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Greg Canavan: The physical gold market -- from the weak to the strong

Date: 18:05 19/05/2012
Writing for the Australian edition of the Daily Reckoning, financial letter editor Greg Canavan explains how gold becomes scarcer even as the price of gold futures contracts -- paper gold -- is falling. He adds that governments try to control the gold price and thereby earns his tin-foil hat.

Jesse's Cafe Americain dismisses Doug Casey's 'canard'

Date: 02:54 19/05/2012
Jesse at Jesse's Cafe Americain today dismisses Doug Casey's skepticism about gold market manipulation. Jesse writes, "Anyone who can trot out the canard that a 'market is too big to be manipulated' does not engage my interest for very long." Jesse's commentary is posted here:

Andy Borowitz on the phoniness of the financial markets

Date: 22:06 18/05/2012
People wouldn't be investing in the monetary metals if they hadn't already concluded that the financial markets are now best described by the old song:

Only market manipulation props up Facebook IPO at first day's close

Date: 21:48 18/05/2012
Financial Times, London

Davies says gold smash is over; Sprott sees bank runs

Date: 21:31 18/05/2012
At King World News, gold fund manager Ben Davies describes what he sees as the mechanisms of the recent gold and silver smashdown and explains why he thinks it's over:

Morgan's trading losses rip off public because of ZIRP, Rickards says

Date: 15:36 18/05/2012
Interviewed yesterday by CNBC, geopolitical analyst James G. Rickards said JPMorganChase CEO Jamie Dimon should resign as "a point of honor" over the firm's huge recent trading losses in London. Rickards argues that the losses essentially rip off the public insofar as Morgan is a beneficiary of the monstrous transfer of wealth from savers to banks that has been implemented under the Federal Reserve's zero interest rate policy. Rickards' interview is posted at the CNBC video archive here:

Embargoes push Iran into remonetizing gold

Date: 15:26 18/05/2012
Reuters

Brett Heath: Paper gold and silver Ponzi exposed

Date: 15:20 18/05/2012
In a study reprinted at MineWeb, Brett Heath, managing partner at KSIR Capital in California, writes that certain technical indicators in the gold and silver markets are "screaming BS on the paper gold and silver game" and that we're nearing "a threshold point where the physical market breaks the back of the paper derivatives. Heath's study is headlined "Paper Gold and Silver Ponzi Exposed" and it's posted at MineWeb here:

JPMorgan unit has $100 billion in risky bonds

Date: 05:54 18/05/2012
Friday, May 18, 2012

Doug Casey: Precious metals market manipulation?

Date: 05:34 18/05/2012
In an essay posted Thursday at GoldSeek, financial writer Doug Casey of Casey Research asks for evidence of gold market manipulation and some explanation of its purpose. Casey's essay is headlined "Precious Metals Market Manipulation?" and it's posted here: