Daily Dispatches

John Dizard: Gold flash crash rouses suspicions of witchcraft

Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2012-03-04 10:08 Section: Daily Dispatches

Another patronizing journalist who will never try putting hard, specific questions to central banks, even though, as he implicitly acknowledges in his final paragraph, they plot to run the world in secret. All that is just to be taken for granted ... at least by journalists like himself.

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Gold Flash Crash Rouses Suspicions of Witchcraft

By John Dizard

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Allan Flynn: Wednesday's intervention -- too big to spoil?

Submitted by cpowell on Sat, 2012-03-03 13:08 Section: Daily Dispatches

1p ET Saturday, March 3, 2012

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Observations on last week's gold smashdown collected by our friend Allan Flynn suggest that the gold price suppression scheme has lost its cover. Flynn's commentary is headlined "Wednesday's Intervention -- Too Big to Spoil?" and it's posted at his blog here:

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It's physical vs. paper, Embry tells Future Money Trends

Submitted by cpowell on Sat, 2012-03-03 10:40 Section: Daily Dispatches

10:36a ET Saturday, March 3, 2012

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

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Wall Street banks, Fed face off over commodity businesses

Submitted by cpowell on Sat, 2012-03-03 09:59 Section: Daily Dispatches

By David Sheppard, Jonathan Leff, and Josephine Mason
Reuters
Friday, March 2, 2012

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/02/us-fed-banks-commodities-idUST...

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Alasdair Macleod: Where is Greece's gold?

Submitted by cpowell on Sat, 2012-03-03 09:35 Section: Daily Dispatches

9:30a ET Saturday, March 3, 2012

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

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Metals smashed to disguise monetary irresponsibility, Sprott tells KWN

Submitted by cpowell on Fri, 2012-03-02 20:48 Section: Daily Dispatches

8:45p ET Friday, March 2, 2012

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

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Commercials went really short in silver at $33, Arensberg reports

Submitted by cpowell on Fri, 2012-03-02 17:57 Section: Daily Dispatches

5:53p ET Friday, March 2, 2012

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold (and Silver):

Gene Arensberg says at the Got Gold Report tonight that the large commercial traders in silver are now shorter than they have been since last September and that they really piled into their short positions as silver rose past $33. Arensberg's commentary is posted at the Got Gold Report's Internet site here: