Daily Dispatches

11:50a ET Thursday, December 8, 2016

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Gold researcher Allan Flynn today reviews some pretty telling details of the new evidence filed in the silver market rigging class-action lawsuit --

http://www.gata.org/files/SilverFixingCaseFiling-12-07-2016.pdf

Prince Charles doesn't seem to have asked.

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Can I Take One of These Home? Prince Charles Is Shown Bank of England's Vaults Where 400,000 Gold Bars Worth L100 Billion Are Stored

By Rebecca English
Daily Mail, London
Wednesday, December 7, 2016

As jokes go it probably wasn't the most tactful, but at least it tickled Prince Charles.

Oops! Experts' L6 Billion Blunder Sends UK Trade Deficit Soaring

By Philip Aldrick
The Times, London
Wednesday, December 7, 2016

Britain's trade deficit with the rest of the world is L6 billion larger than previously thought -- and at a record high -- because the nation's beancounters made a mistake in their sums.

By Will Railton
City AM, London
Wednesday, December 7, 2016

As an asset, gold is entirely speculative. It provides no income or dividends and has few industrial or medical applications. Investors buy it only in the confidence that humans' peculiar and enduring fascination with the lustrous metal will ensure its value through the decades and centuries to come.