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John Crudele: How Washington will try to rig the stock market

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By John Crudele
New York Post
Tuesday, August 25, 2015

How long will it be before Washington decides to rig the U.S. stock market?

Well, it could have happened Monday around noon.

The U.S. Treasury admitted that it had been in touch with "market participants." Was that just a social call or was Treasury Secretary Jack Lew lining up his market manipulators?

Precious metals trading is probed by EU after U.S. inquiry

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By Gaspard Sebag Stephen Morris
Bloomberg News
Tuesday, August 25, 2015

European Union antitrust regulators are probing precious-metals trading following a U.S. investigation that embroiled some of the world's biggest banks.

The European Commission disclosed the probe after HSBC Holdings said in a filing this month that it had received a request for information from the EU in April.

On KWN, Embry discusses China crash and PPT's rescue of U.S. stocks

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8:10a ET Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Sprott Asset Management's John Embry, interviewed by King World News, discusses China's stock market crash and the work of the Plunge Protection Team in pushing the U.S. stock market back up on Monday. An excerpt from the interview is posted at the KWN blog here:

Please join GATA in New Orleans in October -- you really can't lose

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9:35p ET Monday, August 24, 2015

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Dave Kranzler: Gold vs. the U.S. dollar -- the big lie

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12:27p ET Monday, August 24, 2015

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Lost in today's turmoil in the equity markets, Dave Kranzler of Investment Research Dynamics writes, are a plunge in the value of the U.S. dollar and a surge in gold offtake from the Shanghai Gold Exchange. Kranzler's analysis is headlined "Gold vs. the U.S. Dollar: The Big Lie" and it's posted at the IRD Internet site here:

Deutsche Bank admits that the markets are just rigging by central banks

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12:19p ET Monday, August 24, 2015

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Zero Hedge today quotes a Deutsche Bank report asserting that the world financial system is "artificially manipulated" and relies on constant intervention by central banks. Zero Hedge also credits itself for having said as much six years ago:

Koos Jansen: Theory on China's gold strategy

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8a ET Monday, August 24, 2015

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Ben Davies: Another BRIC in the wall

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10:12p ET Sunday, August 23, 2015

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

India's imports of gold-silver alloy may almost double, refiner says

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By Rajendra Jadhav
Reuters
Saturday, August 22, 2015

PANAJI, India -- India's imports of dore, a semi-pure alloy of gold and silver, are rising fast and could nearly double this fiscal year, the head of the country's top gold refiner said on Saturday.

China's neighbors step up stock market support

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From Bloomberg News
Sunday, August 23, 2015

China isn't the only country resorting to extraordinary measures to shore up its tumbling stock market.

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