from short to long in gold, even as most other investment houses remain short.

11:25a ET Monday, March 10, 2014

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

What would it really mean if it was ever acknowledged that gold and silver prices have been manipulated -- that is, suppressed -- for years?

By Keri Geiger and Silla Brush
Bloomberg News
Monday, March 10, 2014

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating whether currency traders at the world's biggest banks distorted prices for options and exchange-traded funds by rigging benchmark foreign-exchange rates, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.

By Jamie McGeever and Carmel Crimmins
Reuters
Friday, March 7, 2014