Thursday, March 12, 2009

GATA: Gold Suppression Scheme Nears End

Russian Media (Russian Today) interviews Adrian Douglas, financial analyst and the director of the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee on the supposed gold suppression scheme.

Watch the video and read parts of the transcript here

Some noteworthy excerpts from the interview,

``The whole mechanism for this has been described in a paper by Lawrence Summers, who was ex-Secretary of the Treasury, but when he was professor of the economics of Harvard University he wrote a paper called "The Gibson paradox and the gold standard". In that research he explains how in a freely traded gold market the real interest rates and the gold price should move in inverse relationship to each other. In other words, if trust rates are low, the gold price should be high and visa versa.

``What we've seen through the 90s and most of this decade is that we've had a low gold price and low interest rates. So, the conclusion we made was that the gold market is not freely traded and it has been suppressed..

``Yes, the Western central banks, with the leaders of federal reserves and governments, have investigated this scheme of suppressing the gold price. And this is what is at the core of the strong dollar policy. If you can suppress the gold price and not make it a free market then you can have low interest rates and a low gold price.

``The low gold price essentially switches off the alarm in the financial system. What the purpose of the strong dollar was so that the US Government could issue lots of dollars without the alarm bells going off. The benefit for the US has been to live beyond their means. They managed to import goods from foreign countries and they have paid for them essentially with overvalued treasure debt. And they have even been so successful they have convinced other central banks that US treasure debt is a reserve asset. Now central banks around the world are sitting on trillions of dollars of treasure debt as a reserve asset which has a huge counterparty risk now of the American government – they will not repay it."


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