Gold market – accident waiting to happen or crime scene?
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October 25th, 2009 by Prieur du Plessis, Investment Postcards from Cape Town
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The report below comes courtesy of the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee (GATA).
“Market analyst Paul Mylchreest, who wrote the 2006 report for Credit Agricole’s Cheuvreux brokerage house concluding that the gold market was being manipulated surreptitiously by central banks and, the following year, a similar report for Redburn Partners, has revisited the gold market in a study for his own analysis service, the Thunder Road Report.
“Mylchreest examines the gold traded in the world’s biggest gold market, London, and concludes that either a tiny amount of real metal is supporting a spectacular volume of paper trades, “an accident waiting to happen”, or else that the world’s gold supply is spectacularly larger than officially acknowledged and the London gold market has been used in recent years to launder questionably obtained gold, perhaps the fabled “Yamashita’s gold” plundered from Asia by the Japanese military during World War II, in which case the London gold market is a “crime scene”.
“Mylchreest’s report is fascinating and as conscientious as the obscurantism of the gold world allows.”
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Source: Chris Powell, GATA, October 16, 2009.
Dr. Prieur du Plessis is an investment professional with 26 years' experience in investment research and portfolio management. More than 1,200 of his articles on investment-related topics have been published in various regular newspaper, journal and Internet columns, including his blog, Investment Postcards from Cape Town. He has also published a book, Financial Basics: Investment. Prieur is Chairman and principal shareholder of South African-based Plexus Asset Management, which he founded in 1995. The group conducts investment management, investment consulting, private equity and real estate activities in South Africa and a number of foreign countries. He also serves as Honorary Consul of Slovenia for South Africa, actively developing economic, cultural and scientific relations between Slovenia and South Africa. Prieur is 54 years old and live with his wife, television producer and presenter Isabel Verwey, and two children in Cape Town, South Africa. His leisure activities include long-distance running, traveling, reading, motor-cycling and scripophily. Read more from the author/contributor here.
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