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Is bitcoin a better hedge, freer from government market rigging than gold?
Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2013-03-31 08:20 Section: Daily Dispatches8:23a ET Sunday, March 31, 2013
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Is bitcoin a better hedge against currency devaluation than gold is because its issuance is tightly regulated and the market for it is less vulnerable to manipulation by government?
Currency auction puts Venezuela through new devaluation
Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2013-03-31 08:03 Section: Daily DispatchesVenezuela's Move Seen as Currency Devaluation
From Agence France-Presse
via Yahoo News
Sunday, March 31, 2013
http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/venezuela-move-seen-currency-devaluatio...
A Venezuelan government foreign currency auction for local importers has triggered a de-facto currency devaluation, the second in less than 50 days, analysts said.
Jim Sinclair's next gold market seminar to be held in Toronto on April 11
Submitted by cpowell on Sat, 2013-03-30 21:27 Section: Daily Dispatches9:25p ET Saturday, March 30, 2013
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Gold trader and mining entrepreneur Jim Sinclair will hold his next gold market seminar on Thursday, April 11, in Toronto. Details are posted at his Internet site, JSMineSet.com, here:
http://www.jsmineset.com/2013/03/30/toronto-qa-meeting-announced-april-1...
CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer
Can bitcoin compete with government currencies?
Submitted by cpowell on Fri, 2013-03-29 15:13 Section: Daily Dispatches3:12p ET Friday, March 29, 2013
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Turkey trading gold with Iran again; gold ETFs examined on 10th anniversary
Submitted by cpowell on Fri, 2013-03-29 15:00 Section: Daily Dispatches2:59p ET Friday, March 29, 2013
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Reuters says Turkey has resumed its trade of gold to Iran in exchange for natural gas:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/29/turkey-iran-sanctions-idUSL5N0...
Grant Williams tells Hong Kong conference about gold price suppression
Submitted by cpowell on Fri, 2013-03-29 08:30 Section: Daily Dispatches8:33a ET Friday, March 29, 2013
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Grant Williams, portfolio adviser to Vulpes Investment Management in Singapore and editor of the Things That Make You Go Hmmm. ... newsletter --
Rick Rule draws three profound lessons from the Cyprus debacle
Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2013-03-27 22:21 Section: Daily Dispatches10:17p ET Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Interviewed today by King World News, Sprott Asset Management's Rick Rule draws three profound lessons from the debacle in Cyprus:
"1) That ultimately, given the leveraged nature of the system, deposit insurance is just another social promise that won't be able to be kept.
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard: Cyprus has killed the myth that EMU is benign
Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2013-03-27 21:57 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
The Telegraph, London
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/995799...
The gold price isn't irrelevant but financial journalism is
Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2013-03-27 16:57 Section: Daily Dispatches5:16p ET Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
In pursuit of democracy, limited and accountable government, and free and transparent markets, GATA is up against central banks, the most powerful institutions on the planet. But they are not so much the problem, as their power is based largely on surreptitiousness and it will crumble when it is exposed.
Russia, South Africa seek to create OPEC-style platinum bloc
Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2013-03-27 14:46 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Ilya Arkhipov and Franz Wild
Bloomberg News
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-26/russia-south-africa-seek-to-cre...
Russia and South Africa, countries that hold about 80 percent of platinum group metal reserves, plan to set up an OPEC-type trading bloc to coordinate exports.
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