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Fines against bullion banks for market rigging vindicate GATA, Sprott says

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8:47p ET Sunday, February 4, 2018

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Sudanese pound is on the way to becoming an ounce

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Sudan Central Bank Weakens Bank Trading Exchange Rate to 31.5 Pounds to Dollar

From Reuters
Sunday, February 4, 2018

KHARTOUM, Sudan -- Sudan's central bank said today it had decided to weaken the exchange rate at which banks can trade their scarce supply of dollars to an upper limit of 31.5 Sudanese pounds per U.S. dollar.

Bitcoin ban expands across credit cards as big U.S. banks recoil

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By Jennifer Surane and Laura J. Keller
Bloomberg News
Friday, February 2, 2018

A growing number of big U.S. credit-card issuers are deciding they don’t want to finance a falling knife.

Silver Doctors interviews GATA's Murphy on Friday's market crashes

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10:11a ET Saturday, February 3, 2018

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Is U.S. waging a 'cold war' to weaken the dollar?

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By Daniel Shane
CNN, Atlanta
Friday, February 2, 2018

The dollar is at its weakest level in years against other major currencies. Experts say the drop is being driven, at least in part, by the U.S. government. And some suggest it's a deliberate campaign aimed at boosting the American economy at the expense of major trading partners like Europe and Japan.

All trapped gold miners in S. Africa rescued unhurt

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By Jeanette Chabalala
News24, Johannesburg
Friday, February 2, 2018

WELKOM, South Africa -- The National Union of Mineworkers confirmed today that all 955 Sibanye Gold mine workers who were trapped underground have been resurfaced.

"The mine workers were rescued at around 6:30 this morning," the union's national spokesperson, Livhuwani Mammburu, confirmed to News24.

Nearly a thousand gold miners trapped underground in South Africa

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Central banks and bullion banks are working hard to keep them trapped.

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By Allan Seccombe
Business Day, Johannesburg
Thursday, February 1, 2018

About 950 workers are trapped underground at Sibanye-Stillwater's Beatrix gold mine in the Free State, after an overnight power failure cause by a lightning strike.

Ted Butler: CFTC's long silver investigation missed what the agency just fined

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4:48p ET Thursday, February 1, 2018

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Mark O'Byrne: Gold rigging won't end until China consents or press publicizes GATA

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4:33p ET Thursday, February 1, 2018

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Gold price suppression, GoldCore's Mark O'Byrne writes today, isn't likely to end until the People's Bank of China stops cooperating with it or until mainstream financial news organizations examine and report the documentation GATA has developed over the years.

Ronan Manly: LBMA promises transparency but never delivers

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4:23p ET Thursday, February 1, 2018

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Gold researcher Ronan Manly today examines the years-long racket of the London Bullion Market Association's promising greater transparency in the gold market while always failing to deliver. Manly's analysis is headlined "What's Happening (or Not) at the LBMA: Some Updates" and it's posted at Bullion Star here:

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