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Gold market manipulation: Why, how, and how long? (2021 edition)

Section: Daily Dispatches

1:36p ET Wednesday, February 17, 2021

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Your secretary/treasurer's presentation this week to the Gold Week Africa Conference streamed from Lagos, Nigeria, was dispatched to you a few minutes ago, but you may find that the full text is too long for your e-mail server.

Ronan Manly: Silver ETF SIVR worries more about shorts than its own investors

Section: Daily Dispatches

11:50p ET Tuesday, January 16, 2021

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Bullion Star researcher Ronan Manly writes tonight that the Aberdeen Standard Physical Silver Shares exchange-traded fund (SIVR) seems fearful that silver prices might increase, damaging banks that are "substantially short" even though a price increase would profit the fund's own investors.

Craig Hemke at Sprott Money: A silver price manipulation primer

Section: Daily Dispatches

6:35p ET Tuesday, February 16, 2021

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Craig Hemke of the TF Metals Report, writing tonight at Sprott Money, provides a compendium on manipulation of silver prices by bullion banks, about which he has been writing for years.

Stansberry Research's Daniela Cambone does another interview about market manipulation

Section: Daily Dispatches

4:45p ET Tuesday, January 16, 2021

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

"Rich Dad, Poor Dad" author and market provocateur Robert Kiyosaki today joins the parade of people interviewed by Stansberry Research's Daniela Cambone about manipulation of the monetary metals markets. How times have changed.

The interview is 20 minutes long and can be seen at YouTube here:

'Downfall' of the anti-silver cabal

Section: Daily Dispatches

4:25p ET Tuesday, January 16, 2021

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

If you can stand another parody of the Hitler nervous breakdown scene from the movie "Downfall," Reddit's silver advocates have produced one that's fairly funny and gives credit to mining entrepreneur Eric Sprott as the enemy of all evildoers in the monetary metals markets.

Another silver ETF cites campaign against shorts, but doesn't express concern about obtaining metal

Section: Daily Dispatches

2:44p ET Tuesday, February 16, 2021

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Bullion Star's researchers note via Twitter today that another silver exchange-traded fund, the Aberdeen Standard Silver ETF Trust (SIVR), has updated its prospectus to take note of the recent internet campaign to attack shorts in silver.

Fed official dismisses bitcoin and gold but worries about privately issued currency

Section: Daily Dispatches

Bitcoin Poses No Threat to the Dollar as the World's Currency Leader, Fed's Bullard Says

By Kevin Stankiewicz
CNBC, New York
Tuesday, February 16, 2021

St. Louis Federal Reserve President James Bullard told CNBC today he believes that increasing interest in bitcoin does not pose a serious threat to the U.S. dollar as the world's reserve currency.

Dave Kranzler: The iShares silver 'trust' SLV is likely a fraud

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By Dave Kranzler
Investment Research Dynamics, Denver
Tuesday, February 16, 2021

Those of us who read the original filings for the gold exchange-traded fund GLD and the silver exchange-traded fund SLV were shocked that the prospectus for each was certified by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

FX rigging may have spread to 200 chat rooms, lawyer says

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By Ellen Milligan
Bloomberg News
Monday, February 15, 2021

Traders may have used as many as 200 online chat rooms to rig foreign exchange rates, far more than previously thought, a lawyer for investors told a London court today.

Prospectus change frees SLV to detach its price from silver, Turk tells KWN

Section: Daily Dispatches

5:09p ET Sunday, February 14, 2021

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

In comments today at King World News, GoldMoney founder and GATA consultant James Turk construes last week's amendment to the prospectus of the exchange-traded silver fund SLV to mean that fund can detach its share price from silver and make the price "whatever the managers want it to be."

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