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Hemke: Metals market rigging didn't end today; Grandich recalls two lying shills

Section: Daily Dispatches

4:06p ET Tuesday, September 29, 2020

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Don't think for a moment, the TF Metals Report's Craig Hemke writes today at Sprott Money, that manipulation and corruption in the monetary metals markets will stop with JPMorganChase's admission of rigging them and the bank's paying a $920 million fine.

Inside the JPMorgan trading desk the U.S. called a crime ring

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Tom Schoenberg
Bloomberg News
Monday, September 28, 2020

Last week's smash gained bullion banks little, Macleod tells KWN

Section: Daily Dispatches

2:05p ET Sunday, September 27, 2020

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

In comments at King World News, GoldMoney research director Alasdair Macleod says last week's smashing of gold by bullion banks in the futures market failed to produce enough selling to allow them to close many of their short positions.

Bank of England official defends negative rates as recovery is 'interrupted'

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By Lizzy Burden
The Telegraph, London
Sunday, September 27, 2020

The Bank of England has stoked expectations of an unprecedented move to negative interest rates as new pandemic restrictions cast a shadow over the recovery.

Former Deutsche Bank gold traders found guilty in spoofing trial

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By Janan Hanna and Stephen Joyce
Bloomberg News
Friday, September 25, 2020

Prosecutors behind a sweeping U.S. crackdown on market "spoofing" scored a big win Friday when former Deutsche Bank AG traders Cedric Chanu and James Vorley were convicted of fraud for manipulating gold and silver prices.

Lousy week for monetary metals prompts Sprott to quote GATA secretary

Section: Daily Dispatches

9p ET Friday, September 25, 2020

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Beginning his review of a lousy week for the monetary monetary metals with Craig Hemke for Sprott Money, mining entrepreneur Eric Sprott quotes your secretary/treasurer's observation at GATA's Washington conference in 2008: "There are no markets anymore, just interventions." (See: http://gata.org/node/6242.)

Hugo Salinas Price: A tale of two revolutions

Section: Daily Dispatches

8:13p ET Friday, September 25, 2020

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Ron Paul recovering after stroke-like incident

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From CNN.com, New York
Friday, September 25, 2020

Former Texas congressman Ron Paul was hospitalized today after an apparent medical episode but is now "doing fine," according to a tweet posted to his Twitter account.

Former U.S. Rep. Ron Paul hospitalized for 'precautionary' reasons

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By Lee Ross and Megan Henney
Fox News, New York
Friday, November 25, 2020

Ron Paul, the former Republican U.S. representative who ran for president three times, was hospitalized today in Texas for "precautionary" reasons, Fox News has learned.

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