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Belgium's central bank reports that 10% of its gold reserves are loaned out
Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2013-05-28 09:05 Section: Daily Dispatches6a PT Tuesday, May 28, 2013
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
GoldCore's Mark O'Byrne reports today the disclosure by Belgium's central bank that 10 percent of its gold reserves are out on loan and that the bank is gradually contracting its gold loans after selling three-quarters of its gold reserves in the 1990s:
Grant Williams: The gold price is not the price of gold
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2013-05-27 14:58 Section: Daily Dispatches11:58a PT Monday, May 27, 2013
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Fort Knox, Fort Hocks, or Fort Shocks: Three U.S. gold scenarios
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2013-05-27 14:02 Section: Daily Dispatches11a PT Monday, May 27, 2013
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
The 24hGold Internet site has reposted a wonderful commentary from 2009 by Stewart Dougherty that outlines the likely consequences of the various scenarios about the disposition of the U.S. gold reserve.
Central banks boosted gold holdings in April
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2013-05-27 13:53 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Clementine Wallop and Rhiannon Hoyle
The Wall Street Journal
Monday, May 27, 2013
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732385580457850822360187040...
GoldMoney's James Turk refutes Warren Buffett on gold
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2013-05-27 13:11 Section: Daily Dispatches10:09a PT Monday, May 27, 2013
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
In commentary headlined "Warren Buffett on Gold," GoldMoney's James Turk refutes the celebrity investor's disparagement of the monetary metal, which, Turk shows, maintains purchasing power and security better than government currencies do. Turk's commentary is posted at GoldMoney here:
Alasdair Macleod: The geopolitics of gold
Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2013-05-26 11:58 Section: Daily Dispatches8:57a PT Sunday, May 26, 2013
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Gold is the battlefield between East and West, GoldMoney research director Alasdair Macleod writes today, with the East using the monetary metal to hedge its exposure to Western currencies and Western central banks nearly out of the metal necessary to control the price through the derivatives system.
John Browne: Is gold's fall the Fed's doing?
Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2013-05-26 11:44 Section: Daily DispatchesBy John Browne
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Saturday, May 25, 2013
http://triblive.com/business/brownebusiness/4052784-74/gold-fed-dollar#a...
Asked what makes the United States the most powerful country, many readers likely would reply the military. In fact, it is the dollar.
Gerald Celente tells King World News about the two worlds of gold
Submitted by cpowell on Sat, 2013-05-25 20:48 Section: Daily Dispatches5:45p PT Saturday, May 25, 2013
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Financial writer Gerald Celente today tells King World News that there are two gold markets, the manipulated paper market and the physical market, and two gold worlds, the world that is manipulating gold and the world that is buying gold. An excerpt from the interview is posted at the King World News blog here:
What about government's 'uncontrolled passion' for inflation?
Submitted by cpowell on Sat, 2013-05-25 12:42 Section: Daily DispatchesContain Uncontrolled Passion for Gold: Chidambaram to Countrymen
From Press Trust of India
via The Indian Express, Mumbai
Saturday, May 25, 2013
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/contain-uncontrolled-passion-for-gold-...
Ted Butler: Busting the perfect crime
Submitted by cpowell on Sat, 2013-05-25 12:29 Section: Daily Dispatches9:24a ET Saturday, May 25, 2013
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