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Precious Metals Manipulation Worse Than Libor Scandal, German Regulator Says
It may be time to shift yet another conspiracy "theory" into the "fact" bin, thanks to Elke Koenig, the president of Germany's top financial regulator, Bafin, which apparently is not as corrupt, complicit and clueless as its US equivalent, and who said that in addition to currency rates, manipulation of precious metals "is worse than the Libor-rigging scandal." Hear that Bart Chilton and friends from the CFTC?
The allegations about the currency and precious metals markets are “particularly serious, because such reference values are based -- unlike Libor and Euribor -- typically on transactions in liquid markets and not on estimates of the banks,” Elke Koenig, the president of Bafin, said in a speech in Frankfurt today
It's easy to complain about it when you are the one getting screwed. I'm guessing that Germany isn't getting their gold repatriated to their satisfaction.
I haven't posted a lot in a while, because whenever I start to follow gold, it always feels like the lid is just about to come off, and yet the saga just seems to go on...
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I haven't posted a lot in a while, because whenever I start to follow gold, it always feels like the lid is just about to come off, and yet the saga just seems to go on...
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It makes the exchanges on the pm forums a lot slower because there really isnt much that hasnt already been said many times.
Which is why we need to make the effort to maintain communication.
I miss the buzz that we had here but am confident it will return when we finally start to see 'the lid coming off'
Germany and Europe's largest bank, Deutsche Bank, which announced that it would withdraw from the appropriately named gold and silver price "fixing", as European regulators investigate suspected manipulation of precious metals prices by banks.
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Especially useful would be reports re shortages of gold coins at the retail level (affects us here) as well as reports of shortages at the 400 oz bar levels...
Trouble is, because ( I suspect ) we are all feeling the same emotional response to the 'never quite getting there', weve become like the kids in the car. Weve stopped asking 'how much further' and dropped into that dull accepting mind state, knowing that we will eventually get there.
It makes the exchanges on the pm forums a lot slower because there really isnt much that hasnt already been said many times.
Which is why we need to make the effort to maintain communication.
I miss the buzz that we had here but am confident it will return when we finally start to see 'the lid coming off'
Regarding "buzz" - I'd much rather converse with a few smart people than be in a shouting match with thousands of idiots. That's just me. And that's what we have here.
. On December 24, a year after the Bundesbank announced its stunning decision...to repatriate 674 tons of gold from the New York Fed and the French Central Bank, it had managed to transfer a paltry 37 tons
However, what will certainly not help mute "conspiracy theorists" is today's update from today's edition of Die Welt, in which we learn that only a tiny 5 tons of gold were sent from the NY Fed. The rest came from Paris.
"The Bundesbank explained [the low amount of US gold] by saying that the transports from Paris are simpler and therefore were able to start
:rotflmbo:we wonder: how exactly is a gold transport "simpler" because it originates in Paris and not in New York? Or does the NY Fed gold travel by car along the bottom of the Atlantic, and is French gold transported by a Vespa scooter out of the country?
Dang, I guess I should leave since I am not a very smart person. :rotflmbo::rotflmbo::rotflmbo:
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