Toby Connor: Manipulation, fact or fantasy?

11p ET Tuesday, March 30, 2010 Dear Friend of GATA and Gold: Toby Connor, editor of the Gold Scents market letter, yesterday threw out a challenge to those who complain that the gold market is manipulated. In an essay headlined “Manipulation, Fact or Fantasy?,” Connor wrote: “If gold is being manipulated by the powers that [...]

Brad Zigler: Another Monday, another gold manipulation notion

10:28 ET Monday, February 22, 2010 Dear Friend of GATA and Gold: In commentary posted today at Hard Assets Investor, Managing Editor Brad Zigler quickly replies with gross misrepresentation to his own publication’s recent interview with Andrew Schectman of coin and bullion Miles Franklin Ltd., which was called to your attention today (http://www.gata.org/node/8360). At issue [...]

GATA is right about gold manipulation, Hathaway tells King World News

10:27p ET Friday, October 23, 2009 Dear Friend of GATA and Gold (and Silver): Eric King of King World News today did an excellent interview with Tocqueville Gold Fund manager John Hathaway, who remarked that GATA is right about government manipulation of the gold market and that circumstances are developing for an “astonishing” rise in [...]

History Rhymes and Old Habits Die Hard

By ROB KIRBY, Financial Sense Over the past couple weeks some interesting historical documents relating to the gold market have surfaced. First up is Zero Hedge’s, Exclusive Smoking Gun: The Fed On Gold Manipulation which features an official document uncovered by researcher/historian Geoffrey Batt – a June 3, 1975 memorandum from Fed Chairman Arthur Burns to [...]

Exclusive Smoking Gun: The Fed On Gold Manipulation

By Tyler Durden, Zero Hedge Zero Hedge has recently presented several declassified documents from the pre-1971 “Nixon Shock” days, that endorse the case for gold as a major historical factor in US monetary and foreign policy, as demonstrated by State Departmentand CIA disclosure. Gold’s special status in policy and administrative decision-making was a direct factor in Nixon’s choice to [...]

Gold Manipulation Set to End?

Bullion Vault What might happen to gold if the apparent ‘short’ position of US banks is curtailed…? FOR A DECADE AND MORE, J.P.Morgan Chase, Citigroup, Bank of America and Goldman Sachs have been accused by groups like GATA and others of holding wide and huge short positions against gold and silver, writes Julian Phillips of [...]

Gold Manipulation Redux

Hard Assets Investor submits: By Brad Zigler We at HardAssetsInvestor.com (HardAssetsInvestor.com) often hear the volume level rise precipitously in the conversation whenever the words "gold" and "manipulation" are strung together in the same sentence. So it was no surprise that the recent publication of “Has Gold Been Manipulated?” excited the chattering classes. The article questioned [...]

Manipulation of the Gold Market

Hard Assets Investor submits: Brad Zigler’s recent feature, “Has Gold Been Manipulated?“, which dismissed the possibility of price manipulation in the gold market, ignited a firestorm of comments and emails from our readers. That’s why we decided to sit down with Bill Murphy, chairman and director of the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee [GATA], and hear [...]

Gold Manipulation: Theory & Opinion

The theory of gold-market manipulation put to the test… WRITING ARTICLES on gold and precious metals can be an unending job, says Brad Zigler at Hard Assets Investor. The time spent researching and composing the piece often seems short compared with the investment required to field questions and defend one’s reasoning. Gold, for example, seems to excite [...]

Peter Degraaf: Does manipulation render technical analysis obsolete?

By  Peter Degraaf, Gold-Eagle Hardly day goes by without one of my subscribers asking me the above question. In this article I will attempt to provide some answers. The fact that manipulation exists has been well documented; first by Frank Veneroso, later by John Embry, while he was Portfolio Manager at RBC Global Investment Fund. [...]

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