Daily Dispatches

James Turk: Numbers don't lie

Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2010-12-13 23:35 Section: Daily Dispatches

11:32p ET Monday, December 13, 2010

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Federal Reserve policy, "quantitative easing," is failing, Free Gold Money Report editor and GoldMoney founder James Turk writes tonight, pointing to rising long-term interest rates and commodity prices. Turk's commentary is headlined "Numbers Don't Lie" and you can find it at the FGMR Internet site here:

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Rep. Ron Paul, Republican loner, comes in from the cold

Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2010-12-13 23:24 Section: Daily Dispatches

By Kate Zernike
The New York Times
Monday, December 13, 2010

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/13/us/politics/13paul.html

WASHINGTON -- As virtually all of Washington was declaring WikiLeaks's disclosures of secret diplomatic cables an act of treason, U.S. Rep. Ron Paul was applauding the organization for exposing the United States' "delusional foreign policy."

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Market riggers are feeling the heat, so help GATA turn it up

Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2010-12-13 21:51 Section: Daily Dispatches

10p ET Monday, December 13, 2010

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold (and Silver):

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Morgan quietly cuts silver futures position way back, FT reports

Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2010-12-13 20:19 Section: Daily Dispatches

JPMorgan Cuts Back on U.S. Silver Futures

By Jack Farchy and Gregory Meyer
Financial Times, London
Monday, December 13, 2010

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7d699ca4-06ea-11e0-8c29-00144feabdc0.html

JPMorgan has quietly reduced a large position in the US silver futures market that had been at the centre of a controversy about its impact on global prices for the precious metal.

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Ron Paul: Transparency for the Fed is my main objective

Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2010-12-13 16:51 Section: Daily Dispatches

Audit the Fed in 2011

By U.S. Rep. Ron Paul
Monday, December 13, 2010

http://paul.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1807:...

Since the announcement last week that I will chair the congressional subcommittee that oversees the Federal Reserve, the media response has been overwhelming.

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Central banks have rigged gold for decades, Rickards tells interviewer

Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2010-12-12 13:08 Section: Daily Dispatches

1p ET Sunday, December 12, 2010

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold (and Silver):

Western central banks have been surreptitiously manipulating the gold market for 60 years, market analyst James G. Rickards tells the German journalist Lars Schall in a wide-ranging interview published at ChaosTheorien today.