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'China's Second Continent' describes the new colonization of Africa

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"China's Second Continent: How a Million Migrants Are Building a New Empire in Africa," by Howard W. French, Knopf Doubleday, 304 pages.

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By Chris Hartman
The Christian Science Monitor, Boston
Friday, August 8, 2014

Junior resource companies can't help exceeding expectations, Rule tells KWN

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11p ET Sunday, August 10, 2014

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Money printing, Ukraine, disease make Sprott wary of stocks and bonds

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10a ET Saturday, August 9, 2014

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Financial system 'booby-trapped' with leverage, Stockman warns

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1:40p ET Friday, August 8, 2014

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Former U.S. budget director David Stockman tells King World News today that he doubts that central banks can keep supporting markets much longer, now that "the whole global financial system is booby-trapped with both visible and hidden leverage."

Alasdair Macleod: No market crashes anymore, just currency risk

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11:29a ET Friday, August 8, 2014

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Market rigging by governments has become comprehensive, GoldMoney research director Alasdair Macleod writes today in what is probably his most profound and important commentary ever.

Dennis Gartman: Gold vs. The Force

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11a ET Friday, August 8, 2014

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Doug Casey of Casey Research refuses to see gold market manipulation because it contradicts his ideology that markets are always bigger than governments. (If only they were, since then no government on the planet would remain in its current configuration and totalitarianism would be impossible.)

Jansen, Suchecki note unreliability of gold data

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8:50a ET Friday, August 8, 2014

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

European and British gold export data isn't reliable, gold researcher and GATA consultant Koos Jansen painstakingly explains today in commentary posted at Bullion Star:

https://www.bullionstar.com/article/hmrc%20and%20eurostat%20alter%20hist...

Germany close to recession as ECB admits recovery is weak

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By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
The Telegraph, London
Thursday, August 7, 2014

German bonds yields plunged to a historic low and two-year rates briefly fell below zero on Thursday on fears of widening recession in the eurozone and a flight to safety as Russian troops massed on the Ukrainian border.

Which precious metal transactions must be reported and which can be private?

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10:07p ET Thursday, August 7, 2014

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Which precious metal coin and bullion transactions require reporting to the U.S. government and which may be undertaken in privacy?

JM Bullion in Dallas has published a fascinating graphic answering the question, and some of the answers may surprise you:

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