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Panic setting in with another Comex silver margin increase?

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12:56a ET Thursday, May 5, 2011

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold (and Silver):

Hinde Capital's Ben Davies interviewed by King World News

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12:44a ET Thursday, May 5, 2011

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold (and Silver):

This week's King World News interview with Hinde Capital CEO Ben Davies covers the gold and silver markets and notes the effect that scrap metal can have -- once -- on a rising price. The interview is about 15 minutes long and you can listen to it at King World News here:

What's gold really worth? Central banks sure don't want you to find out

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12:16a ET Thursday, May 5, 2011

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Paper silver market doesn't care about physical market, Norcini tells King

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10:38p ET Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold (and Silver):

Is Mexico starting to buy silver too?

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Could that ever-exploited country have begun to start standing up for itself? Are its authorities finally listening to their unsung patriot, Hugo Salinas Price? Note the Bank of Mexico's refusal to comment about its gold purchase. At least Reuters tried putting a question to a central bank this time.

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Mexico Ramps Up Gold Reserves at Dollar's Expense

By Dave Graham
Reuters

Mexico went from 7 to 100 tonnes in a flash; Russia, Thailand bought too

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How strange. The IMF never issued a press release about the Mexican, Russian, and Thai gold purchases:

http://www.imf.org/external/news/default.aspx

Apparently to the IMF only gold sales are news.

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Bank of Mexico Buys 100 Tons of Gold in February, March

By Rhiannon Hoyle
The Wall Street Journal
May 4, 2011

Lars Schall: The war on gold (and silver)

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1:11p ET Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold (and Silver):

Huge gold purchase by Mexico's central bank: 100 tonnes

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By Jack Farchy
Financial Times, London
Wednesday, May 4, 2011

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/cbc02e10-7637-11e0-b4f7-00144feabdc0,s01=1.html

The central bank of Mexico bought nearly 100 tonnes of gold in February and March, the latest emerging market country to turn to bullion as a means of diversifying away from the faltering dollar.

GATA consultants Turk and Vieira to speak May 12 at CMRE in New York

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1a ET Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Ralph Benko: Fort Knox vs. Fort Fed

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10:03p ET Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

In addition to Bill Frezza's essay just dispatched to you, there's something else brilliant at the Forbes blog tonight: An essay by Ralph Benko, senior economic adviser to the American Principles Project, about the many efforts under way to get the United States to return to or at least consider returning to a gold standard.

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