How central banks use ETFs to keep gold down: Izabella Kaminska

Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2011-09-27 04:06. Section: Daily Dispatches

12:07a ET Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Market analyst Izabella Kaminska this month examined the collapse in gold lease rates and concluded that central banks likely have been trying to stuff gold into the market by various back doors, resulting in the placement of borrowed gold at exchange-traded funds like GLD and thus in gold price [...]

Chamber Of Commerce’s Top SCOTUS Litigator Admits Justices Give Special Treatment to Chamber.

by Atypical

A recent study co-authored by conservative Court of Appeals Judge Richard Posner confirms something that has been obvious to Supreme Court watchers for years — the Roberts Court places a huge thumb on the scale in favor of corporate interests. According to the study, the Roberts Court rules in favor of business interests 61 percent of the time, a 15 point spike from the [...]

BATTLE OVER ’9/11′ PROFITS; MOORE SUES STUDIO

UPDATED & EXPANDED: At least multimillionaire Michael Moore didn’t have the chutzpah to sue Harvey and Bob Weinstein in a court in New York City where they’re based. Because I bet there’s no way a jury in the urban center that suffered through the attack on the World Trade Center twin towers would give Moore a penny. Today, Moore filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court for breach [...]