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The gold cartel : government intervention in gold, the mega-bubble in paper, and what this means for your future / Dimitri Speck ; translated by Heinz Blasnik.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: German Publisher: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013Description: xix, 302 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781137286420 (cloth)
  • 1137286423 (cloth)
Uniform titles:
  • Geheime Goldpolitik. English
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 332.63
LOC classification:
  • HG293 S741g 2013
Contents:
Why gold? -- The crises of the 1990s -- The strange behaviour of gold during crises -- The strange intraday behaviour of gold -- The first statistical studies -- Statistical proof and dating of gold interventions -- Intraday movements of the gold price 1986-2012 -- Gold is different -- Means of gold market intervention I : sales -- Means of gold intervention II : gold lending -- The gold carry trade -- Coordination of private banks and central banks -- Giving the game away : central bankers are human beings too -- The books are silent -- The miraculous gold multiplication -- How much gold is on loan worldwide? -- Means of gold intervention III : intervention through the futures market -- The gold pool and other gold market interventions before 1993 -- 5 August 1993, 8.27 a.m. EST : the beginning of systematic gold market interventions -- The decisive Fed meeting -- Greenspan ponders gold market interventions -- Phases of gold price suppression -- Shock and awe -- The financial market crisis of 2008 and the Euro crisis of 2011 -- Strong dollar and weak mining stocks -- Interventions in the silver market -- Swapped Bundesbank gold and other mysteries -- Who intervenes? -- The mystery of 18 May 2001, 12.31 -- The effects of gold price suppression -- The wonderful world of bubbles -- Have many mini-bubbles created a mega-bubble? -- Money or credit? -- Possible scenarios for the future -- Back to gold.
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Translation of: Geheime Goldpolitik.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Why gold? -- The crises of the 1990s -- The strange behaviour of gold during crises -- The strange intraday behaviour of gold -- The first statistical studies -- Statistical proof and dating of gold interventions -- Intraday movements of the gold price 1986-2012 -- Gold is different -- Means of gold market intervention I : sales -- Means of gold intervention II : gold lending -- The gold carry trade -- Coordination of private banks and central banks -- Giving the game away : central bankers are human beings too -- The books are silent -- The miraculous gold multiplication -- How much gold is on loan worldwide? -- Means of gold intervention III : intervention through the futures market -- The gold pool and other gold market interventions before 1993 -- 5 August 1993, 8.27 a.m. EST : the beginning of systematic gold market interventions -- The decisive Fed meeting -- Greenspan ponders gold market interventions -- Phases of gold price suppression -- Shock and awe -- The financial market crisis of 2008 and the Euro crisis of 2011 -- Strong dollar and weak mining stocks -- Interventions in the silver market -- Swapped Bundesbank gold and other mysteries -- Who intervenes? -- The mystery of 18 May 2001, 12.31 -- The effects of gold price suppression -- The wonderful world of bubbles -- Have many mini-bubbles created a mega-bubble? -- Money or credit? -- Possible scenarios for the future -- Back to gold.

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