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Here come competitive devaluations, and then gold may rise in other currencies
5:20p ET Wednesday, December 1, 2004
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Progress often comes very slowly, so it's a
thrill whenever you can notice it, as with
Newmont Mining President Pierre Lassonde's
speech Monday to the San Francisco Gold and
Precious Metals Conference.
The speech was transcribed by Resource
Investor's Tim Wood, who quoted Lassonde as
recognizing GATA indirectly:
"Gold today is as close to a currency as you will
ever see. ... Our view is ... the American dollar
has got to go down. The dollar has been the best
export that the U.S. has ever manufactured.
"The central banks of the world today have got
2.1 trillion of those dollars. The question is:
If they just stop buying, that's enough to send
the dollar down by 50 percent. If they start
selling, it's going to get even worse.
"We don't think it's going to go there because
... when we look at China and Japan in
particular, they want the economy to continue
exporting, so if there's anything that's managed
in the world, it's those two currencies.
"Some people have gold conspiracies. I don't
know about that. The one thing I do know is that
those currencies are managed currencies and
they are probably going to let them revalue
against the dollar but in a very stepwise way."
That is, the president of the biggest mining
company has just told a big mining industry
conference that 1) gold is a currency,
2) central banks rig the currency markets,
3) "some people" think that the central banks
have been rigging the market for gold -- also
a currency -- as well; and 4) he's not sure.
Coming from someone who, like Lassonde, has
spent most of a lifetime in the gold business,
this may not seem like much more than
acknowledging the obvious a few years late. On
the other hand, it's a damned sight better than
Dennis Gartman's famous and fatuous remark --
"Conspiracies rarely exist" -- and better than
the mining industry establishment's sneer that
GATA Chairman Bill Murphy is "a #@&%*>@."
Murphy may indeed be all that, but when it comes
to the rigging of the gold market, he also happens
to have been right from the start. And now the
president of the biggest mining company in the
world, Pierre Lassonde, slowly and cautiously,
has been compelled to accept the possibility.
You can find Resource Investor's transcript of
Lassonde's speech here:
http://www.resourceinvestor.com/pebble.asp?relid=7219
CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer
Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.
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