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GATA exposed it all in 2021, but is it making any difference?
1:33p Monday, December 20, 2021
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
For establishing the rigging of the gold market by governments and central banks, 2021 may have been GATA's best year yet.
We produced an updated comprehensive summary of the history and components of gold price control policy --
-- and our consultant Stuart Englert's book, "Rigged: Exposing the Largest Financial Fraud in History" --
-- sold several thousand copies.
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Our consultant Robert Lambourne reviewed the monthly reports of the Bank for International Settlements and thus kept confirming the bank's constant surreptitious interventions in the gold market on behalf of its central bank members. No one else in the world does this work:
We highlighted the panic expressed by the London Bullion Market Association and the World Gold Council about the imminent implementation of the "Basel 3" regulations about gold derivatives --
https://www.gata.org/node/21134
-- and explained how governments and central banks could get around the new rules so they could keep rigging the gold market:
We repeatedly stressed the critical questions about gold market rigging that governments and central banks refuse to answer, refusals that are essentially confirmations of their market rigging:
https://www.gata.org/node/20089
GATA was ahead of most news organizations in publicizing the ever-growing number of fines imposed and settlements obtained for rigging the monetary metals markets.
Throughout the year GATA Chairman Bill Murphy and your secretary/treasurer gave interviews to keep the gold price suppression issue alive.
The market participants and touts who had been denying gold market manipulation without ever challenging the documentation GATA produced fell almost completely silent.
And after all this effort ... the gold price fell 4 1/2% and the silver price fell 13 1/2%, even as inflation exploded around the world.
This signified that governments, central banks, and their agents in the financial markets are still very much in control, even if their interventions are more brazen and obvious than ever.
For while GATA has been very successful in exposing these interventions, we have not had much success in making people care. Indeed, the success of gold market rigging by governments and central banks is essentially a matter of the refusal of 99.9% of the mining industry and mainstream financial news organizations to care.
Of course they have their reasons.
No industry is more vulnerable than the mining industry is to governments and the major banks that are formally government agents. Mining companies can't operate without all sorts of government permissions, and since mining is the most capital-intensive business, no mining company can operate for long without the support of those major banks.
The gold mining industry's purported representative, the World Gold Council, is very much opposed to the interest of gold investors, as signified by its partnership with the LBMA this year in opposing the "Basel 3" regulations.
As for the mainstream financial news organizations, they are just as understandably the tools of their biggest advertisers -- banks and financial service companies.
And while the gold price is a matter of the greatest geopolitical sensitivity and any nation with a substantial foreign exchange surplus could overthrow the gold price suppression scheme by exchanging government currencies for gold and removing it from the banking system in a big way, no nation has yet undertaken to do so -- not even Russia and China, which have admitted their knowledge of the scheme. That is, all governments are cooperating with it, even governments whose central banks have recently announced gold purchases, and even governments of gold-producing countries, developing countries that are rich countries insisting on remaining poor.
From its beginning GATA has presumed that gold price suppression policy could not withstand scrutiny, which should be self-evident, since this policy long has been implemented mostly in secret. That is, even the people and institutions behind gold price suppression policy fear having to account for it. But with their control of both the mining industry and mainstream financial journalism these policy makers have managed to prevent scrutiny.
GATA aims to continue anyway, if not out of faith that, as the Bible says, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free" -- after all, the Bible doesn't say when you'll be made free -- then out of spite arising from the cheating, expropriation, and tyranny that gold market rigging represents.
Maybe our cause is futile, but maybe it isn't, and in any case it occasionally requires some financial support. We have not asked for help in a long time and had not wanted to ask until we had some success to show for our efforts, as reflected in monetary metals prices. But as this is the season of giving, maybe our appeal will not be resented too much.
So if you endorse GATA's work and have not supported us before, please consider doing it now by visiting the "How to Help" page at our internet site:
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With best wishes for a golden new year.
CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer
Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.
CPowell@GATA.org
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