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Somebody besides GATA calls attention to the Bank for International Settlements

Section: Daily Dispatches

9:34p ET Saturday, April 11, 2015

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Zero Hedge tonight publishes a long excerpt from what may be the most recent serious treatment of the Bank for International Settlements, the 2013 book "Tower of Basel: The Shadowy History of the Secret Bank That Runs the World" by Adam LeBor --

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-04-11/meet-secretive-group-runs-world

Deutsche Bank nears plea deal over Libor manipulation

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Ben Protess and Jessica Silver-Greenberg
The New York Times
Thursday, April 9, 2015

A long-running investigation into Wall Street's manipulation of interest rates is heading into a stark final chapter as authorities around the globe push Deutsche Bank to pay a record penalty and accept a criminal guilty plea for the unit at the center of the case.

Alasdair Macleod: Confusion over U.S. unemployment

Section: Daily Dispatches

12:15p ET Friday, April 10, 2015

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

U.S. unemployment statistics are so unreliable that they never should be used as economic indicators, GoldMoney research director Alasdair Macleod writes today. His commentary is headlined "Confusion over U.S. Unemployment" and it's posted at GoldMoney here:

Tocqueville's strategy letter: Gold is as contrarian as it was in 1999

Section: Daily Dispatches

8:30a ET Friday, April 10, 2015

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

India's rich temples may open gold vaults for Prime Minister Modi

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Meenakshi Sharma and Krishna N. Das
Reuters
Thursday, April 9, 2015

The two-century-old Shree Siddhivinayak temple in Mumbai devoted to the Hindu elephant-headed god Ganesha bristles with closed-circuit cameras and is guarded by 65 security officers.

Torgny Persson: Pro-gold governments and central banks

Section: Daily Dispatches

7:15a ET Friday, April 9, 2015

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Pam and Russ Martens: Americans don't trust the Fed because it's too secretive

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Pam and Russ Martens
Wall Street on Parade, New York
Wednesday, April 8, 2015

Having defeated the Crown in a bloody revolution some two centuries ago, Americans don't like living under a patriarchy, oligarchy or kleptocracy. Unfortunately, the U.S. central bank, the Federal Reserve, is a little of all three.

James McShirley: 11 rules for gold price suppression

Section: Daily Dispatches

By James McShirley
www.LeMetropoleCafe.com
Wednesday, April 8, 2015

1. Daily gold gains are capped at 1 percent (limit up) or 2 percent (expanded limit up).

2. Gold isn't allowed to have any follow-through rallies.

Somebody is regularly profiting by front-running the Reserve Bank of Australia

Section: Daily Dispatches

ASIC Looks at RBA over Currency Trading Anomaly

By Vesna Poljiak
Sydney Morning Herald
Wednesday, April 8, 2015

Unusual trading in the Australian dollar seconds ahead of each of the past three Reserve Bank of Australia policy outcomes could be a result of insider leaks, automated algorithmic trading during a market lull, or shrewd guesses.

A billion dollars disappears from little Moldova's banking system

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Mihaela Rodina
Agence France-Presse
via Yahoo News
Wednesday, April 8, 2015

CHISINAU, Moldova -- A billion dollars is a lot for Europe's poorest state of Moldova -- particularly when it disappears.

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