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Gene Arensberg: Comex commercials pile on shorts in gold

Section: Daily Dispatches

12:09p ET Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold (and Silver):

Gene Arensberg's Got Gold Report reports today that the big commercial traders have greatly increased their short positions in gold but that silver still looks less opposed by the big shorts. His commentary is headlined "Comex Commercials Piled on Short Gold Futures" and you can find it here:

China FX custodian wants world to think it won't buy much gold, silver, oil

Section: Daily Dispatches

... At least not until China has obtained surreptitiously all the gold, silver, and oil it wants.

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China Urges U.S. to Boost Confidence in Debt, Dollar

By Zhou Xin and Koh Gui Qing
Reuters
Wednesday, July 20, 2011

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/20/china-us-idUSL3E7IK18420110720

Gold breakout and subsequent trading encouraging, Hathaway tells KWN

Section: Daily Dispatches

10a ET Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold (and Silver):

Gene Arensberg: Are the big gold and silver shorts being overrun?

Section: Daily Dispatches

10:33p ET Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GATA's London conference nears capacity but there's still a little room

Section: Daily Dispatches

11:53a ET Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GATA's Gold Rush 2011 conference at the Savoy Hotel in London from Thursday-Saturday, August 4-6, is getting crowded, perhaps because pg its speaker roster, 20 of the top minds in the monetary metals and world financial system. (Then there's GATA Chairman Bill Murphy and your secretary/treasurer. We'll try to be brief.)

Hyperinflation to devalue debt is pols' only way out, Embry says

Section: Daily Dispatches

11:17a ET Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold (and Silver):

The world's debt can no longer be carried by income, hyperinflation to devalue the debt is the only way out for political authorities, and triple-digit silver is probable, Sprott Asset Management's John Embry tells King World News today. An excerpt from the interview can be found here:

Geologist, investment letter writer Badiali is persuaded that gold is manipulated

Section: Daily Dispatches

8:30a ET Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Geologist and investment letter writer Matt Badiali this week tells Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report that the gold market is manipulated but remains a great investment. Here's the exchange:

Larry Edelson: Bernanke out of bullets? Heck, no!

Section: Daily Dispatches

10:43p ET Monday, July 18, 2011

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Gensler's struggles mark regulatory changes

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Deborah Solomon
The Wall Street Journal
Tuesday, July 19, 2011

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230456760457645436420419032...

When the Dodd-Frank financial-regulation overhaul became law last July, Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Gary Gensler raced to implement new rules assigned to the agency.

Tidal wave of short covering ahead, Turk tells King World News

Section: Daily Dispatches

6:48p ET Monday, July 18, 2011

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold (and Silver):

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