9:45a ET Thursday, May 26, 2011
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold (and Silver):
Silver market analyst Ted Butler writes this week that the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, exchange owner CME Group, JPMorgan Chase & Co., and silver ETF manager BlackRock are now all complicit in the manipulation of the silver market but silver investors are [...]
12:08a ET Thursday, May 26, 2011
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Bernard von NotHaus, creator of the Liberty Dollar, was convicted in March in federal court in North Carolina of three federal felonies related to his issuance of a private currency in gold and silver. The prosecutor claimed that the U.S. Constitution gives the U.S. government [...]
By Francesca Freeman
The Wall Street Journal
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230452080457634555143102685…
LONDON — Investors are closer to being able to use gold as a trading security after a European parliamentary committee approved a proposal to allow clearing houses to accept gold as collateral, the World Gold Council said Wednesday.
The European Parliament’s Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs Tuesday [...]