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Central banks now rig all asset prices, Stockman says

Section: Daily Dispatches

6:18p ET Sunday, June 6, 2014

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Former U.S. Rep. and U.S. budget director David Stockman, interviewed by the Mises Institute about his new book, "The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America," earns his tinfoil hat with a denunciation of the Federal Reserve.

France lashes out at dollar dominance in international transactions

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Michael Stothard
Financial Times, London
Sunday, July 6, 2014

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/883e7912-0513-11e4-b098-00144feab7de.html

AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France -- France's political and business establishment has hit out against the hegemony of the dollar in international transactions after US authorities fined BNP Paribas $9 billion for helping countries avoid sanctions.

London's scandal-hit gold price fixing under spotlight this week

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By Jessica Berthereau
Agence France-Presse
via Yahoo News
Sunday, July 6, 2014

http://news.yahoo.com/londons-scandal-hit-gold-price-fixing-under-spotli...

LONDON -- London's century-old process for fixing gold prices, tainted by a rigging scandal and attacked by critics as old-fashioned, goes under the spotlight this week in key talks aimed at modernising the process.

Koos Jansen: China's half-year gold demand hits 947 tonnes

Section: Daily Dispatches

11:55a ET Sunday, July 6, 2014

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

No more market crashes -- and no more markets either

Section: Daily Dispatches

11:47a ET Sunday, July 6, 2014

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Huge divergences in traditional economic relationships are showing up all over the place and evoking much comment and analysis.

Writing at King World News, Ronald-Peter Stoferle of Incrementum AG in Liechtenstein identifies some and suggests that they foretell a stock market crash:

Central bank talk moves currencies now, not commodity prices

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Commodities Obsolete in Models Yielding to Fed, ECB

By Cecile Gutscher
Bloomberg News
Friday, July 4, 2014

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-07-03/commodities-obsolete-in-models-...

Commodities are getting a demotion from foreign-exchange strategists.

Alasdair Macleod: A tale of two certainties

Section: Daily Dispatches

9:26a ET Saturday, July 5, 2014

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European exchange rate contest raises prospect of currency caps

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By Eshe Nelson
Bloomberg News
Friday, July 4, 2014

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-07-04/european-exchange-rate-contest-...

LONDON -- European Central Bank efforts to combat falling consumer prices are raising the prospect of retaliation through the currency markets as smaller neighbors grapple with their own deflationary risks.

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