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If gold is just a 'pet rock,' why are central banks so secretive about it?
Submitted by cpowell on Fri, 2015-08-07 22:33 Section: Documentation10:47p ET Friday, August 7, 2015
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
"Let's be honest about gold," read the headline in The Wall Street Journal on Jason Zweig's column July 17. "It's a pet rock":
http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2015/07/17/lets-be-honest-about-gold-its-...
Zweig wrote: "It is time to call owning gold what it is: an act of faith."
Bank of England study: Gold is best money but buying it risks offending U.S.
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2015-08-06 11:01 Section: Documentation11a ET Thursday, August 6, 2015
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
OCC derivatives report suggests U.S. govt. has seized all commodity markets
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2015-06-29 22:50 Section: Documentation10:56p ET Monday, June 25, 2015
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Citing the latest quarterly report of the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Zero Hedge concludes tonight that JPMorganChase has "cornered the commodity derivative market," the notional value of the investment bank's commodity derivative position having just exploded from around $200 billion to nearly $4 trillion.
Avery Goodman: Morgan runs Fed's gold operations at Comex, Fed guarantees exchange
Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2015-06-09 21:58 Section: Documentation10:06p ET Tuesday, June 9, 2015
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
LBMA adviser, former Barclays exec will help central banks rig the gold market
Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2015-05-03 18:01 Section: DocumentationBy Ronan Manly
Sunday, May 3, 2015
A few weeks ago, through GATA, I called attention to the assertion by the chief executive of the London Bullion Market Association, Ruth Crowell, that the London gold market can never be fully transparent while central banks remain such big participants:
BIS president in 1981: We've got to start rigging the gold market
Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2015-04-22 13:21 Section: Documentation1:26p ET Wednesday, April 22, 2015
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
"Regulating the gold price in the free market" was recommended to central banks by the president of the Bank for International Settlements," Jelle Zijlstra, in a speech at International Monetary Fund headquarters in Washington in September 1981.
LBMA admits London gold market can't be transparent with central banks in it
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2015-04-06 11:58 Section: Documentation12:32p ET Monday, April 6, 2015
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Central bank involvement may prevent the London gold market from ever becoming really transparent, the chief executive of the London Bullion Market Association has told a Bank of England study group.
Ed Steer: Gold manipulation -- the 'London bias' -- 1970-2014
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2015-03-09 11:44 Section: Documentation11:45a ET Monday, March 9, 2015
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
GATA board member Ed Steer, editor of Casey Research's Gold and Silver Daily letter, today publishes a detailed report on the suppression of gold prices in the London market for most years from 1970 through last year even as world gold prices were rising generally.
1968 magazine article shows how control of gold is main mechanism of imperial power
Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2015-03-01 13:00 Section: Documentation1:11p ET Sunday, March 1, 2015
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Thanks to GATA's friend D.H. for calling attention to an article, "The Sieve of Gold," from the May 1968 edition of the late magazine Ramparts --
Ronan Manly: Bank of England traded gold in 1980s to control price and made a profit
Submitted by cpowell on Sat, 2015-02-28 14:45 Section: Documentation2:45p ET Saturday, February 28, 2015
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
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