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Ted Butler: U.S. commodity regulation -- a failed mission?

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9:45a ET Thursday, May 26, 2011

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold (and Silver):

Join GATA in supporting appeal of Liberty Dollar founder

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12:08a ET Thursday, May 26, 2011

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Bid to use gold as collateral advances in Europe

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By Francesca Freeman
The Wall Street Journal
Wednesday, May 25, 2011

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230452080457634555143102685...

LONDON -- Investors are closer to being able to use gold as a trading security after a European parliamentary committee approved a proposal to allow clearing houses to accept gold as collateral, the World Gold Council said Wednesday.

John Hathaway: Welfare state democracy is sure to destroy the dollar

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8:12p ET Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold (and Silver):

Writing at the King World News blog, Tocqueville Gold Fund manager John Hathaway studies the age of the gold bull and concludes that the bull has longer to run because welfare state democracy has pushed the U.S. dollar past the tipping point. Hathaway writes:

GATA urges Paul to probe Fed's gold swaps; he tells CNBC he will

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6:14p ET Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Market manipulation is the very purpose of derivatives

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11:13a ET Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold (and Silver):

World back on gold standard by 2014, Ian Gordon tells MineWeb

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10:35a ET Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold (and Silver):

Stewart Thompson: QE having failed, gold revaluation is next

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12:35a ET Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Colombia intervenes surreptitiously to push peso down

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Colombia's Dollar Purchases Generate Angst In Forex Market

By Darcy Crowe
Dow Jones Newswires
via The Wall Street Journal
Tuesday, May 24, 2011

http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20110524-714164.html

BOGOTA, Colombia -- The Colombian peso has been roiled by a dose of fear in recent weeks spurred by discretionary government dollar purchases in the exchange market.

Similar tactics are easily implemented in the precious metals markets

Section: Daily Dispatches

But wanting prices down, governments never move against short-side manipulations. Instead governments assist them.

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US Sues Big Oil Traders for 2008 Manipulation

By Joshua Schneyer and Timothy Gardner
Reuters
Tuesday, May 24, 2011

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/25/cftc-oil-manipulation-idUSN242...

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