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How Sweden's negative interest-rates experiment has turned economics on its head

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Peter Spence
The Telegraph, London
Sunday, September 27, 2015

It has long been believed that when it comes to interest rates, zero is as low as you can go. Who would choose to keep their money in the bank if they had to pay for the privilege?

Switzerland probes banks over precious metals price fixing

Section: Daily Dispatches

From The Telegraph, London
Monday, September 28, 2015

Swiss competition authorities are investigating HSBC, Barclays, Deutsche Bank, and four other banks on suspicion of price fixing in the precious metals market.

Investor lawsuits pile up claiming U.S. Treasury market is rigged

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Joe Rennison
Financial Times, London
Monday, September 28, 2015

NEW YORK -- Investors have filed a flurry of court cases claiming banks and brokers have been rigging the Treasury bond market and increasing the cost of selling debt for the US government.

Metals and Minerals Trading Corp. to produce, market India's sovereign gold coins

Section: Daily Dispatches

Dillip Satapathy
Business Standard, New Delhi
Monday, September 28, 2015

BHUBANESWAR, India -- Metals and Minerals Trading Corp., under the Union commerce ministry, will manufacture and market sovereign gold coins in India and abroad.

Indian government may not ask questions about gold submitted for paperizing

Section: Daily Dispatches

Government to Make Gold Monetisation Scheme Attractive Before Launch

From the Deccan Herald
Bangalore, India
Monday, September 28, 2015

The more markets are 'financialized,' the more central banks can rig them

Section: Daily Dispatches

9:30p ET Saturday, September 26, 2015

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Perth Mint research director Bron Suchecki today elaborates on the Physical Gold Fund's interview with an unidentified Swiss gold refinery executive, which GATA called to your attention Wednesday --

http://www.gata.org/node/15767

Chris Martenson fully endorses the gold manipulation story

Section: Daily Dispatches

8:15p ET Saturday, September 26, 2015

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

With his latest commentary, "Buy Gold While You Still Can," market analyst Chris Martenson fully endorses the market manipulation account of the gold market, citing documents and developments GATA has been citing for years -- and does so without, of course, a single reference to GATA.

TF Metals Report: A Comex bank run for Scotia Mocatta

Section: Daily Dispatches

1:14p ET Friday, September 25, 2015

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The TF Metals Report's Turd Ferguson today identifies a 60-percent reduction of gold held in the Comex vaults of Scotia Mocatta, the oldest bullion bank. His analysis is headlined "A Comex Bank Run for Scotia Mocatta" and it's posted at the TF Metals Report's Internet site here:

Koos Jansen: The London float and PBOC gold purchases

Section: Daily Dispatches

11:04a ET Friday, September 25, 2015

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

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