-- Posted Wednesday, 27 April 2011 | | Source: GoldSeek.com
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
You know we've been up against all the power and money in the world for a long time, and we never expect sympathy, or even journalism, but an essay posted today at MarketWatch.com, written by its Wall Street columnist, David Weidner, and headlined "Buy Gold," does its best to trivialize what should be a serious subject.
Yes, as Weidner implies, the gold world has its share of eccentrics, paranoids, survivalists, Jew haters, and such. But it also has the most learned, thoughtful, articulate, independent, and decent people in economics. Weidner enjoys ridiculing the former. But does he dare to engage the latter -- and not about the apocalypse, the Illuminati, the Trilateral Commission, and the Freemasons -- but rather about the real issues behind gold, issues like free markets, competitive currencies, surreptitious central bank intervention to defeat markets and extend imperial power, the historic relationship between interest rates and gold, the abuse of central banking for political patronage, and the need for transparent, limited, and democratic government?
If Weidner is ever up for getting serious, GATA would be glad to review its documentation with him (http://www.gata.org/taxonomy/term/21) and suggest a few pointed questions whose simple evasion by central bankers might shock him and become important news. Indeed, gold is trivialized precisely because, if it is taken seriously, what it exposes is so scary.
We'll let you know if we ever hear from Weidner. In the meantime, you can find his clumsy mockery at MarketWatch here:
http://www.marketwatch.com/Story/story/print?guid=678C3684-6F50-11E0-B64...
CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer
Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.
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