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Market-ticker.denninger.net/

What we have now are literal hundreds of trillions of dollars of fraudulent paper contracts to pay a sum that the writer does not have, written for speculative rather than hedging purposes. These contracts are destabilizing...

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jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/

If one submits to a single world or regional currency for domestic use, they may as well take their constitutions and individual rights and throw them away. And globalization has been serving as a proxy for this, paving the way.

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Underground Investor

The recently announced IMF sales of 191.3 tonnes of gold reserves, though it caused an immediate sharp knee-jerk reaction in gold futures markets, will have a negligible effect on the long-term price of gold. Here's why.

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Golden Jackass

A great disconnect exists in the gold market between the exchange futures contract price(the paper price) and the gold buillion paid price for transactions(the physical price). The differential in price is growing wider, enough to place tremendous p

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Follow the yellow brick road... Alan Greenspan and his wife (yes, he's married): http://www.forbes.com/2002/05/09/0509feat_5.html Alan Greenspan, note lack of GOLD wedding ring: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2276/2967599086_09467989a3.jpg No go

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Reuters

Gold prices sealed their biggest yearly gain in three decades with a small advance on Thursday, rising for an unprecedented ninth consecutive year as dollar-hedging traders and central banks joined the rally even as safe-haven buying subsided.

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Ottawa Citizen

More than $3 million in government gold was unwittingly sold off at a fraction of its value as refinery slag, while $8 million more was miscounted and never left the Royal Canadian Mint, the Crown corporation revealed today in a full accounting

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Mint News Blog

In a return to the situation experienced during most of 2008 and the first half of 2009, the limited number of gold and silver bullion coins available from the US Mint are subject to rationing. US Mint bullion coins are not sold directly to the publ

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Reuters

Spot gold rose 1% to $1,208.70 amid a broad rally in commodities on expectations of rising global demand, fueled by upbeat US home sales and analysts' forecasts that China's economy could grow by 10% or more this quarter. Gold was also supported by w

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kitco.com

In October, the Hong Kong bankers discovered some gold bars shipped from the United States were actually tungsten with gold plating. This is the exact same Modus Operandi as the silver clad zinc dimes from 45 years ago.

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godlikeproductions.com

It's one thing to counterfeit a twenty or hundred dollar bill. The amount of financial damage is usually limited to a specific region and only affects dozens of people and thousands of dollars. Secret Service agents quickly notify the banks on how t

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AFP

The International Monetary Fund said Wednesday it had sold 10 tonnes of gold to Sri Lanka's central bank for $375 million as part of a restructuring of IMF financial resources. It was the third IMF sale of gold in a month as the Washington-based ins

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Reuters

Gold prices hit record highs above $1,180 an ounce in Europe on Wednesday, boosted by the euro's move through $1.50 against the dollar and by a report that India may consider buying more bullion from the IMF. Spot gold hit a high of $1,182.70 an o

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Reuters

Gold hit a record high at $1,167.45 an ounce on Monday as dollar weakness pushed the metal through key technical resistance levels, fuelling momentum buying after the metal's sharp run higher earlier this month. Spot gold was bid at $1,165.45 an o

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War Street Journal

Demand for gold coins and bars, already strong as the price of gold sets records, could rise as the US Mint is set to resume selling certain types of gold coins Dec. 3. Last year, the Mint had to halt sales of half, quarter- and tenth-ounce coins

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Reuters

Gold rose to record highs above $1,150 an ounce on Wednesday as the dollar index languished, boosting interest in the metal as an alternative asset, after largely benign U.S. inflation data. The metal is likely to break through to further highs in co

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Stock House

Gold traders have their eyes on two non-confirmations that so far have refused to "answer" gold's push to new all time nominal highs -- the relative price of silver to gold and the performance to the equities of mining companies. Silver is lagging

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Bloomberg

Mauritius bought 2 metric tons of gold from the International Monetary Fund, underscoring a drive by central banks to boost holdings as the precious metal trades near a record and the dollar slumps. The $71.7 million sale to the

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