Daily Dispatches

The U.S. Mint's lame excuse for rationing gold and silver coins

Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2010-07-26 21:21 Section: Daily Dispatches

9:14p ET Monday, July 26, 2010

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold (and Silver):

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FOFOA: Lease rates falsified to hide gold backwardation

Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2010-07-26 21:08 Section: Daily Dispatches

9p ET Monday, July 26, 2010

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

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Adrian Douglas: LBMA restores access to gold, silver clearing data

Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2010-07-26 16:22 Section: Daily Dispatches

By Adrian Douglas
Monday, July 26, 2010

My essay yesterday, "The LBMA Joins the Gold Squeeze Cover-Up" (http://www.gata.org/node/8858), was written after I attempted to access gold and silver clearing statistics at the London Bullion Market Association Internet site and encountered a password-protected log-in screen that allowed access only to members.

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Ambrose Evans-Pritchard: Reflections on the death of paper money

Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2010-07-25 18:40 Section: Daily Dispatches

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
The Telegraph, London
Sunday, July 25, 2010

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/790943...

As they prepare for holiday reading in Tuscany, City bankers are buying up rare copies of an obscure book on the mechanics of Weimar inflation published in 1974.

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India warned of stagflation risk as price of food soars

Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2010-07-25 18:28 Section: Daily Dispatches

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
The Telegraph, London
Sunday, July 25, 2010

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/globalbusiness/7909557/India-warned-o...

As David Cameron leads a giant delegation of British businessman to India, the tiger economy is facing the worst overheating crisis in a decade and may have to jam on the brakes.

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Adrian Douglas: The LBMA joins the gold squeeze cover-up

Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2010-07-25 17:31 Section: Daily Dispatches

By Adrian Douglas
Sunday, July 25, 2010

The London Bullion Market Association has just taken the highly unusual step of blocking access to statistics relating to the trading activities of its member bullion banks. This information has been available to the public since 1997 but as of this week it is available only to LBMA members. (See http://www.lbma.org.uk.)