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So where's all that imaginary gold coming from and why?
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2016-03-14 20:22 Section: Daily Dispatches8:23p ET Monday, March 14, 2016
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Damned Turks! Who the hell do they think they are -- Indians?
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2016-03-14 19:54 Section: Daily DispatchesWhy Turks Are Skipping Banks and Keeping Their Gold at Home
By Mehmet Cetingulec
Al-Monitor, Washington, D.C.
Monday, March 13, 2016
BlackRock was buying lots of GLD while fumbling its own gold fund
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2016-03-14 13:44 Section: Daily DispatchesHow BlackRock Took a Shine to a Competitor's Gold ETF
By Leslie Josephs
The Wall Street Journal
Monday, March 14, 2016
BlackRock, whose popular exchange-traded gold product briefly suspended the creation of new shares this month due to an administrative error amid a surge in demand, has been making a hefty bet on a gold ETF lately.
But here's the twist: It was a competitor's ETF.
Keith Barron's real-life adventure story of gold discovery in Ecuador, Part 2
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2016-03-14 13:28 Section: Daily Dispatches1:27p ET Monday, March 14, 2016
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Part 2 of geologist and mining entrepreneur Keith Barron's account of his discovery of the Fruta del Norte gold deposit in Ecuador is even more of an adventure story than Part 1. It's amazing that he lived to tell the tale. It's posted at his Internet site, Straight Talk on Mining, here:
A 'radical economic theory' is gaining converts, except it's not radical at all
Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2016-03-13 21:31 Section: Daily Dispatches9:50p ET Sunday, March 13, 2016
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Central banks aim to beat bitcoin at own game with rival supercurrency
Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2016-03-13 11:57 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
The Telegraph, London
Sunday, March 13, 2016
Computer scientists have devised a digital crypto-currency in league with the Bank of England that could pose a devastating threat to large tranches of the financial industry and profoundly change the management of monetary policy.
Gold just collects dust? Two more financial companies disagree
Submitted by cpowell on Fri, 2016-03-11 13:00 Section: Daily Dispatches1:05p ET Friday, March 11, 2016
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
"Bullion is not liquid," says Ian Lee, a business school professor at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. "It sits down in the basement and collects dust":
http://www.ctvnews.ca/business/canada-s-gold-reserve-sell-off-makes-sens...
Tell that to, among others, AuSecure --
TF Metals Report interviews GATA chairman on resilience of monetary metals
Submitted by cpowell on Fri, 2016-03-11 12:15 Section: Daily Dispatches12:14p ET Friday, March 11, 2016
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard: ECB's Draghi plays his last card to stave off deflation
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2016-03-10 19:56 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
The Telegraph, London
Thursday, March 10, 2016
The European Central Bank has pulled out all the stops to avert a dangerous deflation trap, launching a blast of triple stimulus despite angry criticism from Germany that it is entirely unnecessary and will do more harm than good.
Alasdair Macleod: Gold is the only sound money
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2016-03-10 13:28 Section: Daily Dispatches1:28p ET Thursday, March 10, 2016
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
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