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Disconnect between metal futures and physical is now extreme, Maguire reports

Section: Daily Dispatches

1:15p ET Thursday, December 20, 2012

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Going for gold? Don't forget the vault

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By Clementine Wallop
The Wall Street Journal
Thursday, December 20, 2012

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732446160457819084137470416...

Investors in Asia are increasingly dealing with a seemingly anachronistic problem: finding a place to stash their bars of gold.

Leeb talks gold market manipulation and gold backing for China's yuan

Section: Daily Dispatches

4:13p ET Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Fund manager Stephen Leeb today discussed gold market manipulation with King World News and disclosed that a Chinese diplomat recently told him that China is accumulating gold for the purpose of backing its currency.

Lars Schall: Bundesbank refuses candid and complete answers about gold

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2:08p ET Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The German financial writer Lars Schall today elaborates on how the Bundesbank keeps refusing to provide candid and complete answers to specific questions about its involvement in the gold market. Schall's commentary is headlined "The Whole Ball Game: They Can't Talk About It" and it's posted at his Internet site here:

U.S. govt.'s bullion bank agents selling gold to defend dollar, Maguire says

Section: Daily Dispatches

1:48p ET Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

U.S. government agents are selling paper gold in defense of the dollar while Asian buyers sit back and take the discount on the metal, silver market whistleblower tells King World News today. An excerpt from the interview is posted at the King World News blog here:

'Capital Account' program with GATA's Murphy and Powell posted at SilverSeek

Section: Daily Dispatches

7:05p ET Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Video of today's appearance by GATA Chairman Bill Murphy and your secretary/treasurer on Russia Today's "Capital Account" with Lauren Lyster has been posted at GoldSeek's companion Internet site, SilverSeek, here:

Geithner was told of Libor fears in 2008

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Shahien Nasiripour
Financial Times, London
Tuesday, December 18, 2012

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/8e0d9282-4931-11e2-b25b-00144feab49a.html

WASHINGTON -- The Federal Reserve Bank of New York was warned as early as mid-2008 that banks may have been misreporting their Libor borrowing rate to aid their own trading positions, much earlier than previously known.

James Turk: Auditors, not queen, should have visited Bank of England gold vault

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5:45p ET Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

In the second installment of his interview today with King World News, GoldMoney founder and GATA consultant James Turk says that Queen Elizabeth should not have been sent into the Bank of England's gold vault -- some auditors should have been. An excerpt from the interview is posted at the King World News blog here:

Kitco analyst begins to wonder about gold market manipulation

Section: Daily Dispatches

2:50p ET Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The afternoon metals market roundup by Jim Wyckoff at Kitco News takes note of growing suspicion of manipulation in the gold market. Wyckoff writes:

West can't stop flow of gold into Asia, Turk tells King World News

Section: Daily Dispatches

2:16p ET Tuesday, December 18, 2012

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