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Brien Lundin: Koos Jansen is the best authority on Chinese gold demand

Section: Daily Dispatches

10:37a ET Friday, October 2, 2015

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Gold Newsletter editor Brien Lundin this week praised gold researcher and GATA consultant Koos Jansen as the best authority on gold demand in China. Lundin's commentary, published in Gold Newsletter's Alert 792, is excerpted with permission below.

CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer
Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.

Bron Suchecki: Yet another precious metal manipulation investigation

Section: Daily Dispatches

8:47a ET Friday, October 2, 2015

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Perth Mint research director Bron Suchecki notes today that more than 20 reviews or investigations of gold market manipulation have been reported since 2013 but only the one involving a trader at Barclays has found such manipulation, and the Barclays case was pretty small.

Koos Jansen: Russia, China aim to unseat the world reserve currency

Section: Daily Dispatches

10:24p ET Thursday, October 1, 2015

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Alasdair Macleod: NIRP -- Its likelihood and effect on commodities

Section: Daily Dispatches

3:34p ET Thursday, October 1, 2015

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Dave Kranzler: Gold manipulation and conflict gold

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Dave Kranzler
Investment Research Dynamics, Denver, Colorado
Thursday, October 1, 2015

The king of high-frequency trading, Nanex's Eric Hunsader, has been on a crusade lately to expose the problematic and illegal manipulative side of high-frequency/algo-driven trading. Nowhere is the manipulation of any market more blatant and in-your-face illegal than in the paper gold market.

Financial Times notices that central banks are taking over the world

Section: Daily Dispatches

Carney on Climate: Central Bankers Stray from Mandate

By Ferdinando Giugliano
Financial Times, London
Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Mervyn King, the former Bank of England governor, said "a successful central bank should be boring."

Silver coin shortage shows bright side of precious metal collapse

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Marcy Nicholson, A. Ananthalakshmi, and Jan Harvey
Reuters
Thursday, October 1, 2015

The global silver-coin market is in the grips of an unprecedented supply squeeze, forcing some mints to ration sales and step up overtime while sending U.S. buyers racing abroad to fulfill a sudden surge in demand.

Bron Suchecki: Blame the carpenter or the tool?

Section: Daily Dispatches

7:36a ET Thursday, October 1, 2015

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Replying to your secretary/treasurer, Perth Mint research director Bron Suchecki today defends the "financialization" of markets and particularly the financialization of the gold market, arguing that it has provided the advantage of leverage to retail investors.

But as your secretary/treasurer argued the other day --

Charging into the Yukon's new gold rush

Section: Daily Dispatches

By James Kwantes
Vancouver Sun, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Tuesday, September 29, 2015

DAWSON CITY, Yukon Territory, Canada -- It is possible to travel by boat for hours down the Yukon River to Dawson City without spotting another human, although you will likely see moose and black bears -- and if you're lucky, a grizzly.

Rights group: Filipino child miners risk lives in gold mines

Section: Daily Dispatches

This is what happens when gold price suppression makes it impossible for easily regulatable corporations to mine gold responsibly in accordance with worker-safety and environmental-protection regulations. Wildcatters go into the business without any concern for protecting people or the environment.

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By Teresa Cerojano
Associated Press
via MSNBC, New York

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