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Ambrose Evans-Pritchard: A new gold standard is being born

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
The Telegraph, London
Thursday, January 17, 2013

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/ambroseevans-pritchard/100022332/a-...

The world is moving step by step towards a de-facto gold standard, without any meetings of G20 leaders to announce the idea or bless the project.

The Limerick King finds Ponzi in the gold vault

Section: Daily Dispatches

9:25a PT Thursday, January 17, 2013

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The Limerick King, who haunts the incomparable Zero Hedge Internet site, has captured in five short lines of doggerel what it has taken GATA more than a decade to figure out:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/expd/8388391029/

Ponzi can surely attest
The gold in the vault is the best.
But then he checked leases

Gold revaluation really isn't a silly idea at all, Mr. Cashin

Section: Daily Dispatches

9a PT Thursday, January 17, 2013

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Business Insider today quotes UBS market director Art Cashin, a frequent analyst on CNBC, as ridiculing the idea of gold revaluation to improve the financial position of the U.S. government:

http://www.businessinsider.com/art-cashin-reprice-gold-to-address-debt-c...

Suspicion of impairment of German gold sneaks into Washington Post

Section: Daily Dispatches

Germany to Bring Home Some of its Gold Reserves

By Michael Birnbaum
Washington Post
Wednesday, January 16, 2013

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/germany-to-bring-home-some-of-its-go...

Sinclair, Barron, and Leeb on the Bundesbank's strange gold move

Section: Daily Dispatches

3:50p ET January 16, 2013

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Comment is flowing in on the Bundesbank's plan to repatriate all of a fifth of its gold held at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York over the next seven years.

Jim Sinclair argues that the move is retaliation by the euro bloc for U.S. attacks on gold that hamper the euro bloc's strategy for strengthening its new currency:

Turd Ferguson: German gold hijinx

Section: Daily Dispatches

1p ET Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

To recover just a small part of Germany's gold, Bundesbank will need 7 years

Section: Daily Dispatches

9:14a ET Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The Deutsche Bundesbank's plan announced today to repatriate some of Germany's gold reserves from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York is so incomplete and slow as to increase, not diminish, doubt that all the gold is really available.

Monetary metals recovered from paper slam in just a week, Turk notes

Section: Daily Dispatches

10:15p ET Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

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