The Gold Cartel [electronic resource] : Government Intervention on Gold, the Mega Bubble in Paper, and What This Means for Your Future /
Speck, D.author.
The Gold Cartel is an insightful and thought-provoking analysis of the world market for gold, how it works, and what influences gold price. But it also lends insight into something more disturbing - the organized intervention in the gold markets by Central Banks.
Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 WhyGold?; 2 The Crises of the 1990s; 3 The Strange Behaviour of Gold during Crises; 4 The Strange Intraday Behaviour of Gold; 5 The First Statistical Studies; 6 Statistical Proof and Dating of Gold Interventions; 7 Intraday Movements of the Gold Price 1986-2012; 8 Gold is Different; 9 Means of Gold Market Intervention I: Sales; 10 Means of Gold Intervention II: Gold Lending; 11 The Gold Carry Trade; 12 Coordination of Private Banks and Central Banks; 13 Giving the Game Away: Central Bankers are Human Beings Too
14 The Books are Silent15 The Miraculous Gold Multiplication; 16 How Much Gold is on Loan Worldwide?; 17 Means of Gold Intervention III: Intervention through the Futures Market; 18 The Gold Pool and Other Gold Market Interventions before 1993; 19 5 August 1993, 8.27 a.m. EST: The Beginning of Systematic Gold Market Interventions; 20 The Decisive Fed Meeting; 21 Greenspan Ponders Gold Market Interventions; 22 Phases of Gold Price Suppression; 23 Shock and Awe; 24 The Financial Market Crisis of 2008 and the Euro Crisis of 2011; 25 Strong Dollar and Weak Mining Stocks
26 Interventions in the Silver Market27 Swapped Bundesbank Gold and Other Mysteries; 28 Who Intervenes?; 29 The Mystery of 18 May 2001, 12.31; 30 The Effects of Gold Price Suppression; 31 The Wonderful World of Bubbles; 32 Have Many Mini-Bubbles Created a Mega-Bubble?; 33 Money or Credit?; 34 Possible Scenarios for the Future; 35 Back to Gold; Appendices; Notes; Index
Includes index.
The Gold Cartel is an insightful and thought-provoking analysis of the world market for gold, how it works, and what influences gold price. But it also lends insight into something more disturbing - the organized intervention in the gold markets by Central Banks.
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