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The attack on gold-update

Posted by seumasach on May 1, 2013

Paul Craig Roberts

Institute for Political Economy

16th April, 2013

April 18 Note: At the online retailer Gainesville coins, and everywhere else, the increased premiums above the spot price of gold and silver indicate that the demand for bullion possession, that is, the demand for the metal itself, is greater than the price established in the paper market by manipulation.

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Assault on gold update

Posted by seumasach on April 14, 2013

Paul Craig Roberts

Institute for Political Economy

13th April, 2013

I was the first to point out that the Federal Reserve was rigging all markets, not merely bond prices and interest rates, and that the Fed is rigging the bullion market in order to protect the US dollar’s exchange value, which is threatened by the Fed’s quantitative easing. With the Fed adding to the supply of dollars faster than the demand for dollars is increasing, the price or exchange value of the dollar is set up to fall.

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The Assault On Gold

Posted by seumasach on April 8, 2013

Paul Craig Roberts

Institute for Political Economy

4th April, 2013

For Americans, financial and economic Armageddon might be close at hand. The evidence for this conclusion is the concerted effort by the Federal Reserve and its dependent financial institutions to scare people away from gold and silver by driving down their prices.

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Revealed: why Gordon Brown sold Britain’s gold at a knock-down price

Posted by seumasach on July 13, 2012

Telegraph

5th July, 2012

A great deal of Gordon Brown’s economic strategy would strike a sane man as troubling. Not a great deal was mysterious. The orgy of consumption spending, frequent extensions of the cycle over which he would “borrow to invest”, proclamations of the “end of boom and bust”: these are part of the armoury of modern politicians, of all political hues.

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