Daily Dispatches

Swaps probe finds banks manipulated rate at expense of retirees

Submitted by cpowell on Fri, 2013-08-02 08:03 Section: Daily Dispatches

By Matthew Leising
Bloomberg News
Friday, August 2, 2013

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-02/swaps-probe-finds-banks-manipul...

U.S. investigators have uncovered evidence that banks reaped millions of dollars in trading profits at the expense of companies and pension funds by manipulating a benchmark for interest-rate derivatives.

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End of fractional-reserve gold banking system is in sight, Brodsky tells KWN

Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2013-08-01 18:02 Section: Daily Dispatches

6p ET Thursday, August 1, 2013

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

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Why, Hathaway asks, is gold market manipulation such a stretch?

Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2013-08-01 15:16 Section: Daily Dispatches

3:16p ET Thursday, August 1, 2013

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

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Dennis Gartman is 'willing to give GATA its due'

Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2013-08-01 11:50 Section: Daily Dispatches

11:49a ET Thursday, August 1, 2013

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Commodity market letter writer Dennis Gartman (www.TheGartmanLetter.com) today seems to back off a bit from his usual disparagement of suspicions of gold market manipulation.

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On 'Keiser Report,' bullion trader Maguire describes run on the London gold banks

Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2013-07-31 21:54 Section: Daily Dispatches

9:52p ET Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

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Mike Kosares: Bernanke's gift (or tempering the taper tantrum)

Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2013-07-31 16:19 Section: Daily Dispatches

4:20p ET Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

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Market rigging is even easier when you know everybody's trade instructions

Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2013-07-31 16:01 Section: Daily Dispatches

XKeyscore: NSA Tool Collects 'Nearly Everything a User Does on the Internet'

By Glenn Greenwald
The Guardian, London
Wednesday, July 31, 2013

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/31/nsa-top-secret-program-onli...

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U.S. knows what Nazis did: Imperialism works best by rigging currency markets

Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2013-07-31 15:21 Section: Daily Dispatches

3:30p ET Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Hard upon the Bank of England's belated admission this week that it had been almost as much of a Nazi collaborator as the infamous Bank for International Settlements itself --

http://www.gata.org/node/12860