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Gold Newsletter's Brien Lundin: Manipulations and machinations
Submitted by cpowell on Sat, 2016-04-30 11:43 Section: Daily Dispatches11:55a ET Saturday, April 30, 2016
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
This is what happens when you don't issue the world reserve currency
Submitted by cpowell on Fri, 2016-04-29 14:45 Section: Daily DispatchesVenezuelans Add Beer to List of Privations
By Andres Schipani
Financial Times, London
Friday, April 29, 2016
Venezuela's largest privately owned company on Friday stopped producing beer, adding to a list of privations facing residents already frustrated by power cuts, water shortages, triple-digit inflation, and grinding recession.
Mike Kosares: Did Shanghai just blow a hole in the old gold market?
Submitted by cpowell on Fri, 2016-04-29 14:17 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Michael Kosares
USAGold.com, Denver
Friday, April 29, 2016
OK, Globe & Mail, why do central banks intervene in gold instead of beaver pelts?
Submitted by cpowell on Fri, 2016-04-29 13:34 Section: Daily Dispatches2p ET Friday, April 29, 2016
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
In an interview on CNBC seven years ago, the soon-to-be-ubiquitous James G. Rickards made an observation for the ages, an observation that could be the preface for Chapter 1 of every economics textbook that aspired to be more than disinformation for the financial class.
Deutsche Bank tires quickly of its experiment with integrity
Submitted by cpowell on Fri, 2016-04-29 11:55 Section: Daily DispatchesHead of Deutsche Bank Integrity Committee to Resign
By James Shotter
Financial Times, London
Thursday, April 28, 2016
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/9256f338-0d82-11e6-b41f-0beb7e589515.html
Georg Thoma is to resign from Deutsche Bank's supervisory board after coming under fire from other board members in a battle over how to deal with the German bank's past scandals.
Dissatisfied Zero Hedge employee feeds his resentments to Bloomberg
Submitted by cpowell on Fri, 2016-04-29 08:37 Section: Daily Dispatches8:35a ET Friday, April 29, 2016
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
A dissatisfied employee has quit Zero Hedge and fed his complaints to Bloomberg News, which gleefully recounts them today:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-29/unmasking-the-men-behi...
Zero Hedge quickly replies:
Following ancients, explorers hunt gold in the Egyptian desert
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2016-04-28 23:52 Section: Daily DispatchesStill another rich country insisting on being poor.
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By The Associated Press
via The New York Times
Thursday, April 28, 2016
EASTERN DESERT, Egypt -- Off the off-road tracks deep in Egypt's eastern desert, prospectors are ramping up the hunt for the treasure once revered by the pharaohs as the "skin of the gods" -- gold.
Putin's decade-old dream realized as Russia to price its own oil
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2016-04-28 23:10 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Eduard Gismatullin
Bloomberg News
Wednesday, April 27, 2016
Russian President Vladimir Putin is on the verge of realizing a decade-old dream: Russian oil priced in Russia.
Alasdair Macleod: Taking the petro out of the dollar
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2016-04-28 14:29 Section: Daily Dispatches2:30p ET Thursday, April 28, 2016
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
CFTC has no comment on Deutsche Bank's admission of gold, silver market rigging
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2016-04-28 14:01 Section: Daily Dispatches2p ET Thursday, April 28, 2016
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission will not answer questions arising from Deutsche Bank's reported agreement to pay damages for and implicate other banks in the manipulation of the gold and silver markets, a commission spokesman said today.