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'Gold bugs' aren't the great concealers; central banks and financial journalists are
Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2015-10-11 20:41 Section: Daily Dispatches9p ET Sunday, October 11, 2015 Dear Friend of GATA and Gold: MarketWatch columnist Brett Arends may win this year's award for the most disinformation in financial commentary about gold. His October 9 column, "Here's the Chart Gold Bugs Don't Want You to See" -- http://www.marketwatch.com/story/heres-the-chart-gold-bugs-dont-want-you...
Fed officials seem ready to deploy negative rates in next crisis
Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2015-10-11 13:41 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Greg Robb
MarketWatch.com, New York
Saturday, October 10, 2015
Federal Reserve officials now seem open to deploying negative interest rates to combat the next serious recession even though they rejected that option during the darkest days of the financial crisis in 2009 and 2010.
IMF and World Bank disagree about competitive devaluations
Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2015-10-11 10:04 Section: Daily DispatchesThe Real Fight to Win the International Currency Wars
By Mehreen Khan
The Telegraph, London
Saturday, October 10, 2015
China's decision to tweak its exchange rate peg with the dollar in August provoked reactionary howls of derision -- from the United States to India -- that Beijing was gearing up for a new wave of international currency warfare.
But do currency wars really work?
LBMA invites proposals on how to improve London's gold market
Submitted by cpowell on Fri, 2015-10-09 19:24 Section: Daily DispatchesWhy not start by getting rid of the LBMA?
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LBMA Invites Proposals on How to Improve London's Gold Market
By Eddie Van Der Walt
Bloomberg News
Friday, October 9, 2015
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-09/lbma-invites-proposals...
Koos Jansen: The Chinese gold market -- lost in translation
Submitted by cpowell on Fri, 2015-10-09 12:58 Section: Daily Dispatches12:58p ET Friday, October 9, 2015
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Bron Suchecki: Bundesbank's gold bar list would fail an audit
Submitted by cpowell on Fri, 2015-10-09 12:00 Section: Daily Dispatches11:59a ET Friday, October 9, 2015
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Perth Mint research director Bron Suchecki agrees today that the German Bundesbank's gold bar list, published this week, is completely inadequate and would never be sufficient for audit purposes.
Bron Suchecki: OCC precious metal derivatives fat finger
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2015-10-08 14:40 Section: Daily Dispatches2:40p ET Thursday, October 8, 2015
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Alasdair Macleod: China and the dollar
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2015-10-08 14:22 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Alasdair Macleod
GoldMoney.com, St. Hellier, Jersey, Channel Islands
Thursday, October 8, 2015
With the benefit of hindsight, the two-day devaluation of the yuan in mid-August might have been a masterstroke of strategy.
Peter Boehringer: Bundesbank still has failed to deliver a gold bar list
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2015-10-08 13:09 Section: Daily Dispatches1:08p ET Thursday, October 8, 2015
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Peter Boehringer, leader of the campaign to repatriate Germany's national gold reserves, today brilliantly dismantles the Bundesbank's claim yesterday to have accounted for those reserves.
Koos Jansen: The real reason Belgium sold 1,098 tonnes of gold
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2015-10-08 08:42 Section: Daily Dispatches8:40a ET Thursday, October 8, 2015
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Gold researcher and GATA consultant Koos Jansen today reports that the Belgian and Netherlands central banks maintain secrets about transactions with their national gold reserves. His report is headlined "The Real Reason Belgium Sold 1,098 Tonnes of Gold" and it's posted at Bullion Star's Internet site here:
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