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Davos Is Making The Central Bank Case For Gold

• Zero Hedge

Authored by Tom Luongo via Gold, Goats, 'n Guns blog,

A few months ago I talked about the upcoming changes to the way adoption of Basel III's new bank reserve rules would alter the gold market.

In short my conclusion was similar to that of Alistair MacLeod's and others, that Basel III should collapse the egregious manipulation of the gold market through the use of using futures and unallocated gold as bank reserves.

In May I wrote:

In effect, Basel III, if implemented in its current form, would change the gold market from a speculative one based on perceptions of the efficacy of monetary policy to control real interest rates to one that should force price discovery in an almost purely physical market. As I told my Patrons in May 16th's Market Report video, physical gold will go from being the price taker to the price maker.   


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