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Some Answers to Doug Casey’s Questions

April 13, 2012 – In the April edition of The Casey Report, Doug Casey tackles the matter of gold price manipulation. He does this in an ...


The Myths and Reality of Gold Confiscation

November 23, 2011 – There are a number of common misconceptions about the gold confiscation foisted on the American people by President Franklin ...


Deciphering the BIS gold swap

July 29, 2010 – Much has been made recently of the news that the BIS last year completed a 380-tonne gold swap with an unnamed commercial bank. ...


Is the IMF’s Gold Really There?

May 5, 2010 – Much has been made over the gold purportedly owned and controlled by the IMF.  There are many unanswered questions about this ...


Another Short Squeeze in the Precious Metals

April 12, 2010 – On August 16, 1999, I recounted how legendary traders Jim Fisk and Jay Gould had profited handsomely from a massive short ...


A “New Dynamic” in the Gold Market

April 1, 2010 – The shorts in gold – and particularly the shorts in silver – felt some pain today.  Gold climbed $11.80 to ...


Expect More Volatility

August 24, 2009 - I expect considerably more volatility in the markets in the months ahead, particularly for gold and silver. Once gold climbs above ...


A Short History of the Gold Cartel

May 4,2009 - This week Bill Murphy and Chris Powell, co-founders of the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee (www.gata.org), will be in London, England. ...


The US Gold Reserve is Now in Play

October 16, 2007 - I have long suspected that the US Gold Reserve is being used by the gold cartel as a tool to help it try capping the gold price. ...


The Battle for $700 Rages On

May 28, 2007 - I am writing this newsletter one week earlier than planned because several markets are at critical points. In short, there is simply ...


The Battle for $700

May 14, 2007 - We have a battle on our hands. It';s the Battle for $700, and it is just the latest clash in a long war being fought between gold ...


Gold's Infallible Indicator

May 7, 2007 - Wouldn't it be wonderful if there was an indicator that accurately predicted when the price of gold was about to rise? Well, here's ...


My Letter to the Editor of the Financial Times

February 19, 2007 - On January 15th the Financial Times published a series of questions from its readers about gold that were answered by James ...


You Need to Know What GATA Knows

Sept 15, 2006 - "People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy ...


The 'Barbarous Relic' - It's Not What You Think

Sept 14, 2005  - I'm no fan of John Maynard Keynes. I find most of his economic theories to be just plain wrong. But for the sake of truth and ...


Get Ready!

August 29, 2005 - It seems like yesterday, but it was six years ago when after describing the gold squeeze engineered by legendary traders Jim Fisk ...


Picking the Market's Pocket, Part Two

July 27, 2005 - I carefully explained in the last letter how the gold cartel has been picking the pockets of gold traders.  We’ve just ...


Picking the Market's Pocket Again

July 12, 2005 - Alan Greenspan gets blamed for many things. You know the usual drill - interest rates are too high, inflation is getting worse, the ...


Is the Gold Price Being Managed?

March 15, 2005 - On March 10th GATA (www.gata.org) issued a press release that presented an analysis of the gold market prepared by Dan Norcini, a ...


The Truth Behind the Proposal to Sell IMF Gold

February 21, 2005 - The International Monetary Fund supposedly owns about 3,200 tonnes of gold. I say 'supposedly' purposefully, because like the ...


How Does the Gold Cartel Pick Pockets?

July 27, 2004 - How does the gold cartel pick pockets?  One way works like this.  There is a huge pool of capital – running ...


Manipulating the Gold Market

July 26, 2004 - I hope that you subscribe to and read the gold market commentaries of Bill Murphy and his associates that are posted almost daily at ...


How Governments Manipulate the Gold Market - A Primer

October 6, 2003 - After gold trading closed in New York on Friday $13.70 lower from the previous day, a Reuters article gave the following reason for ...


The IMF - Again

May 5, 2003 - You can always count on the International Monetary Fund to bash gold. It is a reliable servant to those who would like to keep the gold ...


More Proof

April 21, 2003 - One of the statistics complied by the International Monetary Fund is the quantity of gold owned by the world's central banks. That ...


Gold and the CRB Index

September 23, 2002 - Though every market is different in that each one is driven by its own unique factors affecting supply and demand, there are ...


Reviewing the Evidence

September 22, 2002 - I was recently given an interesting challenge. An Australian friend of mine named Laurie McGuirk, a hedge fund manager with an ...


Letters from D.C.

August 5, 2002 - There has been a flurry of letters from the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department responding to various enquiries about the ...


Howe vs BIS

April 1, 2002 - The long awaited ruling from Judge Lindsay has arrived. All claims against the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and the other ...


Central Bank Poppycock

February 20, 2002 - In just a few weeks the Bank of England will conclude the bi-monthly gold sales that it began in 1999. I've been thinking a lot ...


Another Rally Snuffed Out

January 28, 2002 - It happened yet again. That same $292 barrier that has stopped so many rallies in the past has proven insurmountable yet one more ...


The Mystery of the Disappearing SDR Certificates

August 13, 2001 - Here's a mystery for you. It ranks high with any of the great thrillers solved by Sherlock Holmes, but this one is not fiction. I ...


The Smoking Gun

December 11, 2000 - The June 1972 break-in at the Democratic headquarters in the Watergate building in Washington, DC, seemed at the time suspicious ...


Playing With Fire

September 11, 2000 - Readers will recall that one year ago I took a very strong view that the Gold market was about to experience a sharp short ...


More Word Games from the US Treasury

March 27, 2000 - In an article entitled "Managing Markets" published in Letter No. 203 on April 21, 1997, I began to voice my growing ...


We Inch Closer to the Truth

January 24, 2000 - In Letter #233 ("Grist for Conspiracy Theorists", October 26, 1998), I laid out my view - now well known to the readers ...


Losing Control

January 10, 2000 - Central Banks Control the Gold Market? I offered in that report what I still believe to be an accurate and exhaustive analysis of ...


A Fraud, By Any Other Name Would Still Smell

September 20, 1999 - "It is precisely when a free gold market is needed that most modern governments seek to suppress it. For it reflects and ...


Move Over Fisk & Gould

August 16, 1999 – In 1869, Jim Fisk and Jay Gould tried to corner the gold market, and for a time, this notorious duo succeeded. It is a ...


The Big Squeeze

August 16, 1999 – If I’ve learned anything over the years, it is to not underestimate the power of central banks and their willingness to ...


Supplies Tighten Further, Rationing Begins

February 8, 1999 - Several months ago I put forward a very simple proposition. In Letter #233 ("Grist for the Conspiracy Theorists", October ...


Op-Ed Opposites

November 24, 1997 - Two op-ed articles about Gold appeared last week in two of London's leading newspapers. The timing is not surprising. Given the ...


Managing Markets

April 21, 1997 - A distinguishing feature of the twentieth century has been the emergence of the Nation-State, and most of these territorial entities ...

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