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Brien Lundin: Don't expect much from Justice probe of gold market rigging

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By Brien Lundin
Gold Newsletter, Metairie, Louisiana
Thursday, February 26, 2015

https://jeffersoncompanies.com/gold-newsletter/about-gold-newsletter

The good news is that manipulation of the gold market has finally come under investigation by the authorities, with the U.S. Justice Department opening up an investigation into 10 major banks.

U.S. government is authorized to rig all markets in secret, GATA secretary tells KWN

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2:42p ET Thursday, February 26, 2015

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Western governments are legally authorized to rig all markets in secret and as a result investigations of market rigging by the investment houses central banks use as intermediaries are not likely to produce anything, your secretary/treasurer tells King World News in an interview today.

Mark O'Byrne: 12 reasons why Ritholtz and many experts are mistaken on gold

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11:47a ET Thursday, February 26, 2015

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GoldCore's Mark O'Byrne has replied conscientiously to fund manager and financial writer Barry Ritholtz's ridicule of gold investment and gold investors, "12 Rules of Goldbuggery," which can be found at Rithotlz's Internet site here:

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2013/04/the-10-rules-of-goldbuggery/

Dollar Vigilante cites GATA in review of complaints about gold market rigging

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4:45p ET Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

King Report: Banks suspected of rigging gold likely do it for central banks

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By Bill King
Excerpted from The King Report, Burr Ridge, Illinois
Wednesday, February 25, 2015

http://www.mramseyking.com/king-report

For years if not decades the usual suspects ridiculed people who claimed that gold was being manipulated. But the conspiracy crowd was right:

The disappeared: Chicago police detain Americans at abuse-laden 'black site'

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By Spencer Ackerman
The Guardian, London
Tuesday, February 24, 2015

CHICAGO -- The Chicago police department operates an off-the-books interrogation compound, rendering Americans unable to be found by family or attorneys while locked inside what lawyers say is the domestic equivalent of a CIA black site.

BNY Mellon in settlement talks over forex fraud, sources tell Reuters

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By Karen Freifeld and Nate Raymond
Reuters
Tuesday, February 24, 2015

NEW YORK -- Bank of New York Mellon Corp. is in settlement talks with the U.S. Justice Department and New York attorney general over claims the bank defrauded clients in foreign exchange transactions, according to sources familiar with the matter.

New York Sun: Janet Yellen's audit

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From the New York Sun
Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Greece can't pay but EU can't let Greece go, Embry tells KWN

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3:16p ET Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Greece can't pay its European Union creditors but the EU can't let Greece go because default would wreck the EU banking system, Sprott Asset Management's John Embry tells King World News today, adding that nothing about the Greek situation has been solved. An excerpt from Embry's interview is posted at the KWN blog here:

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